Parrot

Spawning

Parrots naturally spawn in groups of one or two in jungle, sparse jungle, and bamboo jungle environments. They can appear above logs, leaves, grass blocks, or air, so their bright silhouettes are often visible above the canopy. Unlike most passive animals, parrots cannot be bred.

• JungleBiome
• Sparse JungleBiome
• Bamboo JungleBiome
• Jungle LogBlock
• Parrot Spawn EggItem

Drops

A parrot drops one or two feathers when defeated, with Looting able to add one more. Killing it by a player or tamed wolf also yields one to three experience orbs. The spawn egg is available for testing or creative builds and is not a survival replacement for finding a jungle.

• FeatherItem
• Parrot Spawn EggItem

Sounds

Each sound has its own event. Imitation uses a nearby mob's matching event

instead of a single generic parrot sound.

Behavior

Parrots fly idly, land to rest, and flap their wings while swimming or falling. When attacked they rise several blocks to escape, and they may follow nearby mobs while investigating their surroundings. A tamed parrot follows its owner and teleports when the gap becomes large.

Feed wheat, melon, pumpkin, beetroot, torchflower, or pitcher-pod seeds to attempt taming; each item has a one-in-ten chance to succeed. Interacting with a tamed parrot toggles sitting. A standing bird can perch on either shoulder when the player walks through it, and one bird can occupy each shoulder.

Parrots imitate idle sounds from nearby monsters within roughly twenty blocks. They also dance when a jukebox is playing a music disc within three blocks, then stop when the track ends. A cookie is poisonous to a parrot and kills it, so it must never be used as food.

Taming food is read from the `parrot_food` item tag rather than from a fixed

list in the page. The poisonous-cookie rule is a separate tag, which is why a

cookie is not merely ignored like an unrelated item.

• Wheat SeedsItem
• Melon SeedsItem
• Pumpkin SeedsItem
• Beetroot SeedsItem
• Torchflower SeedsItem
• Pitcher PodItem
• CookieItem
• JukeboxBlock
• Music Disc
• Parrot Spawn EggItem

Data values

The mob uses the stable `minecraft:parrot` identifier. Its variant value selects one of five colours: red-blue, blue, green, yellow-blue, or gray. A tamed parrot stored on a shoulder is represented through the player's shoulder data instead of as a separate world entity.

• ParrotMob
• Parrot Spawn EggItem

Notes

The parrot's dance is a nod to the Party Parrot meme. Its colour palette mirrors several real macaw and cockatiel patterns, while the idle sound set includes a short greeting-like call.

Gallery

See also

• Mob catalogue
• Minecraft Wiki overview
• JungleBiome
• Sparse JungleBiome
• Bamboo JungleBiome
• Jungle LogBlock
• Wheat SeedsItem
• Melon SeedsItem
• Pumpkin SeedsItem
• Beetroot SeedsItem
• Parrot Spawn EggItem
• FeatherItem

References

These links point to the local Java source and data files used for the page.

Data: References

Local source	Parrotparrot
Entity implementation	net/minecraft/world/entity/animal/parrot/Parrot.java
Entity registration	net/minecraft/world/entity/EntityTypes.java
Spawnable blocks	data/minecraft/tags/block/parrots_spawnable_on.json
Taming food	data/minecraft/tags/item/parrot_food.json
Poisonous food	data/minecraft/tags/item/parrot_poisonous_food.json
Entity loot	data/minecraft/loot_table/entities/parrot.json
Sound registry	net/minecraft/sounds/SoundEvents.java

• JungleBiome
• Sparse JungleBiome
• Bamboo JungleBiome
• Parrot Spawn EggItem
• FeatherItem

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