Minecraft:Parrot

A parrot is a Minecraft:tameable Minecraft:passive mob that spawns in jungle Minecraft:biomes. Parrots imitate Minecraft:sounds of nearby Minecraft:monsters and can perch on the Minecraft:player's shoulders.

Spawning

Parrots naturally spawn in groups of 1–2 in Minecraft:jungles, Minecraft:bamboo jungles, and Minecraft:sparse junglesTemplate:Only above Minecraft:logs, Minecraft:leaves, Minecraft:grass blocks, or Minecraft:air.

Unlike most passive mobs, parrots cannot be Minecraft:bred.

Drops

On death

Template:DropTable Template:Xp Minecraft:experience orbs are dropped when parrots are killed by a player or a tamed Minecraft:wolf.

Behavior

Parrots fly around idly under normal circumstances, landing frequently to rest.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> They take interest in any nearby Minecraft:mobs, including those that are hostile to them, and follow them around closely. When attacked, they rapidly fly upward several blocks to flee.

Parrots also flap their wings to Minecraft:swim, slow their falls, and prevent Minecraft:fall damage.

Parrots can be Minecraft:tamed by feeding them Minecraft:wheat seeds, Minecraft:melon seeds, Minecraft:pumpkin seeds, Minecraft:beetroot seeds, Minecraft:torchflower seeds, or pitcher pods. Each item fed has a Template:Frac chance of successfully taming them. Once tamed, Template:Control with a parrot makes it sit down and stand up.

Unless told to sit, a tamed parrot follows the Minecraft:player and teleports if there is a distance of 12 blocks between it and the player.

A Minecraft:death message is displayed to a parrot's owner upon its death.

Template:IN, attempting to feed a parrot a Minecraft:cookie deals Template:^ damage to it, emitting Minecraft:Poison particles as it dies. Template:IN, attempting to feed a parrot a cookie does not instantly kill it, but Minecraft:Fatal Poison is emitted instead. This is a reference to the fact that chocolate is toxic to parrots.

Unlike most Minecraft:animal mobs, parrots cannot Minecraft:breed and baby parrots do not exist.

Sitting on a shoulder

File:Parrot Shoulder.png

A player with a parrot on their shoulder.

A tamed parrot on the ground can be made to perch on its Minecraft:player's shoulder by moving through the parrot. On its own, a tamed parrot can also fly to and perch on the player's shoulder, unless it has been told to sit. A player can have one parrot on each shoulder. Parrots always prefer a player's left shoulder first, if it is empty.

A parrot dismounts its player when the player:

• Lands on a higher surface (Template:Frac block up or higher)
• drops off a ledge of higher than Template:Frac of a block
• takes damage
• touches Minecraft:water
• touches Minecraft:powder snow
• is in creative Minecraft:flying mode
• starts gliding with an Minecraft:elytra<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• sleeps on a Minecraft:bed
• submerges the player's head in Minecraft:lava (the parrot dismounts and burns even if the player has Minecraft:Fire Resistance)

Parrots on a shoulder always look in the same direction the player's head is looking.

A parrot riding on an Minecraft:entity cannot take any Minecraft:damage (except Minecraft:void and Template:Cmd).Template:Only

But it may get hurt as soon as it dismounts, as when dismounting a player submerged in Minecraft:lava.

A parrot sitting on the shoulder appears in the Minecraft:inventory interface.

Template:IN, a parrot sitting on a shoulder prevents the player from entering a Minecraft:nether portal.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

If a player uses an Minecraft:ender pearl while parrots are on their shoulder, the parrots teleport with the player.

Imitating sounds

Parrots imitate the idle Minecraft:sounds of nearby Minecraft:monsters and Template:In, a few neutral Minecraft:animals as well; they have a detection range of 20 blocks. The sound produced by the parrots is the same sound as the mob being mimicked at a higher pitch, the same pitch as the mob's baby variant. Occasionally, a parrot may imitate sounds of mobs that are not in the area.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Template:IN, they can also imitate neutral mobs such as Minecraft:endermen, Minecraft:polar bears, Minecraft:wolves and Minecraft:zombified piglins. Template:IN, they can also imitate Minecraft:piglins, Minecraft:hoglins and Minecraft:piglin brutes.

Template:IN, parrots attempt to imitate Minecraft:happy ghasts, but without using the corresponding sound event.

