How to breed birds in Minecraft 2022

Parrots are those rare colorful creatures with many quirky features. It copes with other mobs’ voices, sits on your shoulders, and best of all, dances to the beat of a Jukebox. 

If you’ve tried the traditional method of breeding parrots by providing them with various seeds, but they still don’t mate like the rest of the mobs? I’m afraid I have some bad news for you.

Mojang has not included the ability to breed parrots in the game. This may change in future updates, but for now, we can only find and tame these colorful birds in jungle biomes.

Why Can’t I Breed Parrots in Minecraft ?

When the parrots were first introduced in the Minecraft 1.12 update, players could breed them by feeding them cookies instead of seeds, but this had an unintended consequence in the real world because chocolate chips are toxic to parrots.

Many players objected to this, and Mojang was forced to back down and change the feature as mimicking game acts is very common these days.

Now, if anyone feeds the cookies to the parrots, they would die instantly. As a result, the breeding feature became the killing one, and no alternate breeding feature has been added since.

However there is a way, you can spawn parrots in Minecraft. You can get a randomly colored parrot using this method.

How to Spawn Parrots in Minecraft

You can spawn parrots using parrot spawn eggs or by using commands. The traditional way is only valid for the Creative Mode whereas you can get eggs in both modes using cheats.

Parrots in Minecraft come in five different colors, and you can spawn all five of them with spawn eggs. These eggs randomly spawn birds of any color once you throw them. But before that, you need to get your hands on those eggs first.

Spawn Eggs in Creative Mode

To get parrot’s eggs in Creative Mode,

1. Press ‘E‘ to open the inventory.
2. On the search panel, type “Parrot“.
3. A list with available parrot eggs comes up, drag and drop the eggs on the open space at the left hand side of your screen.
4. After that, close your inventory and pick up those dropped eggs.

Now, to spawn parrots from those eggs,

1. Select the egg from the inventory.
2. Right click on the ground holding the egg where you want to spawn the parrot.

Spawn Eggs Using Cheats

However, the workaround to spawn eggs in your inventory in Survival Mode is a bit more trickier. First you need to activate cheats from settings. This works for both Creative and Survival mode. The command varies as per the version of the game you are playing.

To spawn eggs in your inventory using cheats, Press T and insert the following commands:

• For Minecraft Java Edition for PC and MAC 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.19 and 1.19.1 use
  /give @p parrot_spawn_egg 1
• For Minecraft Java Edition for PC and MAC 1.12 use
  /give @p spawn_egg 1 0 {EntityTag:{id:parrot}}

Now to spawn the parrots, follow the same method as done above.

FAQs

How Can I Find Parrots in Minecraft ?

The one and only option to collect these beautiful birds in survival mode is by exploring the jungle biomes and spotting and taming them. Make sure you have enough seeds as some birds are very hard to tame and may require a lot of seeds. After the birds are tamed, you will see a red heart icon floating on their head.

And as parrots are normally found in groups, it is easier to find more in the vicinity if you spot just one.

How Many Parrots Are There in Minecraft?

There are five types of parrots with different colors. Parrots come in cyan, green, red, blue, and gray. Although they are different visually, they all have the exact attributes.

Summing it up, we just hope Mojang brings more colorful parrots with a mating option so we can have a dance party at my place, making all the parrots wiggle. This is it for now. Do comment below if we have missed anything.

Parrots are a rare Minecraft mob that perches on your shoulder and can mimic sounds from nearby hostile mobs. However, similar to other animal creatures in the game, a parrot will die after a while. The only way to keep it by your side is by taming and breeding them to expand the population.

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Currently, we cannot breed Minecraft parrots like most other mobs as they have no baby form. Although they could previously be bred by feeding cookies, this feature has been altered, making it impossible to be manually spawned.

Therefore, the best way to get more parrots now is to tame them.

1. Find Parrots in Minecraft

The location you can find Minecraft parrots is the jungle biomes where they perch on low-hanging branches and tree leaves.

2. Use the Seeds

Seeds are the best items to feed and tame parrots. You can tame them by giving them melon seeds, beetroot seeds, or pumpkin seeds. Select the seeds in the Hotbar and place them in.

When you feed the seeds to them, grey smoke shall appear on their head. Keep feeding them until you can see the existence of red hearts.

Once being tamed, the parrot is able to ride on the player’s shoulder and mimic the sounds of mobs nearby. For example, if there is a creeper makes a hiss near where you are, the parrot will imitate this sound. However, this feature is not considered too practical sometimes.

