Millions of humans share their homes with pet parrots. Parrots are popular pets not only because of their intelligence, but also because of their ability to communicate vocally with their owners. But this vocal ability evolved in the wild for interparrot communication (i.e., for maintaining connections with other members of its flock). This connection with the flock is crucial to survival: a lone parrot cannot eat and search for predators simultaneously. What happens when a parrot, brought into a human home, adopts its human family as its flock and its flock members go to school, to work, or to do chores? Many times birds left alone engage in loud raucous calling that the owners--or neighbors--find unacceptable. Often parrots are given up for adoption because the owners cannot find ways of bringing this calling down to an acceptable decibel level. Our device is an attempt to engage the parrot and shape its behavior through positive rewards and mildly negative experiences that are completely under its own control.