Hi. This is Leopoldo. He is believed to be six years old. He has been with us for two months. We had no previous experience with parrots but did some research and decided to adopt an adult Eclectus.
In our research we had read that Eclectus parrots can keep themselves busy with toys, but Leopoldo doesn't seem to like any toys. We bought him many different toys but he doesn't even notice them. And he definitely does not like to be alone. He likes to be where we are, whether it's on our shoulder, on our arm, on the desk where I am working, on the back of the chair where I am sitting, or even on the top of his cage as long as we are in the same room. He likes to get kisses on the top of his beak. He says many different words that he learned from his previous owners but until now he only talks when he is alone in the room. He also laughs and makes many other nice sounds. He hasn't learned any new words from us, but a couple of days ago he started to imitate certain sounds I have been making with my mouth for him. I am not sure why he is imitating those sounds but not my speech.
We haven't yet been able to teach him to poop *always* in the right place (that is, on the edge of the cage). Most of the times if he has been on our shoulder for a while and we take him to the cage and say "poop" to him he will go on the top of the cage and poop right away, so perhaps he does understand that we want him to poop there, but if we forget to take him to the cage for longer than 15-20 minutes, he will just poop wherever he happens to be, especially if he is doing something interesting. I wish we could teach him to hold it for a little longer, or perhaps to go to the cage by himself when he needs to. This situation is frustrating.
The other frustrating thing is that it's difficult to persuade him to go in his cage. When we are home during the day we keep him out of the cage, but when we are out he has to be in the cage with the cage door locked; but many times he doesn't want to. Even if we show him a treat and put it in the cage, this trick will only work one or two times. The next time, he will remember that we closed the door behind him and will refuse to go inside the cage. Often he gets angry when it's time to go to bed. Sometimes he growls when we close the door of the room and switch off the light at night, even if we leave the cage door open. I hope he will learn that there is a time when everybody has to go to sleep.
Overall, he is very sweet and an interesting companion. He is extremely curious. When we are doing something unusual he wants to be present, watch closely, and comment with his cute little sounds.