Besides, a parrot will dance when it is near a jukebox that is playing music. When it is killed, it can drop one feather and from one to three EXP orbs.

Note: Make sure you don’t feed parrots cookies, since they will die if you do.

How to get a Spawn Egg to breed parrot in Minecraft

Meanwhile, there is a spawn egg in Minecraft named Parrot Spawn Egg. It has green color and red spots.

Not like other materials in the game, this egg cannot be crafted. You can get it from the Creative Inventory menu which is only available in Creative mode (not Survival mode). You can use this spawn egg to instantly spawn a parrot:

In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.16.5, and 1.17, use “/give @p parrot_spawn_egg 1”

In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.12, use “/give @p spawn_egg 1 0 {EntityTag:{id:parrot}}”

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Parrots are among the rarest mobs in Minecraft, spawning only inside jungle biomes. They are harmless, passive mobs that fly around for a short while if attacked. They in Minecraft can be found in either cyan, green, blue, red, or gray color. Parrots can be tamed by feeding them either beetroot, pumpkin, wheat, or melon seeds; upon being tamed they will ride on the players' shoulders mimicking the noise of mobs found close to the player.

Parrots were added in Minecraft Bedrock version 1.2 and Minecraft Java Edition version 1.12. Parrots are among some of the rarer mobs in the game and only spawn inside jungle biomes, in a somewhat similar fashion to Ocelots. They are harmless, passive mobs and will fly around for a short while if attacked. They are also known to be drawn into being around other mobs (including even aggressive mobs). There are five unique parrot colors currently in Minecraft (cyan, green, blue, red & gray).

Minecraft Parrots (Image via 3D Warehouse)

In Minecraft, Parrots currently don’t have too much practical usage outside of being a friendly companion of sorts to the player. After being tamed, the parrot can ride on the players' shoulders and will also mimic the noise of mobs found close by to the player. For example, if a nearby creeper lets off a hiss, the parrot will remember this sound and echo it in its own unique parrot voice; although this has no real practical usage. Parrots will dance if they are somewhat close to a jukebox playing music and if killed a parrot will always drop 1 or 2 feathers and 1-3 EXP orbs.

Red Minecraft parrot (Image via Pinterest)

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Parrots are a rare mob in the game, with a 0.2 chance of spawning inside any jungle biome within the game. They can also, however, be spawned in creative mode using parrot spawn eggs.

Players can tame parrots in Minecraft by feeding them beetroot seeds, pumpkin seeds, wheat seeds or melon seeds. Each time one of these seeds is fed to the parrot, there is a 33% chance the parrot will be tamed.

After being tamed, the parrot will follow the player in a similar fashion to a wolf/ocelot until told to stay in place.

In Minecraft currently, parrots do not have a baby form hence cannot be bred. The only way to find a parrot in the game at the moment is to either spawn it in (with creative mode) or to go looking for one in a jungle biome.

Parrots in their current state in Minecraft, cannot really be fed once tamed. The only thing they can technically eat is cookies. However, upon feeding a parrot a cookie, it will instantly die.

This was implemented to reflect the real-life fact of parrots being unsuited to ingredients in cookies. The decision was made by Mojang to implement the feature in order to teach young players the dangers of feeding potentially lethal things to these fragile birds.

Parrots sitting on the shoulder of a player (Image via Gaming On Linux)

1. How do you get a parrot off your shoulder in Minecraft?

To remove a perched parrot on the shoulder of a player in the game currently, all that needs to be done is to change the current height of said player in some fashion. This can be most simply done by jumping. Upon jumping the parrot will be removed from the shoulder of the player.

2. How do you get a parrot on your shoulder in Minecraft?

It’s very easy to do this. After a parrot has been tamed (see above for a guide on how to tame it), players can simply interact with their tamed parrot and it will appear to sit on their shoulder.

3. How do you heal parrots in Minecraft?

Unfortunately, in the current state of the game, there is no dedicated mechanic to heal a parrot. However, one can craft a splash potion of healing and throw it near the parrot, which will heal it (as it will with any other mob).

4. Do cookies kill parrots in Minecraft?

Yes, if a cookie is fed to a parrot it will die instantly.

This reflects the real-life fact in which parrots are actually unable to process some ingredients inside cookies, hence finding them toxic. Mojang cleverly did this on purpose in order to educate their younger audience.