Bird noise nuisance

[Ochillhills]

Next door neighbours have recently acquired a bird. I think it’s some sort of cockatiel (white with a crest, larger than a budgie).
The thing is the noise is driving us mad during the day. I don’t know that I’d describe it as ‘loud’ as such, but it’s shrill and high pitched and can be faintly heard upstairs when it’s quiet. They must cover it at night, but during the day the ‘peep peep’ noise feels relentless and makes my head ache if I’m in the adjoining room for any length of time.

The neighbours are quite unpleasant and I wouldn’t like to have a word with them. Is it the sort of thing you can complain about to the local council?

A single cockatiel inside a house? No, I don't think the council are going to be too interested.

You could ask the owners to move it to a place that's not adjacent to a shared wall? That might help. Hard if they are not nice people, I know.

We've got a cockatiel and, if it's any consolation, they do settle down and get less shrieky after a few months. They're still bloody irritating, but generally in ways that won't impact on you as a neighbour

New birds can be a bit shrieky at first. It should soon settle down but tbh I can't see any noise team being interested.

Oh dear.
When you put it that way ‘a single cockatiel in a house’ it sounds trivial. But it’s a noise that is starting to impact us. My teenager wore headphones to do her work at the table the other day as she couldn’t concentrate. And If we have the radio on a low level we can still hear the bird. It’s just shrill, high pitched and can go on all day long.

Oh no I don't think it's trivial. But I do think the council might, sorry.

But as we say, it should settle down a bit, given time. They shriek for attention but when they realise that they'll only get attention when people want to give it, they tend to give that up. Obviously they still make a bit of noise sometimes, but what household doesn't?

I'm sure it is annoying, I remember one painful summer when our neighbour's autistic son discovered a recorder. Sympathies

It is irritating. But noise teams make you record decibel levels for weeks. They won't come out for a single bird screeching, no matter how incessant and grating the noise.

I might call and see what they say anyway. They might have some advice, because it’s Just wearing and my teenager can’t study downstairs.

It’s been here since early summer and no sign of it abating. Imagine a high pitched noise constantly throughout the day downstairs, and can even be heard faintly in the upstairs rooms!

I’m not now trying to say there’s neglect going on, and I know nothing about birds as pets, but it seems to be in a small cage with little room. I’ve seen the cage, as on hot sunny days they place the cage, containing bird, in the middle of the lawn (is that a thing?)