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Health points	6HP
Behavior	Passive
Mob type	Animal
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Height: 0.9 blocks Width: 0.5 blocks In Bedrock Edition: Height: 1.0 blocks Width: 0.5 blocks
Speed	0.2
Spawn	Jungle Bamboo Jungle Sparse Jungle‌
Usable items	Wheat Seeds Beetroot Seeds Melon Seeds Pumpkin Seeds Torchflower Seeds Pitcher Pod Cookie (Toxic) Lead

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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.

Spawning

Parrots naturally spawn in groups of 1–2 in jungles, bamboo jungles, and sparse jungles‌ above logs, leaves, or grass blocks.

Unlike most passive mobs, parrots cannot be bred.

Drops

On death

Item		Roll Chance	Quantity (Roll Chance)
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Feather	100%	1–2	1–3	1–4	1–5

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

Behavior

Parrots fly around idly under normal circumstances, landing frequently to rest. 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, and to 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.

A tamed parrot follows the player unless told to sit, and teleports if there is a distance of 12 blocks between it and the player (unless told to sit). A death message is displayed to a parrot's owner upon its death.

In Java Edition, attempting to feed a parrot a cookie instantly kills it, emitting Poison particles as it dies. In Bedrock Edition, attempting to feed a parrot a cookie also instantly kills it, but Fatal Poison is emitted instead. This is a reference to the fact that chocolate is toxic to parrots.

Sitting on a shoulder

A player with a parrot on their shoulder.

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
• 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 on a shoulder cannot take any damage but 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.

Imitating sounds

Parrots imitate the idle sounds of nearby hostile mobs, friendly passive mobs and certain neutral mobs (including the hiss of creepers but excluding guardians and elder guardians); they have a detection range of 20 blocks. In Bedrock Edition, they can also imitate cows, ocelots, pigs, sheep, cats, horses, chickens, bees, mooshrooms, goats, bats, pandas, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses, villagers, llamas, zombie horses, wandering traders, trader llamas, cod, salmon, iron golems, axolotls, squids, snow golems, polar bears, foxes, tropical fish, pufferfish, allays, and wolves. The sound produced by the parrots is the same sound as the mob being mimicked at a higher pitch. Occasionally, a parrot may imitate sounds of mobs that are not in the area.

Dancing

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.‌ This is a reference to the Party Parrot meme. They stop dancing when the track ends.

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.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:
Parrots use the "friendly creatures" sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Parrot talks	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	entity.parrot.ambient	subtitles.entity.parrot.ambient​	0.7	0.8-1.2	16
	​Parrot eats	Friendly Creatures	When a parrot eats a non-cookie item	entity.parrot.eat	subtitles.entity.parrot.eats​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Parrot dies	Friendly Creatures	When a parrot dies	entity.parrot.death	subtitles.entity.parrot.death​	1.0	varies	16
	​Parrot hurts	Friendly Creatures	When a parrot is damaged	entity.parrot.hurt	subtitles.entity.parrot.hurts​	1.0	varies	16
	​Parrot flutters	Friendly Creatures	While a parrot is flying	entity.parrot.fly	subtitles.entity.parrot.fly​	0.15	1.0	16
	None​​	Friendly Creatures	While a parrot is walking	entity.parrot.step	None​​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	mob.parrot.idle	0.7	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When a parrot eats an item	mob.parrot.eat	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When a parrot dies	mob.parrot.death	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a parrot is damaged	mob.parrot.hurt	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Friendly Creatures	While a parrot is flying	mob.parrot.fly	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	While a parrot is walking	mob.parrot.step	1.0	0.8-1.2

Imitations

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.

