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Shirec posted:Bird crazies, I need your advice. I’ve gotten a job offer that will land me in either Houston or NYC. I don’t know anything about what it would be like to have parrots (Nanday and GCC) in that area. I'm in Houston, parrots and birds are fine down here. Don't know about birds and roommates though.
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Ah I wasn't as worried about Houston tbh. NYC though, that's a whole other ball park. Cute tweet as payment for advice https://twitter.com/MakenaNut/status/1006568507327197185
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Jun 12, 2018 22:34
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I mean, finding a roommate with birds (already) would at least solve some problems 
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Jun 12, 2018 23:30
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Conures in NYC shouldn't be a problem either. Quakers are the ones that can get tricky, they're illegal in several northeastern states (landlords probably wouldn't know or care, but if you're flying into Newark the authorities there might).
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Jun 13, 2018 00:08
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New York is a huge cluster of a place to live. That's the place I'd research. Then avoid. For the rest of my life.
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Jun 13, 2018 00:31
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i've fallen in love with something very small and often overlooked in aviculture  them!
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Jun 13, 2018 04:47
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this broken hill posted:i've fallen in love with something very small and often overlooked in aviculture peep peep
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Jun 13, 2018 06:01
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I should open an Etsy shop and begin producing pillows.
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Jun 13, 2018 17:56
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What are those fat balls with beaks on em?
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Jun 13, 2018 18:27
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this broken hill posted:i've fallen in love with something very small and often overlooked in aviculture They're so round
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Jun 13, 2018 18:29
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  Super chill mourning dove (I think) that's nested in a parts box in my stepdad's leanto off the garage. They've already had at least one chick hatch, and they keep adding to the nest. Is that normal? How long will they hang out anyway. In northern PA, specifically. Kitfox88 fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jun 13, 2018 |
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Jun 13, 2018 21:41
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Kitfox88 posted:
That is indeed a mourning dove, and if it seems like a good nesting place, they may be there for quite a while. Mourning doves breed rapidly and will breed year-round if food supplies last, sometimes as many as six broods a year. They kinda need to, given that they're slow, stupid, and eaten by pretty much everything.
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Jun 13, 2018 22:25
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Kitfox88 posted:
Mourning doves are prolific breeders. They can have up to 6 clutches of 2 eggs each in one breeding season which can last until October.
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Jun 13, 2018 23:10
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New bird cage was delivered to me yesterday. I spent this morning putting it together, despite instructions in broken English with only a diagram of the finished product. It's big and lovely and great! There is way more space in there than a pair of cockatiels needs! They're both pretty sure it's from the devil.
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Jun 13, 2018 23:21
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Halloween Jack posted:What are those fat balls with beaks on em?
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Jun 13, 2018 23:44
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Well the place they built the nest is high up under a roof and blocking most wind so I guess we have some mourning dove tenants through fall. I had no idea they bred so fast though.
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Kitfox88 posted:Well the place they built the nest is high up under a roof and blocking most wind so I guess we have some mourning dove tenants through fall. I had no idea they bred so fast though. They are a dumb, slow-moving prey species of bird. They survive and indeed thrive mainly by reproducing so prolifically.
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Jun 14, 2018 00:26
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It's cute but also sad when a creature's role in the ecology is "get eaten." Except mosquitoes. Being bird food is their only redeeming feature.
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Cythereal posted:They are a dumb, slow-moving prey species of bird. They survive and indeed thrive mainly by reproducing so prolifically. Well, the tall-rear end pines about 30 feet from their nest have some bigass vultures nesting in them so we'll see how long the doves last. 
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Kitfox88 posted:Well, the tall-rear end pines about 30 feet from their nest have some bigass vultures nesting in them so we'll see how long the doves last. They may be fine in that respect, vultures very rarely attack other birds. And, frankly, that's a much more defensible nest than usual for doves - they will happily nest on the ground in a scratched out little spot of dirt. These are not intelligent birds.
