Parrot

For the mob in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Parrot.

Parrot

Health points	6
Behavior	Passive
Classification	Animal
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Height: 0.9 Blocks Width: 0.5 Blocks In Bedrock Edition: Height: 1.0 Blocks Width: 0.5 Blocks
Spawn	Jungle Bamboo Jungle Sparse Jungle‌
Usable items	Wheat Seeds Beetroot Seeds Melon Seeds Pumpkin Seeds Cookie Lead

Parrots are rare tameable mobs found in jungles. Parrots can imitate sounds of nearby hostile mobs and can perch on the player's shoulders.

Spawning

Parrots rarely spawn, with a 0.2 chance in jungle biomes. They can be found in groups of 1–2 at Y-level 70 or above. They spawn only on logs, leaves and grass blocks.

Drops

When a parrot is killed, it drops:

• 1-2feathers. The maximum is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a range of 1–5 with Looting III.
• 1–3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior

Parrots flying through the jungle.

Movement

Parrots are passive. They can fly, and usually fly upward if struck. They fly under normal conditions, but they can tire and return to the ground.

Parrots crowd and settle around other nearby mobs, including neutral and hostile mobs.

When in water, a parrot swims by flapping its wings.

Like chickens, parrots flap their wings and fall slowly, preventing fall damage.

Taming

Parrots can be tamed by feeding them wheat seeds, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, or beetroot seeds, with ¹⁄₁₀ chance of success. Once tamed, interacting with a parrot makes it sit down and stand up.

Like tamed wolves and cats, a tamed parrot follows the player unless told to sit, and may teleport if there is a sufficient distance between them and the player. Like all tamed animals upon death, a death message is displayed to its owner.

Parrot teleportation is completely silent, which is intentional.

Unlike most animals, parrots have no baby form, and cannot be bred.

Perching on shoulders

A tamed parrot on the ground can be made to perch on its 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:

• does not land on a high-enough surface (¹⁄₂ block up or higher)
• drops off a ledge of higher than ³⁄₄ of a block
• takes damage
• submerges the player's feet into the water of any height
• starts drowning
• sleeps on a bed
• submerges the player's head in lava (the parrot dismounts and burns even if the player has Fire Resistance)

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

A parrot on a shoulder cannot take any damage but may get hurt as soon as it dismounts, as when dismounting a player submerged in lava.

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

In Bedrock Edition, a parrot sitting on a shoulder prevents the player from entering a Nether portal.

Imitating sounds

Parrots imitate the idle sounds of nearby hostile and certain neutral mobs (including the hiss of creepers for example); they have a detection range of 20 blocks (cubical). The sound produced by the parrots is simply the same sound as the mob being mimicked at a higher pitch. Occasionally, a parrot may imitate sounds of mobs that are not in the area.

Dancing

Dancing parrots

Parrots dance near a jukebox if a music disc is inside it. Parrots even have the ability to dance while on a player's shoulder.‌ This is a reference to the Party Parrot meme. The game does not seem to have any real way to determine when the music ends, though; as long as the disc remains in the jukebox, the parrot continues dancing even after the music stops.

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.

Cookies

In Java Edition, attempting to feed a parrot a cookie instantly kills it, emitting Poison particles as it dies. In Bedrock Edition, feeding a cookie to a parrot gives it fatal poison instead. This is a reference to the fact that chocolate is toxic to parrots.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:
Parrots use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Parrot talks	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	entity.parrot.ambient	subtitles.entity.parrot.ambient	0.7	1.0	16
	Parrot dies	Friendly Creatures	When a parrot dies	entity.parrot.death	subtitles.entity.parrot.death	1.0	0.9 / 0.7	16
	Parrot eats	Friendly Creatures	When a parrot eats a non-cookie item	entity.parrot.eat	subtitles.entity.parrot.eats	1.0	1.0	16
	Parrot flutters	Friendly Creatures	While a parrot is flying	entity.parrot.fly	subtitles.entity.parrot.fly	1.0	1.0	16
	Parrot hurts	Friendly Creatures	When a parrot is damaged	entity.parrot.hurt	subtitles.entity.parrot.hurts	1.0	0.8 / 0.9	16
	None	Friendly Creatures	While a parrot is walking	entity.parrot.step	None	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	mob.parrot.idle	0.7	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When a parrot dies	mob.parrot.death	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a parrot eats an item	mob.parrot.eat	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	While a parrot is flying	mob.parrot.fly	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When a parrot is damaged	mob.parrot.hurt	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Friendly Creatures	While a parrot is walking	mob.parrot.step	1.0	0.8-1.2

