Caique

Who a Caique suits

Right for people with hours to spend playing and a tolerance for a beak that tests everything, including you. It is the funniest bird here by some distance. Anyone wanting a calm perch companion has picked a small athlete with a stubborn streak instead.

How to build the bond: Wrestle with toys, not fingers — a Caique bonds through big play with clear rules. That sits on top of how the species works generally: Bond through rhythm — morning greetings, call-and-response, meals in company. To a bird, being answered is being loved.

The Caique against the other nineteen

Lined up stillest to liveliest, the Caique is 18th of the twenty bird breeds here, one of only 4 to reach the high-energy band — this is the end of the range where an under-occupied animal stops being a companion and becomes a problem to solve.

Ordered by how near each one sits to the Caique on the energy axis, then by the notes they have in common. Every bird breed reads this table from its own position, so no two of the twenty are ordered alike.

The birth years a Caique sits easiest with

This half of the reading is the species rather than the breed — every bird meets a given birth year the same way. These are the communities that sit easiest with one:

• Whale Spirit Guardian—1948,1960,1972,1984and later
• Monkey Spirit Guardian—1956,1968,1980,1992and later
• Eagle Spirit Guardian—1957,1969,1981,1993and later
• Elephant Spirit Guardian—1959,1971,1983,1995and later

A birth year outside that list is not a warning — it is the half of the reading this page cannot settle on its own. Seat the pair on the board and it reads the rest. What the bird is like as a companion applies to the Caique as much as to the other nineteen.

A pairing that involves an animal returns a word rather than a percentage. The board's deepest layer reads two inner selves against each other and an animal cannot hold one, so the result is described rather than scored — what is read here is the keeper's birth year against the species, and the breed decides everything about living with it day to day. An animal does get a chart of its own once its birth hour is known, one rung further up.

Frequently asked

What is a Caique like to live with?

The clown prince of parrots — a Caique hops, wrestles, surfs on its back, and plays harder than any bird its size. All that joy comes with a stubborn streak and a strong beak. On the energy axis this catalogue uses, the Caique reads as high-energy — 18th of the twenty bird breeds here when they are lined up stillest to liveliest.

Who is a Caique a good match for?

Right for people with hours to spend playing and a tolerance for a beak that tests everything, including you. It is the funniest bird here by some distance. Anyone wanting a calm perch companion has picked a small athlete with a stubborn streak instead.

How do you bond with a Caique?

Wrestle with toys, not fingers — a Caique bonds through big play with clear rules. That sits on top of how the species works generally: Bond through rhythm — morning greetings, call-and-response, meals in company. To a bird, being answered is being loved. The thing that most reliably undoes it — Silence is the one cruelty — a bird left out of the conversation plucks the loneliness into its feathers.

Which bird breeds are most like a Caique?

Amazon Parrot, Cockatoo, Macaw — nearest first, measured on energy band and shared traits. At the other end of the same twenty sits the Diamond Dove, opposite ends. Every one of the nineteen is ranked against the Caique further up this page.