A Frightening Experience

Not to long ago my Dusky Conure seemed to have disappeared off the face of the earth! I live in the top floor of a tri-level house with just one window in the room that is always screened and almost always shut. My Conure is a very well trained parrot, (I used some of Chet Womachs training methods to teach him) he was well enough mannered to be allowed quite a bit of freedom and he always came back to his cage...Except for this one time. It was just a normal day for me, I opened Rocko's cage (that's his name) and cleaned my room a bit, then I went to the bathroom, when I got back Rocko was nowhere to be seen! I had left the door open to my room when I had left as well; I searched all over the house and even outside a bit, but to no avail. I went to bed very late that night feeling sick to my stomach, I had searched for hours all day and most of the night looking for Rocko.
The next day as I lay on my bed looking into my closet, wondering where else I could possibly look I saw the inner lining of my suit jacket TWITCH! My heart leaped! I bounded out of bed and into my closet, took down my suit jacket and to my delight found Rocko under the lining of my suit jacket!
After this experience I remembered that when a parrot starts climbing, he climbs until he reaches the top, on top of that if its dark he automatically thinks "oh, its night, time to sleep!" so what happened? He started climbing up my suit jacket and started climbing right up the inner lining! (the lining is sewn at the top) it got dark up there and he went to sleep.
So why am I typing all this? Well I want others to know about these two behaviors in birds. #1 birds climb untill they reach the top & #2 when its dark they sleep.

Thanks for reading & I hope you learned something.

Adam
The Parrot Tamer.