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Sound	Subtitles ‌	Source	Mob	Resource location	Translation key ‌	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance ‌
‌	Parrot meows	Friendly Creatures ‌	Cat	entity.parrot.imitate.cat ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.cat	0.28 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
None ‌	N/A	None ‌		mob.cat.meow ‌	N/A	0.4 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	Parrot rattles	Friendly Creatures‌	Bogged	entity.parrot.imitate.bogged‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.bogged	1.0‌	1.36-2.04	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures‌		imitate.bogged‌	N/A	0.7		N/A
	Parrot whirs	Friendly Creatures ‌	Breeze	entity.parrot.imitate.breeze ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.breeze	0.7	1.7	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.breeze.idle_ground ‌	N/A			N/A
	Parrot creaks	Friendly Creatures‌	Creaking	entity.parrot.imitate.creaking	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.creaking	0.7	0.8-1.2	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures‌		mob.parrot.imitate_creaking	N/A	1.0	1.0	N/A
	Parrot hisses	Friendly Creatures ‌	Creeper	entity.parrot.imitate.creeper ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.creeper	0.42 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Blocks ‌		random.fuse ‌	N/A	0.6 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
‌	Parrot gurgles	Friendly Creatures ‌	Drowned	entity.parrot.imitate.drowned ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.drowned	0.42 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
‌	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.zombie.say ‌	N/A	0.6 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	Parrot moans	Friendly Creatures ‌	Elder guardian	entity.parrot.imitate.elder_guardian ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.elder_guardian	0.49 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.guardian.land_idle ‌	N/A	0.7 ‌	1.7 ‌	N/A
	Parrot roars	Friendly Creatures ‌	Ender dragon	entity.parrot.imitate.ender_dragon ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.ender_dragon	0.14 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.enderdragon.growl ‌	N/A	1.6 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	N/A	Hostile Creatures	Enderman ‌	mob.endermen.idle	N/A	0.5	1.7	N/A
	Parrot scuttles	Friendly Creatures ‌	Endermite	entity.parrot.imitate.endermite ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.endermite	0.49 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.endermite.say ‌	N/A	0.7 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
‌	Parrot murmurs	Friendly Creatures ‌	Evoker	entity.parrot.imitate.evoker ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.evoker	0.42 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
‌	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.evocation_illager.ambient ‌	N/A	0.6 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	Parrot cries	Friendly Creatures ‌	Ghast	entity.parrot.imitate.ghast ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.ghast	0.49 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.ghast.moan ‌	N/A	0.35 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	Parrot moans	Friendly Creatures	Guardian ‌ ​	entity.parrot.imitate.guardian	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.guardian	0.28	1.44-2.16	16
	Parrot growls	Friendly Creatures	Hoglin ‌	entity.parrot.imitate.hoglin	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.hoglin	0.42	1.52-2.28	16
	Parrot groans	Friendly Creatures ‌	Husk	entity.parrot.imitate.husk ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.husk	0.42 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.husk.ambient ‌	N/A	0.6 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
‌	Parrot murmurs	Friendly Creatures ‌	Illusioner ‌	entity.parrot.imitate.illusioner ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.illusioner	0.49 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	Parrot squishes	Friendly Creatures ‌	Magma cube	entity.parrot.imitate.magma_cube ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.magma_cube	0.42 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.magmacube.big ‌	N/A	0.6 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	N/A	Friendly Creatures	Panda ‌	mob.panda.idle	N/A	0.7	0.8	N/A
	Parrot screeches	Friendly Creatures	Phantom ‌ ​	entity.parrot.imitate.phantom	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.phantom	0.42	1.36-2.04	16
	Parrot snorts	Friendly Creatures	Piglin ‌	entity.parrot.imitate.piglin	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.piglin	0.42	1.44-2.16	16