Parrots don't imitate the sounds of Minecraft:skeleton horses.<ref name="skelly">Template:Bug</ref>

Mobs that are imitated by parrots:

Dancing

Parrots dance near a Minecraft:jukebox if a Minecraft:music disc is inside it. Parrots even have the ability to dance while on a Minecraft:player's shoulder.Template:Only This is a reference to the Party Parrot meme.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> They stop dancing when the track ends.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

The dancing radius is 3 blocks from the jukebox. If they dance and then fly beyond this radius, they stop dancing. A parrot does not dance if the music disc was inserted prior to it spawning, dismounting, or being within the 3 blocks range.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Sounds

Generic

Template:JE: Template:SoundTable

Template:BE: Template:SoundTable

Imitations

Note that these are the original mob sounds, and not the pitched up ones heard from parrots in-game.
When making their ambient sound, parrots have a chance to trigger a random sound from this list if the Minecraft:difficulty is not Peaceful.

Data values

ID

Template:Edition: Template:ID table

Template:Edition: Template:ID table

Entity data

Parrots have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Template:El: Template:Main

<section begin="entity data" />

• Template:Nbt Entity data
  • Template:Nbt inherit/tameable
  • Template:Nbt inherit/entity
  • Template:Nbt inherit/mob
  • Template:Nbt: Specifies the color variant of the parrot, default is 0. Represents the Template:DCL component.

Variant	Numerical ID	Identifier
File:Red Parrot.png Red	0	red_blue
File:Blue Parrot.png Blue	1	blue
File:Green Parrot.png Green	2	green
File:Cyan Parrot.png Cyan	3	yellow_blue
File:Gray Parrot.png Gray	4	gray

<section end="entity data" />

When a parrot is resting on the player's shoulder, it ceases to be a distinct entity and its entity data is stored in the player's ShoulderEntityLeft or ShoulderEntityRight NBT. See also Minecraft:Player.dat format.

Template:El:

See Minecraft:Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Achievements that apply to all mobs: Template:Collapse

Advancements

Advancements that apply to all mobs: Template:Collapse

History

Trivia

• Red parrots are based on the real-life Template:W "with a little Minecraft twist".<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> Similarly, blue parrots are based on Template:W, cyan parrots are based on Template:W, green parrots are based on Template:W,<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> and gray parrots are based on Template:W.
• The Minecraft:Minecraft team uses various party parrot emojis when communicating with each other on discord.<ref>"Really. We have over 20 different party parrot emojis. :D" – HelenAngel, April 5, 2017</ref>
• The Minecraft:advancement obtained for breeding two animals is called "The Parrots and the Bats", even though neither parrots nor bats can breed.
• The parrot's dancing animation is based on the party parrot emojis, that are in turn, based on the kākāpō.
• The "idle6" sound of the parrot is the English word "hello".<ref>Template:Ytl</ref>

File:Parrot idle6.ogg

• The artist and modeller for parrots, Minecraft:RazzleberryFox, originally designed ten parrots.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
  • Sixteen parrots were supposed to be concepted representing one of each Minecraft:dye.<ref>Template:Ytl</ref>

Gallery

Renders

Sitting

• A sitting red parrot.
  A sitting red parrot.
• A sitting blue parrot.
  A sitting blue parrot.
• A sitting green parrot.
  A sitting green parrot.
• A sitting cyan parrot.
  A sitting cyan parrot.
• A sitting gray parrot.
  A sitting gray parrot.

Dancing

• A dancing red parrot.
  A dancing red parrot.
• A dancing blue parrot.
  A dancing blue parrot.
• A dancing green parrot.
  A dancing green parrot.
• A dancing cyan parrot.
  A dancing cyan parrot.
• A dancing gray parrot.
  A dancing gray parrot.
• A dancing parrot in Minecraft:17w14a.
  A dancing parrot in Minecraft:17w14a.

