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Potato Salad posted:How is skillet adapting? S/he seemed pretty chill around you the last time you posted pictures, too. Skillet's doing really well! He took a while to get comfortable with his surroundings but he was comfortable with being around us and interested in what we were doing from the get-go. He was quiet and pretty low-key on playing for the first week but he's gotten louder and more playful as time went on and now he's running around his cage, climbing all over everything, and making an unbelievable racket. We've been whistling and singing at him since we brought him home and he's become quite the little songbird, though his freestyle elements are questionable. He likes to shred things and ring the bells in his cage, usually while whistling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQi2jUbs6UY We've got him whistling some familiar parts of tunes but he gets through the parts he hasn't figured out yet by either screaming really loud or making a vaguely musical trilling sound, like he's mumbling along to the words and hoping we don't notice.  Overall, he is a very loud and vocal bird and I can already see we are going to have to work hard to not let him develop a bad screaming habit. He can put a lot of noise out of those tiny bird lungs! Yeesh. He is a little nippy, but we're working on it.other observations: He's pretty indifferent about bathing. He gets over things he's afraid of pretty quickly. We have had no problems getting him to eat pellets, and haven't had much trouble introducing him to fresh food. Radish greens seem to be his favorite, followed by radishes they're attached to, and then green beans. He also likes to chomp on a good piece of lettuce. I don't think he cares much for fruit.
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daily taco thank 
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Oct 1, 2015 04:54
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More birds please. Thank you for your compliance.
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Oct 1, 2015 05:17
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flock of assholes woke me up to go out and feed them in the cold this morning pictures if they do it again tomorrow
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:He's small, even for a GCC. teeny birb. Pocket sized. All the better to fit next to your hand (or on) when using computer! Shirec posted:
 Mirthless posted:Just chilling with my home skillet He's really cute and sounds like an awesome bird. Talkative (not screamy) birds are hilarious to listen to warble away in their little schizophrenic voices. You got lucky with him RE food and pellets too! Potato Salad posted:Holy loving poo poo, what?!? ?? GoldStandardConure posted:daily taco Oh hey b
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Oct 1, 2015 14:48
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Battle Pigeon posted:Talkative (not screamy) birds are hilarious to listen to warble away in their little schizophrenic voices. I really love that noise, like he's just kind of mumbling and chattering to someone I can't see. Sometimes he gets sort of offended-looking if I answer back, like I interrupted the conversation.
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Oct 1, 2015 14:55
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I should be grateful, esp having three shitheads in an apartment, that if one of us humans are around then 90% of the time the birds are silent or just make the occasional wark. If we're out of the room then they're generally still quiet though occasionally have bouts of squawking and the occasional yell to see if anyone is around. They've been trained out of screaming pretty successfully though I really wouldn't have minded if Steve turned out to be talkative though, cockatiel talking noises are really cute, both the actual words and the fake attempts at sounding like conversation. Inko is the most noisy and he mostly just makes bitching noises and clucks and squeaks with the odd word thrown in there to try and get attention (Late last night after birbs were covered I was boiling the kettle, the sound of which Inko hates for some reason. All was silent and just as it was about to click off and done, out of the darkness the other end of the apartment comes "DOIN BABY  " )
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Oct 1, 2015 15:06
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IMO the single best parrot for 'randomly talks in it's own language' is budgies. I could sit and listen to a bunch of budgies burbling with each other for HOURS.
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Oct 1, 2015 15:19
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Battle Pigeon posted:I should be grateful, esp having three shitheads in an apartment, that if one of us humans are around then 90% of the time the birds are silent or just make the occasional wark. If we're out of the room then they're generally still quiet though occasionally have bouts of squawking and the occasional yell to see if anyone is around. They've been trained out of screaming pretty successfully though Also, "DOIN BABY " made me lose my poo poo giggling. Covered birds talking for some reason just amuses me. When I walk by Judah when it's dark and he's asleep but I'm up, and he says something in that little cockatiel voice (usually a very inquisitive "pretty bird?") it's just great
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Oct 1, 2015 15:26
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Agent355 posted:IMO the single best parrot for 'randomly talks in it's own language' is budgies. I could sit and listen to a bunch of budgies burbling with each other for HOURS. Yeah, I love budgie noises. As much appeal as the concept of a 'too has, space-wise I'm pretty much limited to a conure or a couple budgies. There's a petco (petsmart?) near my local Target and sometimes I go in just to watch/listen to the budgies.