Mob imitations

Note that these are the original mob sounds, and not the pitched up ones heard from parrots in-game. Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Parrot breathes	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a blaze	entity.parrot.imitate.blaze	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.blaze	0.4	1.8	16
	Parrot hisses	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a creeper	entity.parrot.imitate.creeper	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.creeper	0.6	1.8	16
	Parrot gurgles	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a drowned	entity.parrot.imitate.drowned	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.drowned	0.6	1.8	16
	Parrot flaps	Friendly Creatures	When imitating an elder guardian	entity.parrot.imitate.elder_guardian	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.elder_guardian	0.7	1.8	16
	Parrot roars	Friendly Creatures	When imitating an ender dragon	entity.parrot.imitate.ender_dragon	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.ender_dragon	0.2	1.8	16
	Parrot scuttles	Friendly Creatures	When imitating an endermite	entity.parrot.imitate.endermite	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.endermite	0.7	1.8	16
	Parrot murmurs	Friendly Creatures	When imitating an evoker	entity.parrot.imitate.evoker	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.evoker	0.6	1.8	16
	Parrot cries	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a ghast	entity.parrot.imitate.ghast	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.ghast	0.7	1.8	16
	Parrot moans	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a guardian	entity.parrot.imitate.guardian	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.guardian	0.4	1.8	16
	Parrot growls	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a hoglin	entity.parrot.imitate.hoglin	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.hoglin	0.6	1.9	16
	Parrot groans	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a husk	entity.parrot.imitate.husk	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.husk	0.6	1.8	16
	Parrot murmurs	Friendly Creatures	When imitating an illusioner	entity.parrot.imitate.illusioner	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.illusioner	0.7	1.8	16
	Parrot squishes	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a magma cube	entity.parrot.imitate.magma_cube	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.magma_cube	0.6	1.8	16
	Parrot screeches	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a phantom	entity.parrot.imitate.phantom	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.phantom	0.6	1.7	16
	Parrot snorts	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a piglin	entity.parrot.imitate.piglin	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.piglin	0.6	1.8	16
	Parrot snorts	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a piglin brute	entity.parrot.imitate.piglin_brute	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.piglin_brute	0.6	1.8	16
	Parrot murmurs	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a pillager	entity.parrot.imitate.pillager	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.pillager	0.4	1.8	16
	Parrot grunts	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a ravager	entity.parrot.imitate.ravager	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.ravager	0.2	1.8	16
	Parrot lurks	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a shulker	entity.parrot.imitate.shulker	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.shulker	0.4	1.7	16
	Parrot hisses	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a silverfish	entity.parrot.imitate.silverfish	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.silverfish	0.7	1.8	16
	Parrot rattles	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a skeleton	entity.parrot.imitate.skeleton	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.skeleton	1.0	1.7	16
	Parrot squishes	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a slime	entity.parrot.imitate.slime	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.slime	0.6	1.8	16
	Parrot hisses	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a spider or cave spider	entity.parrot.imitate.spider	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.spider	0.6	1.8	16
	Parrot rattles	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a stray	entity.parrot.imitate.stray	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.stray	0.6	1.6	16
