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.