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Agent355 posted:IMO the single best parrot for 'randomly talks in it's own language' is budgies. I could sit and listen to a bunch of budgies burbling with each other for HOURS. Agreed. I love listening to my little fluffy jerks just chatting with each other. Budgies are just painfully adorable in general. I caught mine fluffed up and grinding their beaks just now and my heart melted. Here's a terrible tablet camera snap of Gnosis: 
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Trebuchet King posted:Yeah, I love budgie noises. As much appeal as the concept of a 'too has, space-wise I'm pretty much limited to a conure or a couple budgies. There's a petco (petsmart?) near my local Target and sometimes I go in just to watch/listen to the budgies. A flock of wild budgies lives on the campus of the university where I work. Most mornings when I walk in to work it's to the sound of cheepcheepcheepcheepcheepcheepcheepcheepcheepcheep.
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Oct 1, 2015 16:25
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My budgie starts to sing like a canary, the canary goes "ooh loud noises competition", which he always wins, and then the budgie sits there chuttering and beak grinding in a sulk.
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Oct 1, 2015 16:42
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I really have my heart set on getting a large parrot someday. Probably an african grey, I would just love to own something smarter than a child. But man, if I didn't intend to get a large parrot I would just fill my house with budgies and be content. Best small bird.
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Oct 1, 2015 17:07
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Showed Inko Ohtori's old happy hut, he was nervous of it so I got Ohtori out and carried him around in it to show Inko. Ohtori apparently got horny and was posturing and regurgitating and pinning at Inko, still in the hut a bird's length from him. Inko first tried threatening back, then got nervous, then apparently confused, tried touching beaks (they managed twice but I took Ohtori away, not wanting to risk biting down from either), and finally attempted to put his head down for scratches from someone, anyone because wtf is going on So I held Ohtori up to Inko and Ohtori tried to preen Inko Instant GOOD BIRDs and treats all around. It would be a long time before I'd put Ohtori down and let him walk up to Inko though you don't fool me birdE: fukkin lmfao     
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Oct 1, 2015 18:30
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Battle Pigeon posted:Inko first tried threatening back, then got nervous, then apparently confused, tried touching beaks, and finally attempted to put his head down for scratches from someone, anyone because wtf is going on Because right thereEDIT oh jesus christ if people don't enlarge those pictures they are missing the amazing details of Ohtori's gently caress-me face. Every time I look at his face in the third one I lose it again.
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Oct 1, 2015 18:54
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Battle Pigeon posted:Showed Inko Ohtori's old happy hut, he was nervous of it so I got Ohtori out and carried him around in it to show Inko. Ohtori apparently got horny and was posturing and regurgitating and pinning at Inko, still in the hut a bird's length from him. Inko first tried threatening back, then got nervous, then apparently confused, tried touching beaks (they managed twice but I took Ohtori away, not wanting to risk biting down from either), and finally attempted to put his head down for scratches from someone, anyone because wtf is going on Hahaha, this is great. It's hard for me to get used to birds w/o dark eyes. Ohtori can give some good crazy face.
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Oct 1, 2015 19:30
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Shirec posted:Hahaha, this is great. It's hard for me to get used to birds w/o dark eyes. Ohtori can give some good crazy face.
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Oct 1, 2015 19:31
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 Mindo was having quite the crisis this morning. After taking his bowl of hunger strike worthy peach and pear to clean it, I tossed a blueberry up on the stand he refuses to use. Then it was 5-10 minutes of OMG OMG OMG OMG and trying to figure out how to get it without actually approaching it. He was on top of his cage when I went to get the camera, but then he wouldn't cooperate. Eventually I gave in and fed it to him.
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Oct 1, 2015 19:45
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Shirec posted:Hahaha, this is great. It's hard for me to get used to birds w/o dark eyes. Ohtori can give some good crazy face. Senegals are my favorite light-eyed birds, they always look surprised about something when they pin.  HUH?!?!
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Oct 1, 2015 20:02
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SaNChEzZ posted:Senegals are my favorite light-eyed birds, they always look surprised about something when they pin.
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Oct 1, 2015 20:11
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 Excited Sennie you say? Max loves them jalas. One more, even more excited by the burbling budgies nearby: 
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Oct 1, 2015 21:12
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artichoke posted:
I think I agree with Tendai, Max straight up looks like he is contemplating murder most foul. After he finishes this delicious, delicious treat
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Oct 1, 2015 21:25
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I imagine their internal monologue is just a continuous, high-pitched buzzing noise
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Oct 1, 2015 21:43
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It's because unless you're their designated buddy they are plotting to kill you.
