[Yith]

Never had a bird pet. I don't like em cause of all the noise they make. That and they just sit in their cage all day anyways, so what's the point?

What you described are "noble" birds.

Rich people buy those just to make their home look ... err... exotic I guess. These people do not care about the birds themselves, and in this case the birds won't give a shit about their owner either.

A pet bird is very friendly once it actually recognizes you as its master.

Mine is free to go wherever he wants, he spends most of the day ontop his cage.

Noise depends on the kind of bird himself obviously and its environment.

Anyway whenever I arrive at home he insta-sings random stuff it's just hilarious. He recognizes the microwave and phone rings and will use a word in his "greetings" vocabulary "chart", depending on those rings.

Birds are 2-legged scripts, bscly.

He also likes to directly fly and land on my shoulder just for fun if I'm around the living room. Sometimes he goes as far as going down the stairs trying to find me.

He's fascinated by my headphones and will remind me so by repeatedly bobbing his head whenever I'm gaming with him on my shoulder.

And this little dude is only 15 cm high. Now imagine what you could do this these.

(Ignore the fifth picture, that's a horrible wound, and black-plamed cockatoos cost around 75,000$!)

A bird can interact and be appreciated as much as a dog/cat. That is all.

Never heard of an African Grey?