	Parrot snorts	Friendly Creatures	Piglin brute ‌	entity.parrot.imitate.piglin_brute	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.piglin_brute	0.42	1.44-2.16	16
	Parrot murmurs	Friendly Creatures	Pillager ‌ ​	entity.parrot.imitate.pillager	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.pillager	0.28	1.44-2.16	16
	N/A	Friendly Creatures	Polar bear ‌	mob.polarbear.idle	N/A	0.7	0.8	N/A
	Parrot grunts	Friendly Creatures	Ravager ‌ ​	entity.parrot.imitate.ravager	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.ravager	0.14	1.44-2.16	16
	Parrot lurks	Friendly Creatures ‌	Shulker	entity.parrot.imitate.shulker ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.shulker	0.28 ‌	1.36-2.04 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.shulker.ambient ‌	N/A	0.4 ‌	1.7 ‌	N/A
	Parrot hisses	Friendly Creatures ‌	Silverfish	entity.parrot.imitate.silverfish ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.silverfish	0.49 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.silverfish.say ‌	N/A	0.7 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	Parrot rattles	Friendly Creatures ‌	Skeleton	entity.parrot.imitate.skeleton ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.skeleton	0.7 ‌	1.36-2.04 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.skeleton.say	N/A	1.0 ‌	1.7 ‌	N/A
	Parrot squishes	Friendly Creatures	Slime	entity.parrot.imitate.slime ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.slime	0.42 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures		mob.slime.big	N/A	0.6 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	Parrot moos	Friendly Creatures ‌	Cow and Mooshroom	entity.parrot.imitate.cow ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.cow	0.42 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Friendly Creatures ‌		mob.cow.say ‌	N/A	0.6 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	Parrot rattles	Friendly Creatures ‌	Stray	entity.parrot.imitate.stray ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.stray	0.42 ‌	1.28-1.92 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.stray.ambient ‌	N/A	0.6 ‌	1.6 ‌	N/A
	Parrot vexes	Friendly Creatures ‌	Vex	entity.parrot.imitate.vex ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.vex	0.56 ‌	1.28-1.92 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.vex.ambient ‌	N/A	0.8 ‌	1.6 ‌	N/A
‌	Parrot mutters	Friendly Creatures ‌	Vindicator	entity.parrot.imitate.vindicator ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.vindicator	0.42 ‌	1.36-2.04 ‌	16
‌	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.vindicator.idle ‌	N/A	0.6 ‌	1.7 ‌	N/A
	Parrot whines	Friendly Creatures ‌	Warden	entity.parrot.imitate.warden ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.warden	0.56 ‌	1.6-2.4 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.warden.clicking ‌	N/A	0.8 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	Parrot giggles	Friendly Creatures ‌	Witch	entity.parrot.imitate.witch ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.witch	0.35 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.witch.ambient ‌	N/A	0.5 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	Parrot angers	Friendly Creatures ‌	Wither	entity.parrot.imitate.wither ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.wither	0.14 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.wither.ambient ‌	N/A	0.2 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
‌	Parrot rattles	Friendly Creatures ‌	Wither skeleton	entity.parrot.imitate.wither_skeleton ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.wither_skeleton	0.49 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
‌	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.skeleton.say ‌	N/A	0.7 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	N/A	Friendly Creatures	Wolf ‌	mob.wolf.bark	N/A	0.6	1.8	N/A
	Parrot growls	Friendly Creatures	Zoglin ‌ ​	entity.parrot.imitate.zoglin	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.zoglin	0.42	1.52-2.28	16
	Parrot groans	Friendly Creatures ‌	Zombie	entity.parrot.imitate.zombie ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.zombie	0.42 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.zombie.say ‌	N/A	0.6 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	Parrot groans	Friendly Creatures ‌	Zombie villager	entity.parrot.imitate.zombie_villager ‌	subtitles.entity.parrot.imitate.zombie_villager	0.42 ‌	1.44-2.16 ‌	16
	N/A	Hostile Creatures ‌		mob.zombie_villager.say ‌	N/A	0.6 ‌	1.8 ‌	N/A
	N/A	Hostile Creatures	Zombified piglin ‌	mob.zombiepig.zpig	N/A	0.4	1.8	N/A

