Clyde has always had a thing about hair. He loves to pull it and preen it and toss it around and squeal. He grooms my husband's eyebrows but leaves mine alone. Recently he has begun working on my arm hairs, moles and occasionally freckles. The arm hairs I don't mind so much. He likes to pluck them out. I can spare them and as long as he's happy, I'm happy. However, I really must object to his attempts to remove moles and freckles. That does smart a bit. When I try to explain to him that he really ought to let them be, I get this grumbling kind of low squawk that sounds like cussing. I'm sure this will pass when the weather's cool enough to wear long sleeves again, but really. HOW does one explain to a parrot that a mole or freckle is not a bug or foreign object but actually part of his person and said person would just as soon he wouldn't try to pull them off? He's a very determined parrot.

LOL Buddy is the same watch out for those freckles /moles and scabs on any little scratches ...Funny Sunny (sun conure doesn`t do it ) they both will attempt to preen my eye brows at times though....Don`t you just love the little guys..

hello my jazz is kida like that. hes new to the home and has been preening me from the moment i held him at the Sanctuary. now i have a few facial piercings and he hadnt seemed to care till today, when he started in on my gotee and discovered that daddy has a lip ring OWWWWWWW lol but thats the only one he wants to mess with. he would stop when id say no or move my hand tords him but i guess ill just have to deal besieds id rather that then him pluking yes

Ever since Clyde removed the opal from an earring I was wearing the first week he was here, I remove all jewelry before handling him, even my wedding ring, because he considers anything like that an intruder to be attacked and removed. Thankfully, he gave me back the opal and didn't swallow it, and I'm not willing to risk him swallowing something -- or yanking out an earring. I won't even wear clothes that have decorations on them around him -- like sparkly studs or anything. He goes right for them. He even tries to pull buttons off. If I were you, I'd take off the lip ring before handling your bird, because sooner or later your bird is going to get fascinated by it and refuse to be distracted, and might swallow it or do damage to your lip in trying to get it off. They don't mean any harm -- they're just trying to be helpful by preening you and removing foreign objects for you.

well good thing Clyde gave the opal back. thing is with facial piercings most will start healing shut within a few min. fortunately my ere and eyebrow are "seemless hoops" and the lip screws together vary tite do to the fact that i put a smaler head on it. i need to use 2 set of hemastats to undo it. theres nothing set in them for him to pull out so im not that worryed, unless he can rip them thru the skin there not going enewhere and as far as the pain from him grabing them, i can deal after all i put up with geting them done. but his new thing has peeked my curiosity. Jazz wants to preen inside my ear and i got to wonder if thats bad for him seeing how he could pick up some erewax

well my new quaker salty has taken to preening the dead skin off my face...... when it first happened I was really confused so I looked it up and realised he was just preening me