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PASSIVE Present since 1.14 or earlier

Parrot mob in Minecraft

The Parrot is a small, colorful jungle bird that you tame with seeds. A tamed parrot rides on your shoulder, dances to music and imitates hostile mobs, but it cannot be bred, and a single cookie kills it.

Health: 63 hearts
Behavior: Passive
Tamed with: +2 more
Found in: Bamboo Jungle+1 more

Parrot stats

Health: 6 3 hearts
Behavior: Passive
Main drop: Feather
Spawns in: 2 biomes
Size: 0.5 × 0.9 blocks
XP when killed: 1 to 3
Speed: 0.2
Flying speed: 0.4
Detection range: 16 blocks
Tempt range: 10 blocks

// Experience drops only when a player kills it. Speeds are the game’s internal values, not blocks per second.

Where to find Parrot

Biomes where it spawns naturally, with its share of the spawns in each group.

Bamboo Jungle

Jungle

Spawning

Group size: 1 to 2
Light level: 9 or more
Spawns on: Acacia Leaves Acacia Log Acacia WoodAAirAzalea Leaves Birch Leaves Birch Log Birch Wood Cherry Leaves Cherry Log Cherry Wood Crimson Hyphae Crimson Stem Dark Oak Leaves Dark Oak Log Dark Oak Wood Flowering Azalea Leaves Grass Block Jungle Leaves Jungle Log Jungle Wood Mangrove Leaves Mangrove Log Mangrove Wood Oak Leaves Oak Log Oak Wood Orange Poplar Leaves Pale Oak Leaves Pale Oak Log Pale Oak Wood Poplar Log Poplar Wood Red Poplar Leaves Spruce Leaves Spruce Log Spruce Wood Stripped Acacia Log Stripped Acacia Wood Stripped Birch Log Stripped Birch Wood Stripped Cherry Log Stripped Cherry Wood Stripped Crimson Hyphae Stripped Crimson Stem Stripped Dark Oak Log Stripped Dark Oak Wood Stripped Jungle Log Stripped Jungle Wood Stripped Mangrove Log Stripped Mangrove Wood Stripped Oak Log Stripped Oak Wood Stripped Pale Oak Log Stripped Pale Oak Wood Stripped Poplar Log Stripped Poplar Wood Stripped Spruce Log Stripped Spruce Wood Stripped Warped Hyphae Stripped Warped Stem Warped Hyphae Warped Stem Yellow Poplar Leaves

Parrot drops

Parrot dropsFrom the loot table · chance per kill

Feather+1 per Looting level1–2

Health compared

Health vs other passive mobshealth points

Sheep8

Sulfur Cube8

Bat6

Parrot6

Tadpole6

Chicken4

Snow Golem4

Variants

5 variants. The game picks one when the mob spawns, based on where it appears.

Red and blue

Blue

Green

Yellow and blue

Grey

Traits

Properties set in the game files.

No fall damageTakes no damage from falling.

Food and breeding

Items it eats, follows or breeds with.

TamingChance per item given, read in the game code.

Wheat Seedstames it10% per try

Melon Seedstames it10% per try

Pumpkin Seedstames it10% per try

Beetroot Seedstames it10% per try

Torchflower Seedstames it10% per try

Pitcher Podtames it10% per try

What you can do with Parrot

Items to use on it and what happens.

Never feedCookieA Cookie poisons and kills it.

Advancements with Parrot

Advancements whose criteria involve this mob, from the game files.

Is It a Bird?Look at a Parrot through a Spyglass

Command

Summon a Parrot/summon →

/summon minecraft:parrot ~ ~ ~

Where to find parrots

Parrots live in the Jungle and the Bamboo Jungle, usually up in the trees or flying between them. Their color is picked at random, so taming several birds is the only way to collect every color. They take no fall damage and flutter down gently when they leave a branch.

How to tame a parrot

Hold seeds, for example wheat seeds, and feed them to a wild parrot. Each seed only has a chance to work, so keep feeding until hearts appear. Melon, pumpkin and beetroot seeds work too, as do torchflower seeds and pitcher pods.

Never give a parrot a cookie. It is poisonous to parrots and kills them on the spot, tamed or not.

The parrot on your shoulder

A tamed parrot that is not told to sit flies over and lands on your shoulder. You can carry two, one on each side. They stay there while you walk, build and mine, and hop off when you fall, enter water, go to sleep or take damage. Use the parrot to make it sit on a perch and stay put.

Parrots cannot be bred, so every bird you own is one you tamed. On a long trip, leave the ones you care about sitting at home: a shoulder parrot that hops off in a cave can easily get lost.

Music and mob warnings

Play a music disc in a jukebox and parrots nearby start to dance. More useful, parrots imitate the sounds of hostile mobs, more often when one is close. A Creeper hiss or a Zombie groan from your shoulder is worth a look around, even if it is sometimes just the parrot showing off.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026