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Loki has a new thing. When she wants to go to bed he starts shreaking until the light is turned off.
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learnincurve posted:Loki has a new thing. When she wants to go to bed he starts shreaking until the light is turned off.
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Nov 7, 2015 17:34
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Inko starts kissing about 15 minutes before sleep time and gets increasingly louder, and if you ask "want night?" he'll give a very loud kiss in reply and be incredibly enthusiastic about itJose Oquendo posted:Jesus gently caress can we keep this dumb anime visual novel dating sim poo poo out of here. It's been posted about before, it's bird related, just scroll over it.
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Nov 7, 2015 17:41
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Battle Pigeon posted:Inko starts kissing about 15 minutes before sleep time and gets increasingly louder, and if you ask "want night?" he'll give a very loud kiss in reply and be incredibly enthusiastic about it
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Nov 7, 2015 18:09
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Bonny puts her self to bed, she then makes nice parrot beak grinding noises.
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Nov 7, 2015 18:13
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That noise is the best. At this point it's kind of like a cat purring is, to me; that same kind of mellowing sense like "Bird is happy, world is good." EDIT: Ahahaha after I hit submit on that Judah did it so loud I could hear it six feet away or so  Good potato.
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Nov 7, 2015 18:15
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Beak grinding means you're not in immediate danger of being killed by your birb. That's why it's so pleasant to hear.
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Nov 7, 2015 18:35
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Tendai posted:Ahahaha that's so cute. "gently caress YEAH! TIME FOR BED! WOOHOO!" Yeah, at first we thought he was just getting agitated and begging, since we give him the remains of Steve's seed bowl before changing it at night. But he kisses after that, and only does the KYU! ethusiastic sound to Want Night? and gets pissed if you don't start covering him up. He also shuts up kissing after being covered. Guess he just loves his routine?
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Nov 7, 2015 18:37
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I've had birds who will put themselves to bed if you leave their cage door open. They'll crawl in all by themselves and start falling asleep and I'll get up and go cover them. Sometimes they'll say whatever their goodnight word is, sometimes they won't. I've also had birds that felt like I was wrestling with a 3 year old trying to get them to go to sleep. They'd start falling asleep wherever they were and if you went up and tried to get them to step up they'd get hissy and bitey and be little shits. Once they were on your finger they'd settle down and let you put them in their cage and cover them, sometimes with one more lunge at you to say goodnight. Of the two I much prefer the former.
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Nov 7, 2015 19:28
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Man, both of my cockatiels I've had as an adult have been chill about bed. Eriza didn't get into it like Judah but she was resigned at least. Judah, like I mentioned, makes it real fuckin' clear that it's time for bed and what am I doing god drat it.
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Nov 7, 2015 20:02
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Oh yeah, Max will walk through multiple rooms to climb into his cage and go to his sleep spot. When he's done, he's done.
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Nov 7, 2015 21:09
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Hal likes to eat grapes He also likes almond, rocket (arugula) and spinach. Sadly he turns his beak up at bananas though which sucks because that's the one fruit I always have in. He also likes preening my beard.
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Nov 7, 2015 22:14
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I went to my bird shop to visit their conures today and almost left with this handsome fellow. I think parrot guy may be the male version of a cat lady and I'm ok with that being my future.
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Nov 8, 2015 00:51
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oh my god look at that face
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Nov 8, 2015 01:03
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i poop fire posted:I went to my bird shop to visit their conures today and almost left with this handsome fellow. Oh my god what kind of bird is this? I want one! Also my wife says I can't have any more birds since I rescued Zippy and Bungle who are doing well. They occasionally come out on their own now! But they need close supervision since they haven't learned where to land when they fly yet. I don't want to clip them because as far as I know they've never been clipped, and generally I'm not in favor of clipping if the birds can stay safe.
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Nov 8, 2015 01:18
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Looks like one of the "mini macaws" to me
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Nov 8, 2015 01:22
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anotherblownsave posted:Oh my god what kind of bird is this? I want one! Also my wife says I can't have any more birds since I rescued Zippy and Bungle who are doing well. They occasionally come out on their own now! But they need close supervision since they haven't learned where to land when they fly yet. I don't want to clip them because as far as I know they've never been clipped, and generally I'm not in favor of clipping if the birds can stay safe.
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Nov 8, 2015 01:34
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anotherblownsave posted:Oh my god what kind of bird is this? Kenshin posted:Looks like a Severe Macaw. Yep. It's a Severe Macaw. They've hand-fed it since birth and he'll wave you over with his feet then roll over on his back like a puppy and play-fight with you.
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Nov 8, 2015 01:44
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Tendai posted:Looks like one of the "mini macaws" to me Yeah it is something in the macaw family, look at the face markings. Macaws are very pretty birds but my god are they terrifying. Those of you that own big birds, is it like dogs where bigger ones bite less and less hard unless they are proper trying to kill something?
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Nov 8, 2015 01:44
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Severe, Yellow-Collared and Hahn's macaws have always been seriously tempting for me in terms of a future larger-than-cockatiel parrot All the macaw attitude in a somewhat more compact body.