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	[hide]Translation key
Parrot	parrot	fall_damage_immune	entity.minecraft.parrot

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Parrot	parrot	30	entity.parrot.name

Entity data

Parrots have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Additional fields for mobs that can be tamed by players see Template:Nbt inherit/tameable/template[show]
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template[show]
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template[show]
  • [Int] Variant: Specifies the color variant of the parrot, default is 0.

Parrot Variant[show][edit]

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

[hide]
Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	—	20	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Tame one of these 8 tameable mobs: Skeleton Horse and Zombie Horse can be tamed in the same way as a regular horse to gain this advancement with the ride command.
	Is It a Bird?	Look at a Parrot through a Spyglass	—
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst:[show] Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	–
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.

History

March 23, 2017							Maria Lemón tweets that her new mob, created with the help of RazzleberryFox, will be showcased in the next snapshot. "It's flytastic!"
							Later the same day, she revealed that the new mob is the parrot.
March 26, 2017							Maria reveals that parrots can copy the sounds of other mobs around it.
							Later the same day, she tweets an image of Steve "the parrot king" carrying parrots on his shoulder.
March 28, 2017							Maria tweets another image of parrots, showcasing their ability to fly and slowly drift downward.
March 30, 2017							Shortly before the snapshot was released, Maria revealed that parrots are attracted to cookies. This is a reference to the popular phrase "Polly wants a cracker". In real life, parrots should not be fed chocolate chip cookies, as chocolate is toxic to parrots.
[hide]Java Edition
1.12			17w13a				Added parrots.
			17w13b				Added gray-yellow parrot.
			17w14a				The right-click action has been changed: right-clicking on a tamed parrot now tells it to sit.
							Having a parrot sit on the player's shoulders now require the player to walk through the parrot.
							Parrots now dance and cycle through the variants if music is playing on a nearby jukebox.
							Parrots now make sounds when sitting on the player's shoulders.
			17w15a				Parrots no longer cycle through the variants while dancing.
			17w16a				Parrots now dismount whenever the player is not touching the ground. This makes it impossible keep the parrots on the shoulder while gliding. Previously they only dismounted when moving upwards.
			pre3				Parrots are now tamed with seeds, instead of cookies, after a post on Reddit.
							Attempting to feed cookies to a parrot now instantly kills the parrot, causing it to emit poison particles. In an e-mail to Motherboard, Jens Bergensten explained: "Our reasoning for originally using cookies was twofold; it gave cookies a reason to exist within Minecraft, and it was a subtle reference to the Nirvana song 'Polly.' However, we didn't consider what the chocolate ingredient would mean to real life parrots!"
			pre5				Killing a parrot by feeding it a cookie now counts as if the parrot was killed by the player who fed it. This affects death messages, causes the parrot to drop experience, take knockback and causes the looting enchantment to take affect.
			pre6				Parrots no longer dismount the player when simply not touching the ground. Now the player needs to fall at least about 0.75 blocks.​
1.13			18w19a				Parrots now imitate phantoms and drowned.
1.14			19w11a				Parrots can now imitate ravagers, pillagers and pandas.
1.14.2			Pre-Release 1				Parrots no longer spawn on grass, but on grass blocks instead.
1.15			19w40a				Parrots can now sit on a player's shoulder even while the player is riding something.
			19w41a				Parrots no longer imitate pandas.
			19w44a				Parrots no longer imitate polar bears, wolves, and zombie pigmen.
			19w45a				Parrots no longer imitate endermen.
1.16			20w12a				Parrots now imitate hostile mobs less often.
							Parrots no longer imitate hostile mobs when the difficulty is on Peaceful.
1.18			Pre-release 5				The bottom texture of all parrots' wings has been flipped.
1.19			Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1				Parrots can now imitate wardens.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			Pre-release 1				Parrots can now be fed using torchflower seeds.
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21			24w07a				Parrots can now imitate bogged.
1.20.5			24w11a				Adjusted their flying behavior to keep them from overshooting their position when flying up and down.
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop			24w40a				Parrots can now imitate creakings.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.2.0			beta 1.2.0.2				Added parrots.
1.2.13			beta 1.2.13.8				Parrots can now imitate drowned sounds.
1.6.0			beta 1.6.0.1				Parrots can now imitate phantom sounds.
?							Parrots can now imitate pillagers and ravagers.
							The sounds of the parrots have been changed to match Java Edition's.
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.21				Parrots can now imitate wardens.
1.21.20			Preview 1.21.10.20				Parrots can now imitate bogged.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added parrots.
TU56	CU48	1.55	1.55	1.55	Patch 26	1.0.6	Players can no longer attack tamed parrots with player versus player disabled.
TU57	CU49	1.57	1.56	1.56	Patch 27	1.0.7	Looking at a parrot while holding a cookie now shows the "feed" tooltip.
TU62	CU52	1.66	1.66	1.66	Patch 31	1.0.12	Looking at a parrot while holding a cookie no longer shows the "feed" tooltip.
			1.88				All parrots – even unnamed parrots – now display death messages to their owner.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Numeric IDs for entities were presumably deprecated in this version.​

