your advice seems to have worked...he must have been very stressed out. once we started draping his cage to block the sun, he quieted down immediately...and his poop returned to normal thank you for giving us back our grand old man!!!
starting about 2 months ago, he became very noisy, almost downright irritating. he has always whistled and chirped to his hearts content but now the whistles and chirps have become loud SHRIEKS that he will do over and over and over...and over!!!