Parrot

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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.

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

Unlike most passive mobs, parrots cannot be bred.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

1–3XP experience orbs are dropped when parrots are killed by a player or a tamed wolf.

Parrots fly around idly under normal circumstances, landing frequently to rest.^[1] They take interest in any nearby 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 swim, slow their falls, and prevent fall damage.

Parrots can be tamed by feeding them wheat seeds, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, beetroot seeds, torchflower seeds, or pitcher pods. Each item fed has a ¹⁄₁₀ chance of successfully taming them. Once tamed, interacting with a parrot makes it sit down and stand up.

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

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

In Java Edition, attempting to feed a parrot a cookie deals 2¹²⁸ damage to it, emitting Poison particles as it dies. In Bedrock Edition, attempting to feed a parrot a cookie does not instantly kill it, but Fatal Poison is emitted instead. This is a reference to the fact that chocolate is toxic to parrots.

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

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:

• Lands on a higher surface (¹⁄₂ block up or higher)
• drops off a ledge of higher than ³⁄₄ of a block
• takes damage
• touches water
• touches powder snow
• is in creative flying mode
• starts gliding with an elytra^[2]
• 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 riding on an entity cannot take any damage (except void and /kill).‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

But it 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]

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

Parrots imitate the idle sounds of nearby monsters and in Bedrock Edition, a few neutral 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.^[4]

In Bedrock Edition, they can also imitate neutral mobs such as endermen, polar bears, wolves and zombified piglins. In Java Edition, they can also imitate piglins, hoglins and piglin brutes.

In Java Edition, parrots attempt to imitate happy ghasts, but without using the corresponding sound event.

Parrots don't imitate the sounds of skeleton horses.^[5]

Mobs that are imitated by 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.‌^{[BE only]} This is a reference to the Party Parrot meme.^[6] They stop dancing when the track ends.^[7]

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.^[8]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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.

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Issues relating to "Parrot" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• Red parrots are based on the real-life scarlet macaw "with a little Minecraft twist".^[16] Similarly, blue parrots are based on hyacinth macaws, cyan parrots are based on blue-and-yellow macaws, green parrots are based on black-billed amazon parrots,^[17] and gray parrots are based on cockatiels.
• The Minecraft team uses various party parrot emojis when communicating with each other on discord.^[18]
• 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.
• The "idle6" sound of the parrot is the English word "hello".^[19]

• The artist and modeller for parrots, RazzleberryFox, originally designed ten parrots.^[20]
  • Sixteen parrots were supposed to be concepted representing one of each dye.^[21]

• 👁 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.

• 👁 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 17w14a.
  
  A dancing parrot in 17w14a.

• 👁 Alex with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  
  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.
• 👁 Ari with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  
  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.
• 👁 Efe with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  
  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.
• 👁 Kai with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  
  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.
• 👁 Makena with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  
  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.
• 👁 Noor with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  
  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.
• 👁 Steve with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  
  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.
• 👁 Sunny with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  
  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.
• 👁 Zuri with a red parrot on their left shoulder.
  
  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.

• 👁 The first image of parrots, tweeted by Maria Lemón.
  
  The first image of parrots, tweeted by Maria Lemón.
• 👁 Another image of parrots tweeted by Maria Lemón.
  
  Another image of parrots tweeted by Maria Lemón.
• 👁 Parrots riding on the shoulders of Steve, "the parrot king", tweeted by Maria Lemón.
  
  Parrots riding on the shoulders of Steve, "the parrot king", tweeted by Maria Lemón.
• 👁 Note how the parrots crowd around the villager in a tight circle.
  
  Note how the parrots crowd around the villager in a tight circle.
• 👁 Parrots also crowd around hostile mobs, such as creepers.
  
  Parrots also crowd around hostile mobs, such as creepers.
• 👁 Poison particles appear if the player feeds cookies to parrots.
  
  Poison particles appear if the player feeds 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.

• 👁 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.

• 👁 Parrots as shown in the World of Color Update artwork.
  
  Parrots as shown in the 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 Caves & Cliffs update.
  
  A Parrot in promotional artwork for the first Caves & Cliffs update.
• 👁 Parrots in official artwork.
  
  Parrots in official artwork.
• 👁 Animated parrot sticker from an official Wild Update stickerpack.
  
  Animated parrot sticker from an official Wild Update stickerpack.
• 👁 Artwork of parrots with redstone.
  
  Artwork of parrots with 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 turtle.
  
  Artwork of a red parrot with a turtle.
• 👁 Ari flying with several parrots.
  
  Ari flying with several parrots.
• 👁 Pixel artwork of Noor fishing with several parrots.
  
  Pixel artwork of Noor fishing with several parrots.
• 👁 A Lego Minecraft parrot.
  
  A Lego Minecraft parrot.
• 👁 A lego Minecraft cyan parrot.
  
  A lego Minecraft cyan parrot.
• 👁 A Lego Minecraft green parrot.
  
  A Lego Minecraft green parrot.
• 👁 A golden parrot as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons
  
  A golden parrot as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons
• 👁 A parrot as it appears in Ghast in the Machine!
  
  A parrot as it appears in Ghast in the Machine!

• "Mob Menagerie: Parrot" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, February 2, 2024.