Beak battles?

Question
About a week ago I got a budgie to keep my cockatiel company because I will be going to work and not be home all day anymore, as it had been for the full time I have had the 'tiel. Shockingly the budgie was very very tame, for having come from Petco. He now has his door open all day and prefers to come out and sit on the play gym with the cockatiel. After the first couple days of feeling each other out, they get along generally well, but every now and then they will have a disagreement and will start yelling loudly at each other and fighting briefly with their beaks. It only lasts a couple seconds and they always break it up. I am wondering if there is a way I could/should discourage this behavior, or if this is normal bird argument behavior. They do not appear to be biting each other and they are both very young. The cockatiel is roughly 4 months and the budgie was an '08 hatch.

Answer
Hello Loup,

Do you keep the two birds in the same cage? How long have they been with each other? If they generally get along, i would say they are ok. I have budgies and they love to hang out with my sun conure. They play all day long. But the thing is they are not kept in the same cage. I know my conure would never hurt the budgies, but if they ever got into a serious fight the conure would obviously win. What i am trying to say is that, maybe now when they are both babies they don't hurt each other, but if they seriously got in a fight, the tiel would win. If they are in the same cage together, make sure it is big enough for them both to have their own space. Keep an eye on them while you are home and monitor how they get along with each other. There isn't really away to "teach" the birds not to fight. Birds are not like children and don't really learn from their mistakes. Birds don't take to "punishment" well.

Hope this helped!

Calyopea

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