I don't know what to do...he's driving my family crazyyyyyy! If I'm not holding him or in the same room as him he NEVER STOPS SCREAMING! And I mean NEVER! The only way to stop him (sometimes) is to put him in his cage and cover it...does anyone have any other suggestions? Everyone in my house wants me to get rid of him and of course I refuse, but I need to stop this screaming before he drives me crazy too! Please I really need help! Im desperate!

I have had the same problem, and it is getting better.
As suggested here, the only way is to make him more independent and get him better socialized with the rest of the flock.
I tried the spray bottle technique, but it didn't phaze him... in fact, I think he liked it.
What are the circumstances? How long are you with him/ handling him a day? How long have you had him? And how does he behave with the rest of your family?
Does he play with toys? Getting them to forage is a great distraction, but new ideas are always tricky.
Good luck, and let us know what works and doesn't!

Ugh we're having the same problem lately - it gets worse this time of the year.... I can't tell you what will work for you (he still screams a lot..not as bad but a lot) but I can tell you what did and doesn't work for us. Don't scream or yell back - it doesn't work and if anything makes it worse - or like our lil guy - you'll scream "shut up" one time and then he'll learn the phrase - now he says shut up when something is too loud or he's trying to rest (TV on, conversation, phone call..lol) The water bottle can work sometimes - but we use it less as a punishment and more on a mist so it gets him wet - if he's preening his wet feathers then he screams less. Singing or humming or talking really low so he has to be quiet to hear you works sometimes too. Oh and it's hard but if you're in another room and he wont stop calling for you just get everyone to ignore him, he will stop after a few minutes - or at least Bob does. Don't give him any kind of attention/affection when he's acting that way. Screaming is attention (and at least our lil guy seems to think it's our return flock call because after that he just gets worse....

HTH

My QP used to scream a good bit for a while but he dosent anymore! I just ignored it and went on my way. But I did give him attention and toys all the time anyway. Time I think will sort this out for you. My Sun conure is a bit easlier b/c she busies herself much much better always busy busy so my QP has been a challenge sometimes in that respect.

If he is screaming as a flock call to you all the attention you give him will just encourage the screaming.
If he is bothering your family you might want to set up his cage in a different room until he settles down and adjusts.
This does not mean you ignore him it means that you will have to go in there and spend time with him but also allows peace for the rest of the family when he calls out to you when you are no longer there. Maybe also have family members visit with him too so he accepts them as flock as well for when you decide to move the cage back to the location you had it in before.
Rotate his toys every other day so he has new things to play with when you are not around. Foraging and shredding toys can keep a bird busy for hours. Sometimes I even bunch up plain white paper towels and toss them in a cage and the fid I give them to is a happy camper tearing up that paper towel and with quakers they sometimes try to turn it into string and start weaving on the cage.
Quakers are and will be noisy tho. You cant get them to be quiet all day long. There will be times where he will be practicing his vocals especially as he learns to talk where he will make alot of noise. Mine babbles on all day but he doesnt screech anymore.
Depending on his age your bird also might be experiencing spring mating urges. Mine just went thru that and its a horrible time of year for bird owners for the most part.
Another thing to remember is dont yell back to the bird it will only encourage loudness. Usually when I talk to my bird I talk to him in a soft voice which makes him talk softer too as he is mimicking me.
However if it is interfereing with your familys comfort zone I would encourage you to put the bird in a different room so at least you can close the door if he is too loud.
Good luck and hang in there.

I have had Morgan for 11 years now and we go through this at least once a year. Nothing I did made it get better. I decided along time ago to just deal with it.