	Parrot vexes	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a vex	entity.parrot.imitate.vex	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.vex	0.8	1.6	16
	Parrot mutters	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a vindicator	entity.parrot.imitate.vindicator	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.vindicator	0.6	1.7	16
	Parrot whines	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a warden	entity.parrot.imitate.warden	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.warden	0.8	2.0	16
	Parrot giggles	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a witch	entity.parrot.imitate.witch	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.witch	0.5	1.8	16
	Parrot angers	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a wither	entity.parrot.imitate.wither	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.wither	0.2	1.8	16
	Parrot rattles	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a wither skeleton	entity.parrot.imitate.wither_skeleton	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.wither_skeleton	0.7	1.8	16
	Parrot growls	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a zoglin	entity.parrot.imitate.zoglin	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.zoglin	0.6	1.9	16
	Parrot groans	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a zombie	entity.parrot.imitate.zombie	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.zombie	0.6	1.8	16
	Parrot groans	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a zombie villager	entity.parrot.imitate.zombie_villager	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.zombie_villager	0.6	1.8	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
None	None	When imitating a blaze	mob.blaze.ambient	0.4	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a cave spider	mob.spider.say	0.6	1.8
?	Blocks	When imitating a creeper	random.fuse	0.6	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating an elder guardian	mob.guardian.land_idle	0.7	1.7
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating an ender dragon	mob.enderdragon.growl	1.6	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating an enderman	mob.endermen.idle	0.5	1.7
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating an endermite	mob.endermite.say	0.7	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating an evoker	mob.evocation_illager.ambient	0.6	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a ghast	mob.ghast.moan	0.35	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a husk	mob.husk.ambient	0.6	1.8
None	None	Unused sound event	mob.illusion_illager.ambient	0.7	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a magma cube	mob.magmacube.big	0.6	1.8
?	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a panda	mob.panda.idle	0.7	0.8
?	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a polar bear	mob.polarbear.idle	0.7	0.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a shulker	mob.shulker.ambient	0.4	1.7
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a silverfish	mob.silverfish.say	0.7	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a skeleton	mob.skeleton.say	1.0	1.7
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a slime	mob.slime.big	0.6	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a spider	mob.spider.say	0.6	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a stray	mob.stray.ambient	0.6	1.6
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a vex	mob.vex.ambient	0.8	1.6
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a vindicator	mob.vindicator.idle	0.6	1.7
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a warden	mob.warden.clicking	0.8	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a witch	mob.witch.ambient	0.5	varies
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a wither	mob.wither.ambient	0.2	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a wither skeleton	mob.skeleton.say	0.7	1.8
?	Friendly Creatures	When imitating a wolf	mob.wolf.bark	0.6	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a zombie	mob.zombie.say	0.6	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a drowned	mob.zombie.say	0.6	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a zombified piglin	mob.zombiepig.zpig	0.4	1.8
?	Hostile Creatures	When imitating a zombie villager	mob.zombie_villager.say	0.6	1.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Parrot	parrot	entity.minecraft.parrot