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Nov 8, 2015 01:45
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It's a macaw with GCC colors 
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Nov 8, 2015 02:17
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I wish there were that kind of parrot store around here in DC.
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Nov 8, 2015 02:22
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If i win lotto the first thing I'm doing is buying a macaw and retiring and spending all day with my giant bird.
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Nov 8, 2015 02:41
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Gotya has got me so sold on cockatiels, of course that would mean buying a farm as to not annoy my neighbours though.
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Nov 8, 2015 02:49
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GoldStandardConure posted:If i win lotto the first thing I'm doing is buying a macaw and retiring and spending all day with my giant bird. For me it'd be a gigantic penthouse condo in one of the new buildings that'll overlook the marina that I could convert like, two-thirds of into an aviary. And I could harness-train birds and take them down to the boat and go out on the water with them~ I'd be the mad bird king of the Capitol Waterfront.
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Nov 8, 2015 02:54
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GoldStandardConure posted:If i win lotto the first thing I'm doing is buying a macaw and retiring and spending all day with my giant bird.
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Nov 8, 2015 03:03
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Trebuchet King posted:I wish there were that kind of parrot store around here in DC. There's one out in Chantilly that we used to go to a lot when we lived there! DJ Feathers Aviary. They have a ton of toys and stuff
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Nov 8, 2015 03:21
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Toast has recently discovered HER SHADOW. It is a very dangerous enemy who usually lurks near the wall on top of her cage. She has tried squeaking and puffing up to scare it away, as well as lunging. It seems immune to even her best bite attacks! She has taken to trying to alert me to its presence (flying back and forth between me and THE SHADOW and squeaking insistently) but my presence just seems to make it bigger and more threatening! She's also figured out how to detach the bell from one of her bell toys so if I'm taking too long to wake up in the morning, she doesn't even have to stay in the one place jingling the wake-up bell - she can take it with her while she eats seed or pellets, has a drink, and demolishes the chewing box I made for her  (The chewing box is very popular, it's made of 1/4 of a torn-up cereal box filled with the rest of the cereal box, more cereal boxes, tissues, remains of tissue boxes, ALDI catalogues, paper cranes, and other miscellaneous bits of cardboard and paper.)
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Nov 8, 2015 03:43
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:Macaws are very pretty birds but my god are they terrifying. Those of you that own big birds, is it like dogs where bigger ones bite less and less hard unless they are proper trying to kill something? Teeka doesn't bite me because I know how to handle him, not because he's confident as a big bird or whatever. I can read his body language and know how to pick him up and how he moves around and that doing certain specific behaviors (usually involving fingats near beek) will almost always result in a chomp. He does nip instead of biting on occasion, but I find that is something of a rarity. I don't really have experience with conures so maybe they're more bitey, but I get the impression that biteyness is independent of bird size. i poop fire posted:I went to my bird shop to visit their conures today and almost left with this handsome fellow. What a handsome young lad! I would have been hard pressed not to walk out with him either. He looks pretty young, I bet he's gonna be super regal when he gets older.
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Nov 8, 2015 03:53
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Dang, that place looks cool, but there's like no way I could get out there without planning my day around it.
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Nov 8, 2015 03:57
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Eejit posted:
Lovebirds are smaller than cockatiels and are well known for being horrifying bite monsters  Toast is bitier than Bitey (who was actually not very Bitey) which is part of my suspicion for why she's a girl birb. (In my experience girl lovebirbs are bitier than boys, much like rats.)
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Nov 8, 2015 03:58
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:Yeah it is something in the macaw family, look at the face markings. LOL no, they bite harder, much much harder, how often is just training like any bird. A big difference is how they bite, Grey's and Amazons (love birds fall in this as well, just not as bad) with their smaller sharper beaks will ripe flesh while a macaw will just chomp down and give you a massive bruise (with beak punctures). But what it comes down to is training, and understanding what the bird is trying to say, but you will get hit, then its just a matter of not reacting at all. Bonny has only gotten me once. I wanted to see what she was trying to tell me (her last owner played rough and "teased" her in a playful way and I was not sure if she was trying to play or not). Edit: Bonus photo of my other two and Bonny, that toy in Bonny's cage was 1 hour old.  
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Nov 8, 2015 06:01
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That steering wheel controller would be a good toy for a bird. I think every parrot in this thread would agree.
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Nov 8, 2015 07:20
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Me IRL.
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Nov 8, 2015 12:23
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gaston put his wings out to scare the cats and i tried to touch his wing and he gave me the look that says "what the gently caress are you doing"
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Nov 8, 2015 13:30
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But did you manage to touch it?
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Nov 8, 2015 13:34
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rip Dreggon's hand 
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Nov 8, 2015 13:35
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Is there some kind of bird thread medal of honor because Dreggon deserves it for risking his fingats  BUT NOT UNTIL HE TAKES MORE PICTURES.
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Nov 8, 2015 15:02
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Tendai posted:Is there some kind of bird thread medal of honor because Dreggon deserves it for risking his fingats Purple Heart?
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GoldStandardConure posted:Purple Heart?
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