Of course, in addition to necessity, green cheek conure beak grinding also means you have a happy (and sleepy) bird. He seems to be healthy and eats normally and acts normal in every other aspect. Ours will get up on my bed and do it, or land on a leg or arm and do this. So this is an odd behavior I've noticed in my bird for several months now (google had nothing to offer...) and I thought I'd try and see if anyone else has a similar bird. A bird would surely struggle without its beak. Help. I know exactly what you are talking about- this is different from when they clean their beaks. Your green cheek conure … She'll have her head turned at an angle, looking at me with one eye, and rubs her beak down my arm several times. Like our nails, a beak is made of keratin. Aside from its obvious function during meals, it is used for climbing and it acts as a “hand” as it explores its world. My little Sun Conure takes her beak and strokes my arm with her beak. A bird’s beak serves more purpose that just about any other part of its outer anatomy. Most of the we'll play the chase game after he finishes that. I have a green cheek conure who is constantly rubbing hi beak, either on his cage or on your clothing. Wasabi rubs his beak on his perch sometimes when I am talking to him. If you hear small grinding noises coming out of the cage at night, or while the bird is sitting on your shoulder, then congratulations! It can snap a tree branch in half and then gently feed a chick in the nest. A lot of times it will be when one of the quakers is near- he will drop his head and rub his beak on the ground back and forth. We have a sunday conure, he does this too. I did not want to place this is Kelli711's thread, which is about beak rubbing, since I have a separate question. No I notice that ther is crusted blood around his nostril.