I have parrots in my household. They present a particular challenge, trying to balance my appetite for low frequencies vs. their appreciation of quietude.
My cockatiel is just about bomb-proof. He's used to everything.. I can even use the coffee grinder and he'll walk down my arm and try to 'perch' on the grinder dome while watching the coffee beans inside.
Yuki, my Congo African Grey, is new and getting used to noises. Friday night was my first time testing Yuki's behavior in the presence of moderate hi-fi down below. She passed Level 1 testing (125dB peak in the listening room, bass leakage into the parrot rooms much less than that). I have a Molecam trained on her so I can watch her reactions upstairs as I turned up the music down here. I could see her walking down her perch and standing peering over the edge of the cage to look at the floor below. She seemed curious, but not frightened by the noises, so far. As with Clyde, Yuki will probably get used to the music as I ramp up gradually in subsequent sessions.
