I totally understand your fear. Later during that same dinner, Barbosa hopped up onto my step-sons shoulder and he froze in fear and ended up getting bitten. Birds sense and react to fear. I got bitten a few times by these guys and then I figured out that it does hurt, but I'm not gonna lose any fingers, so I can handle them. Since my fear is gone, they don't bite me anymore. They are hilarious, though.