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Oct 1, 2015 21:54
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Yesterday my husband came home and laid down on the bed to rest a little. Max was on his chair in the bedroom and just stared at him while making these low, whispery non-words (sounded like Mshemma-shem, washka bashessu shu-shu) like he was trying to figure out the fastest way to kill my husband before I stopped him. Eventually some crows appeared outside and he was distracted for good. Right now he is head-behind-wing-one-footin-power-nappin' it, looking like a big green teardrop.
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Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:It's because unless you're their designated buddy they are plotting to kill you. Quakers are the same. Bobby asks my brother for scratches whenever he see him verbally (something he never does with me), waits until the finger is millimeters away, and clamps down as hard as he can. Only my brother too, never anyone else who meets him.
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Oct 1, 2015 22:04
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Not a bird, but I saved this little guy from the road today http://imgur.com/9GDwKwg
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I imagine the soundtrack to that is just "AAAAGH." "AAAAGH." repeated over and over again. PS Are there moths that are dangerous for parrots to eat because I'm pretty sure I just saw Judah bite a chunk out of one that landed briefly in his cage (we are having a small problem in this town with giantfuckingmoths that are red) Dreggon posted:flock of assholes woke me up to go out and feed them in the cold this morning I don't see pictures. So either they did it and you didn't take pictures in which case you LIED TO THE BIRD THREAD or they didn't do it in which case you should feed them and take pictures anyhow.
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Tendai posted:EDIT oh jesus christ if people don't enlarge those pictures they are missing the amazing details of Ohtori's gently caress-me face. Every time I look at his face in the third one I lose it again. I really hate to ruin your view of him because it's hilarious but that isn't his gently caress-me face, that's his murder-face. Or at least his aggression pose and look-which to be fair he does frequently combine with his, ah, amorous advances towards Steve (and sometimes humans) His gently caress-me face is basically his normal one, sometimes partly covered in vomit, with a very determined expression as he reverses into whoever or whatever is his current target Either way agreed that he gives excellent crazy-face and dinosaur rage poses artichoke posted:
Confirmed, Senegals have even more excellent crazy-face H110Hawk posted:
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Battle Pigeon posted:I really hate to ruin your view of him because it's hilarious but that isn't his gently caress-me face, that's his murder-face. Or at least his aggression pose and look-which to be fair he does frequently combine with his, ah, amorous advances towards Steve (and sometimes humans)
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Oct 2, 2015 16:46
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Finn is going to the vet. he freaked out in his cage and broke a blood feather
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anotherblownsave posted:Finn is going to the vet. I hope Finn is ok! Any reason he freaked out, or just random bird crazy?
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Oct 2, 2015 17:24
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anotherblownsave posted:Finn is going to the vet. Hopefully everything goes fine with Finn and as I write this he's just a grumpy potato who had to go to the vet and is sulking in his cage.
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poor Finn Be sure to get him some extra millet to get his little birdbrain off the indignity he had to suffer at the vets...
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Oct 2, 2015 20:30
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Oh god, I'm trying to watch tv on the iPad and every time I hit play Drama starts to babble along with it, then the canary goes "YAY TIME TO SING ALONG SEE HOW LOUD I CAN SING EVERYONE! LALALA TWEETY TEWEETY EEEEEE TWEEE TWIT TWIT TWEEET" and the budgie goes "HEY EVERYONE IM SHOUTING TOO! IM SHOUTING YOU ARE SHOUTING WE ARE ALL SHOUTING YAY!" at which point the tiels who are trying to sleep start shrieking at them to shut the gently caress up and then I can no longer hear the program.
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THAT THREAD TITLE It's well worth reading up on blood feathers and how to restrain bird in case there's a next time-it's nerve wracking but actually pretty easy to deal with yourself if you have the confidence. Just restrain bird, get small pliers, hold the area in place, and pull out firmly as close to the skin as possible. It will hurt bird and probably bruise but it's necessary. Apply styptic powder, or flour if you don't have any. Feed millet or other treat as appropriate. Tendai posted:Parrot relationships are so complex     
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Battle Pigeon posted:Confirmed, Senegals have even more excellent crazy-face Yet unlike other parrots the crazy-face is a cover for being really loving lazy and boring. Well, at least Charlie is like that. It's like if he looks crazy no one will bother him while he just sits there staring off into space.
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