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Parrot	parrot	30	entity.parrot.name

Entity data

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

Java Edition:

Main article: Entity format

• Entity data
  • Additional fields for mobs that can be tamed by players
  • Tags common to all entities
  • Tags common to all mobs
  •  Variant: Specifies the color variant of the parrot, default is 0.

Parrot color

Main article: Parrot/DV

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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 Player.dat format.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Is It a Bird?	Look at a parrot through a spyglass	Adventure	—	adventure/spyglass_at_parrot
	Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Husbandry	Tame one of these tameable mobs: Cat Donkey Horse Llama Mule Parrot Trader Llama Wolf	husbandry/tame_an_animal

History

March 23, 2017					Maria Lemón tweets that her new mob, created with the help of RazzleberryFox, will be showcased in the next snapshot. "It's flytastic!"
					Later the same day, she revealed that the new mob will be parrots.
March 26, 2017					Maria reveals that parrots can copy the sounds of other mobs around it.
					Later the same day, she tweets an image of Steve "the parrot king" carrying parrots on his shoulder.
March 28, 2017					Maria tweets another image of parrots, showcasing their ability to fly and slowly drift downward.
March 30, 2017					Shortly before the snapshot was released, Maria revealed that parrots are attracted to cookies. This is a reference to the popular phrase "Polly wants a cracker". In real life, parrots should not be fed chocolate chip cookies, as chocolate is toxic to parrots.
Java Edition
1.12		17w13a			Added parrots.
		17w13b			Added gray-yellow parrot.
		17w14a			The right-click action has been changed: right-clicking on a tamed parrot now tells it to sit.
					Having a parrot sit on the player's shoulders now require the player to walk through the parrot.
					Parrots now dance and change colors if music is playing on a nearby jukebox.
					Parrots now make sounds when sitting on the player's shoulders.
		17w15a			Parrots no longer change colors while dancing.
		pre3			Parrots are now tamed with seeds, instead of cookies, after a post on Reddit.
					Attempting to feed cookies to a parrot now instantly kills the parrot, causing it to emit poison particles. In an e-mail to Motherboard, Jens Bergensten explained: "Our reasoning for originally using cookies was twofold; it gave cookies a reason to exist within Minecraft, and it was a subtle reference to the Nirvana song 'Polly.' However, we didn't consider what the chocolate ingredient would mean to real life parrots!"
1.13		18w19a			Parrots now imitate phantoms and drowned.
1.14		19w11a			Parrots can now imitate ravagers, pillagers and pandas.
1.14.2		Pre-Release 1			Parrots no longer spawn on grass, but on grass blocks instead.
1.15		19w40a			Parrots can now sit on a player's shoulder even while the player is riding.
		19w41a			Parrots no longer imitate pandas.
		19w44a			Parrots no longer imitate polar bears, wolves, and zombie pigmen.
		19w45a			Parrots no longer imitate endermen.
1.16		20w12a			Parrots now imitate hostile mobs less often.
					Parrots no longer imitate hostile mobs when the gamemode is on Peaceful.
1.18		Pre-release 5			The bottom texture of all parrots' wings has been flipped.
1.19		Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1			Parrots can now imitate wardens.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Added parrots.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.13.8			Parrots can now imitate drowned sounds.
1.6.0		beta 1.6.0.1			Parrots can now imitate phantom sounds.
?					Parrots can now imitate pillagers and ravagers.
					The sounds of the parrots have been changed to match Java Edition's.
1.19.0		beta 1.19.0.20			Parrots can now imitate wardens.
Legacy Console Edition
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added parrots.

Issues

Issues relating to "Parrot" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Red parrots are based on the real-life scarlet macaw, "with a little Minecraft twist". Similarly, blue parrots are based on hyacinth macaws, cyan parrots are based on blue-and-yellow macaws, green parrots are based on the chestnut-fronted macaw, great green macaw, red-shouldered macaw or white-eyed parakeet and gray parrots are based on cockatiels.
• Warnings against feeding chocolate or avocados to parrots are referenced in two different splash texts.
• The Minecraft team uses various party parrot emojis when communicating with each other.
• The 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.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 

  The first image of parrots, tweeted by Maria Lemón.

• 

  Note how the parrots crowd around the villager in a tight circle.

• 

  Parrots also crowd around hostile mobs, such as creepers.

• 

  Poison particles that appear in case the player feeds cookies to parrots.

• 

  Parrots riding on the shoulders of Steve, "the parrot king", tweeted by Maria Lemón.

In other media

• 

  Parrots as shown in the World of Color Update artwork.

• 

  A Parrot in promotional artwork for the first Caves & Cliffs update.

• 

  Parrots in official artwork.

• 

  Lego Minecraft Parrot.

Parrots on other default skins

References

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