How to Tame a Parrot in Minecraft

Parrots are easily one of the most charming and colorful companions in Minecraft. Although they don’t help you fight mobs or gather resources, the parrots bring plenty of personality to your adventures. So, if you’re wondering how to tame a parrot in Minecraft, check this guide to learn its favorite foods and all parrots’ hidden tricks as well.

Items Required to Tame a Parrot in Minecraft

Before learning how to tame a parrot in Minecraft, you must first bring the right seeds for the friendly birdie. Moreover, locating the parrots is not as hard as you’re guessing. You can spot them in any jungle biome in Minecraft, such as the regular jungle, bamboo jungle, and sparse jungle.

Once you get them, here are the items that the parrots eat and help in taming them:

• Wheat Seeds
• Pumpkin Seeds
• Melon Seeds
• Beetroot Seeds
• Torchflower Seeds
• Pitcher Pods

Each time you feed the seeds, there’s a 10% chance for the parrot to get tamed. So, consider going to the jungle with at least a stack of 10 such seeds.

How to Tame a Parrot in Minecraft: Step-by-Step Instructions

Once you have the seeds with you and you’re present at the right location, here comes the fun part where you chase the parrot and offer them the food. Given below are the steps that you must follow to learn how to tame a parrot in Minecraft:

• Search through the jungle or bamboo jungle to find this Minecraft mob resting nearby.
• Hold the seed in your hand and walk slowly to the parrot to prevent it from flying away.
• Press the interaction key (Right-click on PC), aiming at the parrot with the seed in your hand, in order to tame it.
• Keep repeating the process of feeding the parrot until red hearts appear on top of its head.

Once the red hearts appear, congrats, your parrot is tamed.

How to Interact with the Parrot in Minecraft

Learning how to tame a parrot in Minecraft is just the beginning of your great adventures with a friendly birdie on your shoulders. Yes, you can make parrots sit on your shoulders, and it can even mimic the nearby mob sounds. So, let’s check out all the unique behaviors of a parrot in Minecraft:

Get a Parrot on Your Shoulder

One of the cutest features after taming a parrot is that letter your bird ride on your shoulder. Unlike other pets, such as the Minecraft wolves or cats, they don’t require a special command. Simply walk near the tamed parrot when it is not sitting to get it to sit on your shoulder.

While walking through the worlds, the parrot looks wherever you look, making it one of the most iconic companion moments in the game.

Eventually, you might want your friend to hop off when you’re travelling through the Nether Portal or heading to more dangerous adventures. So, a parrot will leave your shoulder when you do the following:

• Take damage
• Enter water
• Touch powder snow
• Sleep in a bed
• Fly with an Elytra
• Fall from a high ledge
• Land on a block that’s noticeably higher
• Enter Creative Mode flying

Cookies are Toxic to Parrots

This is one of the hidden parrot mechanics in Minecraft where feeding the parrot a cookie can kill it (instantly in Java) or poison it fatally (in Bedrock).

Cookies are made from chocolate, and you can get that from growing cocoa beans in Minecraft. Therefore, cookies being toxic to parrots is a hidden reference in the game that chocolate is toxic to real-world parrots.

So, if you have spent time learning how to tame a parrot in Minecraft, the last thing you’ll be doing is feeding the bird a cookie.

Mimic Monster Sounds

A surprisingly useful ability of parrots is that they imitate the sounds of a nearby mob. So, depending on the edition you’re playing, they can emit the sounds of Creepers, Zombies, Skeletons, Endermen, Warden, Blaze, Ghast, Pillagers, Piglins, and many more.

As you have guessed, this feature can help you as a warning sign to note that hostile mobs and danger are nearby while exploring the world.

Parrots Can Dance

Another best feature for this cute little mob is that they can dance. Place a Jukebox near your parrot, insert any Minecraft music disc, and the parrot will immediately start bobbing its head and move rhythmically until the music stops.

Whether it is perched on a tree or it is sitting on your shoulder, if music reaches its ears, the parrot is dancing its heart out.

So, that completes the guide on how to tame a parrot in Minecraft. You can check out our list of best Minecraft seeds or Minecraft jungle seeds to find these parrots easily. So, do you have a parrot in your pet collection yet? Tell us in the comments below.