herki has been the same. we try to let him out of his cage when we take out all the other birds (so he basically has the entire bird room to roam around). he has really made a connection with our own amazon, pico. whenever we take pico out of his cage, herki goes into a frenzy and calls out to pico.

if pico is in the room, he feeds off of pico's emotions and acts accordingly. such as, pico really likes my husband and "tolerates" me, but when i enter the room, pico has a thing where he will drop whatever he is doing, run down to the bottom of the cage and charge at the box at the bottom of his cage, biting it up sometimes quite forcefully. i think this is due to the fact that he doesn't like me there. (i have been working on this by just walking into the room and walking back out. and then spending a little more time in there until pico starts to move and i leave. but, well, their cage bottoms need to be cleaned every evening, so this can't be solved at once.) and herki picks up on that, so when i go over to his cage to clean it, he runs to the bottom of his cage and tries to get a bite of my fingers. i usually just ignore his movements. sometimes i stop and talk to him softly. sometimes he will fall into a trance-like state where i can stroke his toes and he'll just stay in place and not move or make a sound until i've stopped.

Herki has decided that he now likes my husband...it was definitely not an easy thing (we've had him for about 6 months now) but my husband did make a point to spend some quality time with him and it has paid off. herki allows him to scratch on TOP of his wing and UNDER it. it is very cute! herki just stands there and almost falls into a trance.

Funny thing is that, while Herki doesn't honor me with this act, i can enter his room (after allowing him out of his cage) and have him step up onto a stick and transport him to his cage or wherever (of course he sometimes bites all over the stick out of frustration) without trying to launch himself at me. BUT, if my husband tries this, herki would still try to launch himself at him.

anyways, i think progess is still being done. i believe that most of this aggression comes from fear because he has a blind side, and because he turns his head this way and that so quickly, its difficult to stay in his field of vision. we just have to move calmly and slowly so that he can keep his overview of everything in the room.