Parrot

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

Spawning[]

Parrots naturally spawn in groups of 1–2 in jungles, sparse jungles‌^{[BE only]} and bamboo jungles above logs, leaves or grass blocks.

Unlike most passive mobs, parrots cannot be bred.

Drops[]

A parrot drops from one to two feathers upon death. The amount is increased by one per level of Looting, for a range of one to five with Looting III. From 1–3 experience orbs are dropped when parrots are killed by a player or a tamed wolf.

Behavior[]

Parrots are passive and swim in water by flapping its wings. A parrot flies and usually flies upward if it is struck; parrots flap their wings and fall slowly, preventing fall damage. Parrots fly under normal conditions, but they can tire^[1] and return to the ground after a short time. Parrots crowd and settle around other nearby mobs, including neutral and hostile mobs.

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

A tamed parrot follows the player unless told to sit and teleports if there is a distance of 12 blocks between it and the player. A death message is displayed to its owner upon death. The parrot teleportation is completely silent.^[2] 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.

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.^[3]

Imitating sounds[]

Parrots imitate the idle sounds of nearby hostile and certain neutral mobs (including the hiss of creepers but excluding guardians and elder guardians); they have a detection range of 20 cubical blocks. 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.^[4]

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.‌^{[BE only]} This is a reference to the Party Parrot meme.^[5] 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.^[6]

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.^[7]

Sounds[]

Generic[]

Java Edition:
Parrots use the "friendly creatures" sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

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 difficulty is not Peaceful.

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Entity data[]

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

Java Edition:

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
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Monster Hunter	Kill one of these 70 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Axolotl Bee Blaze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Chicken Jockey Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Skeleton Horseman Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Spider Jockey Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst
	Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Husbandry	Tame one of these 8 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.[9]
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.[10]
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".[11] 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!"[12]
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.
1.20 (Experimental)		1.19.4 Pre-release 1			Parrots can now be fed using torchflower seeds.[13]
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".^[14] Similarly, blue parrots are based on hyacinth macaws, cyan parrots are based on blue-and-yellow macaws, green parrots are based on the military macaw or possibly other green parrots, and gray parrots are based on cockatiels.
• Warnings texts 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 on discord.^[15]
• 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.
• Interacting a jukebox will drop a sticker also it will play the "otherside" music disc It can only be found in the 15 Year Map.

Gallery[]

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  The first image of parrots, tweeted by Maria Lemón.

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  Another image of parrots tweeted by Maria Lemón.

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

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

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  Parrots also crowd around hostile mobs, such as creepers.

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

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  Parrots in Bedrock Edition.

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  A parrot seen through a spyglass.

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  A parrot with a dog's model.

In other media[]

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  Parrots as shown in the World of Color Update artwork.

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

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  A parrot in promotional artwork for The Wild Update.

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  Parrots in official artwork.

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  Parrot art.

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  Parrots art.

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  Lego Minecraft Parrot.

Renders[]

Sitting[]

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  A sitting red parrot.

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  A sitting blue parrot.

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  A sitting green parrot.

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  A sitting cyan parrot.

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  A sitting gray parrot.

Dancing[]

Sitting on the player[]

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