Sitting on the player

• Minecraft:Alex with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  Minecraft:Alex with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
• Alex with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
  Alex with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
• Alex with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
  Alex with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
• Alex with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
  Alex with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
• Alex with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
  Alex with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
• Minecraft:Ari with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  Minecraft:Ari with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
• Ari with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
  Ari with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
• Ari with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
  Ari with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
• Ari with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
  Ari with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
• Ari with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
  Ari with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
• Minecraft:Efe with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  Minecraft:Efe with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
• Efe with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
  Efe with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
• Efe with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
  Efe with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
• Efe with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
  Efe with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
• Efe with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
  Efe with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
• Minecraft:Kai with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  Minecraft:Kai with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
• Kai with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
  Kai with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
• Kai with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
  Kai with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
• Kai with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
  Kai with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
• Kai with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
  Kai with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
• Minecraft:Makena with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  Minecraft:Makena with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
• Makena with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
  Makena with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
• Makena with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
  Makena with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
• Makena with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
  Makena with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
• Makena with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
  Makena with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
• Minecraft:Noor with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  Minecraft:Noor with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
• Noor with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
  Noor with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
• Noor with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
  Noor with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
• Noor with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
  Noor with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
• Noor with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
  Noor with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
• Minecraft:Steve with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  Minecraft:Steve with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
• Steve with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
  Steve with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
• Steve with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
  Steve with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
• Steve with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
  Steve with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
• Steve with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
  Steve with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
• Minecraft:Sunny with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  Minecraft:Sunny with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
• Sunny with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
  Sunny with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
• Sunny with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
  Sunny with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
• Sunny with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
  Sunny with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
• Sunny with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
  Sunny with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
• Minecraft:Zuri with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  Minecraft:Zuri with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
• Zuri with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
  Zuri with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.
• Zuri with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
  Zuri with a green parrot on their left shoulder.
• Zuri with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
  Zuri with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.
• Zuri with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.
  Zuri with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.

Screenshots

• The first image of parrots, tweeted by Minecraft:Maria Lemón.
  The first image of parrots, tweeted by Minecraft:Maria Lemón.
• Another image of parrots tweeted by Minecraft:Maria Lemón.
  Another image of parrots tweeted by Minecraft:Maria Lemón.
• Parrots riding on the shoulders of Steve, "the parrot king", tweeted by Minecraft:Maria Lemón.
  Parrots riding on the shoulders of Steve, "the parrot king", tweeted by Minecraft:Maria Lemón.
• Note how the parrots crowd around the Minecraft:villager in a tight circle.
  Note how the parrots crowd around the Minecraft:villager in a tight circle.
• Parrots also crowd around hostile Minecraft:mobs, such as Minecraft:creepers.
  Parrots also crowd around hostile Minecraft:mobs, such as Minecraft:creepers.
• Minecraft:Poison Minecraft:particles appear if the Minecraft:player feeds Minecraft:cookies to parrots.
  Minecraft:Poison Minecraft:particles appear if the Minecraft:player feeds Minecraft:cookies to parrots.
• Parrots in Bedrock Edition.
  Parrots in Bedrock Edition.
• A parrot seen through a spyglass.
  A parrot seen through a spyglass.
• A gif of all parrot faces.
  A gif of all parrot faces.

Textures

• Red parrot texture file.
  Red parrot texture file.
• Blue parrot texture file.
  Blue parrot texture file.
• Green parrot texture file.
  Green parrot texture file.
• Cyan parrot texture file.
  Cyan parrot texture file.
• Gray parrot texture file.
  Gray parrot texture file.

In other media

• Parrots as shown in the Minecraft:World of Color Update artwork.
  Parrots as shown in the Minecraft:World of Color Update artwork.
• Artwork of a parrot.
  Artwork of a parrot.
• Ditto but cut-out
  Ditto but cut-out
• A Parrot in promotional artwork for the first Minecraft:Caves & Cliffs update.
  A Parrot in promotional artwork for the first Minecraft:Caves & Cliffs update.
• Parrots in official artwork.
  Parrots in official artwork.
• Animated parrot sticker from an official Minecraft:Wild Update stickerpack.
  Animated parrot sticker from an official Minecraft:Wild Update stickerpack.
• Artwork of parrots with Minecraft:redstone.
  Artwork of parrots with Minecraft:redstone.
• Artwork of every parrot, used for the 15th anniversary of Minecraft.
  Artwork of every parrot, used for the 15th anniversary of Minecraft.
• Artwork of a red parrot with a Minecraft:turtle.
  Artwork of a red parrot with a Minecraft:turtle.
• Minecraft:Ari flying with several parrots.
  Minecraft:Ari flying with several parrots.
• Pixel artwork of Minecraft:Noor fishing with several parrots.
  Pixel artwork of Minecraft:Noor fishing with several parrots.
• A Minecraft:Lego Minecraft parrot.
  A Minecraft:Lego Minecraft parrot.
• A lego Minecraft cyan parrot.
  A lego Minecraft cyan parrot.
• A Lego Minecraft green parrot.
  A Lego Minecraft green parrot.
• A Template:MCD as it appears Template:In
  A Template:MCD as it appears Template:In
• A parrot as it appears in Template:WSC
  A parrot as it appears in Template:WSC

External links

• Template:Mcnet