Since the day I got him I've been on this forum so I've never screamed back or anything like that b/c I heard that only makes it worse...I just ignore him but it doesn't make any difference...he's in the living room so he's well socialized with the rest of the family but the way he treats them depends on his mood...sometimes he'll let them pick him up and other times they'll just walk by and he has his mouth open ready to bite! Another thing is I've never seen him play with any of his toys! I'll give him paper towels and other things to shred but he'll get bored after 5 minutes...He has shredding toys that he never touches...all he wants is for me to hold him and keep him with me all the time...I don't understand why b/c it's not like I'm here 24 hours a day...the only time he's quiet when I'm not in the room is if he's eating or sleeping...grrr

I have a grouchy neighbor that stomps on the ceiling if Dobby gets to loud so I re-arranged his play area and I also cleaned out a closet and made it his little time out room. So far, this has worked. He still screams but he knows the consequences and he is so calm when he comes out of the time out room.
I found the spray bottle is just too violent a consequence. He stopped taking baths when I used spray therapy but everyone has to find their own method. I have thousands of foraging toys and swings, etc and that doesn't stop it at all. For me, the time out room is great because it gives me a break and calms him down. If you do this, make sure there's nothing dangerous in the closet because your bird will keep busy in the time out room as well. He has a pillow, basket and a couple of cardboard boxes that he can chew on while he's in there. I've had Dobby for almost a year now and this is the only effective deterence I have found and I just can't ignore the screaming because of the neighbors. (this sounds like your situation with your family and if they all do the same consequence with him...it just may work)
We talked before on here about the time out room and whether they like it or not but now I've come to the conclusion that if he likes his time out room...all the better because it still gives me and the neighbors a break.

Does he take baths? Tiki has been a bit louder lately, probably because it is spring, and we have a new canary. But I find that if I give him a bath he is much more quiet, as he is busy preening. I also have a tree stand with a ton of toys and bells on it. I put empty toilet paper roles on some of the branches, and he spends time shredding those. Of course if it is noisy around the house he competes with it, because that is the nature of the beast. If I am sitting quietly reading, and there is no radio on, he rarely makes a noise, except when he is strangling his bell toy How long have you had your quaker? Do your family members do step ups with him? When Tiki gets really noisy and I am not there, someone will pick him up and make him do 5 minutes of step ups and put him back. He is not fond of step ups, so I guess he has figured out that if he gets our attention too much, he will have to do them.

LOL!!! There ya go! work that birdie...one, two...one, two
I need to go do some step ups myself!

I apologize for not having time to read the other responses, but when Buzz was going through this I rearanged the toys in his cage and he was fine. I also put him to bed about an hour early for about two weeks. This helped me be able to keep him, David surely wanted him gone.

Hi Laurenska,

I'm not a regular poster on QP.com, so I'm afraid I don't know anything about your background. How long have you had the little green hooligan? Is he an only bird or do you have others?

If he has formed a bond with you, then it sounds as though he's suffering from separation anxiety – when you leave, he feels abandoned and unsure wthere or not you'll ever come back.

Shouting and squirting won't help, as you've already realised. What you uhave to do is help him to realise that you will always be coming back.

If he's happy when you're in the room with him, then put him in his cage and get him comfortable. Talk to him all the time. Then, keep talking, but leave the room. Stand outside the door, talking all the time so that he can still hear you, and after just two minutes, go back into the room.

Praise him and give him a treat – especially if he didn't make too much noise while you were out of the room.

Then repeat the process, but this time, stay outside for three minutes before coming back in and making a fuss of him. You get the picture... You gradually extend the periods that you are out of the room until he's happy that, even though you're not there, you will always come back to him!

It's not a quick fix, unfortunately, but correcting bad behaviour in our feathery friends seldom is.

Hope that helps!

all my birds are loud, but my quaker came as a screamer. I put several bird feeders at the back of our property. spooky has a view of the feeder and is able to hear the songbirds. It has reduced the screams at least 30 percent. I also play a song bird cd for her when she starts acting up. she likes imitating some of the chirps and i think that has remodelled more appropriate vocalizations. maybe it will work for your bird. you used to be able to get the cd's at target awhile back. good luck