Issues

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

Trivia

• Red parrots are based on the real-life scarlet macaw "with a little Minecraft twist". 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, and gray parrots are based on cockatiels.
• The Minecraft team uses various party parrot emojis when communicating with each other on discord.
• 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".

Gallery

Renders

Sitting

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  A sitting red parrot.

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  A sitting blue parrot.

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  A sitting green parrot.

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  A sitting cyan parrot.

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  A sitting gray parrot.

Dancing

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  A dancing red parrot.

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  A dancing blue parrot.

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  A dancing green parrot.

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  A dancing cyan parrot.

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  A dancing gray parrot.

Sitting on the player

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  Alex with a red parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Alex with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Alex with a green parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Alex with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Alex with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Ari with a red parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Ari with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Ari with a green parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Ari with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Ari with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Efe with a red parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Efe with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Efe with a green parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Efe with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Efe with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Kai with a red parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Kai with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Kai with a green parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Kai with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Kai with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Makena with a red parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Makena with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Makena with a green parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Makena with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Makena with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Noor with a red parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Noor with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Noor with a green parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Noor with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Noor with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Steve with a red parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Steve with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Steve with a green parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Steve with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Steve with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Sunny with a red parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Sunny with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Sunny with a green parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Sunny with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Sunny with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Zuri with a red parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Zuri with a blue parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Zuri with a green parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Zuri with a cyan parrot on their left shoulder.

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  Zuri with a grey parrot on their left shoulder.

Screenshots

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  The first image of parrots, tweeted by Maria Lemón.

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  Another image of parrots tweeted by Maria Lemón.

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  Parrots riding on the shoulders of Steve, "the parrot king", tweeted by Maria Lemón.

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  Note how the parrots crowd around the villager in a tight circle.

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  Parrots also crowd around hostile mobs, such as creepers.

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  Poison particles appear if the player feeds cookies to parrots.

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  Parrots in Bedrock Edition.

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  A parrot seen through a spyglass.

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  A parrot with a wolf's model.

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  A gif of all parrot faces.

Textures

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  Red parrot texture file.

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  Blue parrot texture file.

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  Green parrot texture file.

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  Cyan parrot texture file.

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  Gray parrot texture file.

In other media

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  Parrots as shown in the World of Color Update artwork.

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  Artwork of a parrot.

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  A Parrot in promotional artwork for the first Caves & Cliffs update.

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  Parrots in official artwork.

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  Animated parrot sticker from an official Wild Update stickerpack.

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  Artwork of parrots with redstone.

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  Artwork of every parrot, used for the 15th anniversary of Minecraft.

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  Artwork of a red parrot with a turtle.

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  Ari flying with several parrots.

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  Pixel artwork of Noor fishing with several parrots.

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  Lego Minecraft Parrot.

External links

• Parrot article on Wikipedia
• Mob Menagerie: Parrot — Minecraft.net on February 2, 2024