THIS is what Max-bird sounds like at night, right after he gets covered up for bed.

He spent  4 years, before we just got him, in the home of a dog-trainer, who also fosters puppies. He learned to cry like one of them.

The first night he did this, he faked Steve out: Steve was all worried and wanted to know what was wrong with the poor new birdie, so there he was, on his hands and knees in front of the cage, lifting the cover... and there is Max, calmly standing on his perch... whining like a puppy.  

Ceinan Jamnik-Kimbrough