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Jun 14, 2018 02:04
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I'm not sure what's going on but i think they're telling me to get off their street. The brown one is their leader. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC42NwzWYqY
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Halloween Jack posted:What are those fat balls with beaks on em? Chinese painted quail! I had some for a short while. Angry little beepers. 
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little_firebird posted:Chinese painted quail! I had some for a short while. Angry little beepers. Oh my God, the thought of an angry self-righteous quail makes me
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Jun 14, 2018 21:52
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One bird has accepted the new cage. Ozzy is quite content. Sera, however, won't touch the thing. Well. Small steps.
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Jun 15, 2018 01:58
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Be glad woodpeckers are not considered good pets. https://i.imgur.com/eJ0e2xr.mp4
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I just saw the most amazing bird thing. I was feeding the currawongs some fruit and the rosellas some seeds, there was some magpies hanging around but they're not big on fruit or seeds. Then they all went BALLISTIC, full alarm mode - 1 bird to the top of every tree - maybe 100 birds, huge area covered, i've counted 35 wongers, 25 rosies before but they came from everywhere. A couple magpies followed suit., Then i heard a tee off and they all stopped. After the first bit where all the birds went insane it was just the ones around the 1st tee which were still going - but all the rest of them were on the tops of trees watching and full stick mode. I think they saw a new golfer and went insane until they realised he was just there to play golf?? Also i saw something that looked like a kooka but much smaller. I need to find a pic.
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Jun 15, 2018 04:24
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Magpies like sunflower seeds but you have to shell them by hand for them to eat them. When I holidayed in Denmark WA, I had a wild magpie that would sit on my knee and wait for me to shell sunflower seeds for them.
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Jun 15, 2018 06:14
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Baby society finches! I went for a weekend trip and they turned from little bird fetus to little bird babies with growing feathers and everything  
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Cythereal posted:Be glad woodpeckers are not considered good pets. Bird - "This tree BLOWS!"
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iRend posted:I just saw the most amazing bird thing. They could have been freaking out about the kingfisher too. Other birds go mental when a kookaburra is around as their favourite food is baby birds and eggs. Crows etc also like to eat baby birds and eggs but are usually opportunistic - kookas will actively seek them out and can kill/injure parents to get their tasty babies. They will often freak out at smaller kingfishers because they look enough like a kookaburra to be alarming. Whenever the local breeding pair of kookaburras back home is in the area, all the other birds start shrieking and tackling or swooping them mid air. The only thing that gets them more riled up is a goanna.
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Lady Galaga posted:Baby society finches! I went for a weekend trip and they turned from little bird fetus to little bird babies with growing feathers and everything proud parent.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:They could have been freaking out about the kingfisher too. Other birds go mental when a kookaburra is around as their favourite food is baby birds and eggs. Crows etc also like to eat baby birds and eggs but are usually opportunistic - kookas will actively seek them out and can kill/injure parents to get their tasty babies. They will often freak out at smaller kingfishers because they look enough like a kookaburra to be alarming. This one time I saw a kookaburra snatch a pigeon mid-flight and hammer it against a tree. Birds, man.
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Bandit has a new favorite game. It’s called Chase the Cockatiel. When I let Bandit out she bobs furiously for me to put her on top of the cockatiel cage because the breeder gave her a light clip so she wouldn’t hit a window at full speed while fledging. She then chases the unsuspecting cockatiel until they fly onto my head at which point she starts bobbing furiously for me to pick her up so she can chase the cockatiel off my shoulder. The game ends when the cockatiel flees back into its cage and Bandit stands triumphant.
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The post-bath Senegal so noble
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So my African Grey managed to rip out a piece of tile off the bathroom wall. He managed to find a little gap to get his beak into and ripped it right out.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:The post-bath Senegal Your feather squid got wet.
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Jose Oquendo posted:So my African Grey managed to rip out a piece of tile off the bathroom wall. He managed to find a little gap to get his beak into and ripped it right out. Is bird, can't fix
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Jose Oquendo posted:So my African Grey managed to rip out a piece of tile off the bathroom wall. He managed to find a little gap to get his beak into and ripped it right out. Working as intended (gently caress you)
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