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Tendai posted:Another Judah outtake I WANT TO PET AND HUG (why are they so small cannot hug)
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Sociopastry posted:birbs love boobs. It's not even my boobs! Those are like impediments to the ultimate goal of armpit. Kiwi just gets in there and either breathes heavily or does this weird beak vibrating thing. It sounds like a little pervert lives in my shirt. I wish I could get a video of it. She is the most co-dependent bird. She went from not being able to be touched to where she won't even sit on my finger because she wants to be under my chin snuggling.
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May 12, 2016 19:34
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Shirec posted:It's not even my boobs! Those are like impediments to the ultimate goal of armpit. Kiwi just gets in there and either breathes heavily or does this weird beak vibrating thing. It sounds like a little pervert lives in my shirt. I wish I could get a video of it. She is the most co-dependent bird. She went from not being able to be touched to where she won't even sit on my finger because she wants to be under my chin snuggling. Yep. Bird, my armpit sweat and deodorant is not for licking you gross creature!
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May 12, 2016 19:48
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Sociopastry posted:I love my birds so much. I love just sitting and watching them. They're such characters. There's one part of their cage that used to hold an extra food dish, but now is just an empty holder thing and they loving love it. Fuji likes to try to open it, and Echo loves to sit on it and do flips around the base of it. So cute. Shirec posted:Judah is always who I think about when I think of cockatiels. He is just the most precious.  That makes me really happy. He's a good little potato, even his moments like spring hormone time (RIGHT NOW) are pretty low-key in comparison to others I've read about. I wish I remembered the name of his breeder in Arizona because man, if I ever get another I would go to that guy without hesitation. He made a good birb.nielsm posted:I WANT TO PET AND HUG 
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May 12, 2016 19:55
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Tendai posted:Petting is acceptable, hugging will get you stinkeye and beak whacks, Judah has a complicated relationship with hands. He's incredibly suspicious of them (like he won't step up onto a hand, only an arm, just flat out refuses), while at the same time recognizing that they will scratch and pet his neck and preen his crest, so at that point they are okay. well if he's standing on a hand how can it scratch and pet and preen
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May 12, 2016 21:09
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DarkHorse posted:Budgerigar, I choose you! I showed this to a friend and they said the budgie is probably trying to mate with the ball. Is that, uh, true?
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May 12, 2016 22:24
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khwarezm posted:I showed this to a friend and they said the budgie is probably trying to mate with the ball. Is that, uh, true? Yes.
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May 12, 2016 22:26
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Inko at 06:15 exactly: HEY BABY!! Inko at 08:00 exactly: REEEEE Inko at 00:21: nomnomnomnom birdie nomnomnom Tendai posted:Petting is acceptable, hugging will get you stinkeye and beak whacks, Judah has a complicated relationship with hands. He's incredibly suspicious of them (like he won't step up onto a hand, only an arm, just flat out refuses), while at the same time recognizing that they will scratch and pet his neck and preen his crest, so at that point they are okay. What about head boops
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May 12, 2016 23:22
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Are Ama's talons a little long?
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May 13, 2016 00:31
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Yeah they are, I've been putting off cutting them because I got his quick last time and felt extraordinarily guilty  e: and now I feel guilty that I've been putting off cutting my bird's nails WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME e2: and I can't even go do them now because he's in bed LITERALLY A BIRD fucked around with this message at 00:37 on May 13, 2016 |
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May 13, 2016 00:33
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Battle Pigeon posted:What about head boops  but it's + really. So I boop him on the head and go "bonk bonk bonk" so he fusses and then I preen his crest
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May 13, 2016 00:49
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hue hue hue mission success
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May 13, 2016 00:56
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Milly just hijacked my drinking cup to take a very contorted budgie bath!
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May 13, 2016 04:31
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Khizan posted:As a non-bird-haver, I am curious. If you have two birds, one hand-tame and one not, can the untame one sort of learn by watching? Sort of a "holy poo poo, that guy steps on the finger and then BAM HE GETS A BLUEBERRY! I love blueberries! COME HERE MAGIC BLUEBERRY FINGER!" type of thing? I have a ringneck (shimi) that I've had since I was a kid, shes outlived all my other birds. She was bitey as all hell when we got her despite being handraised and attacked my dads ringneck to the point he needed plastic surgery to stop him being blind/getting infected and dying. I've looked after her since the Quaker I had as a kid, who was awesome to me and got out one day when my little brother decided to give him treats and didn't close the cage right, he was like 8-9. She got more bitey because Yoda (the quaker) was incredibly aggressive to anyone that wasn't me because I was the only one who ever handled him. With my second Quaker, Kimi, she kinda calmed down a bit. Kimi was a very quiet and gentle bird but she got cagebound when I broke my leg shortly after getting her and hated being inside to the point I was scared I was going to scare her to death because she was that stressed, so she spent a lot of time outdoors. Again I was the only one to handle her, but not as much as a bird would normally get. She was happy to chill in her cage and scream at the Indian neighbours across the street and get a scratch whenever I walked past. Kimi ended up getting eaten by a snake who bent the bars on the cage to get to her. Shimi now lives in Kimis old cage because her one got rusty. My Quake that I have now, Bobby, is a lot more friendly to everyone else and is past the critical age for Quakers were they turn into assholes if they haven't been socialised enough so he's still friendly to people who aren't me. Shimi has calmed down a tonne. She lets me touch her through the bars, she accepts food, she doesn't freak out when people are right up next to her cage. We moved and I haven't got the snakeproof walls built up here yet that I had at the other house, so the birds are behind barriers but they are open topped. Shimi was a bird that would attack anything that came near her cage, today I came out to the cages to put Bobby away and some little wild wagtails had pushed themselves through the bend in the bars the snake made and she was just sitting with them. I was seriously contemplating giving her away to a rescue at the start of the year because I'd given up on ever taming her again but she's made a huge amount of progress. underage at the vape shop fucked around with this message at 04:44 on May 13, 2016 |
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May 13, 2016 04:41
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Sociopastry posted:birbs love boobs. This was one of the reasons I got a lovebird:  Though oddly, while Bitey loved hiding in boobs (and crawling into sleeves and collars and pockets for a snooze), Toast doesn't like doing it at all. Though if I'm wearing a low-neckline dress he'll sometimes dive in, have a look around under my boobs, then come back out (?????). Maybe it is just the wild-coloured peachies that like ensconcing themselves in boobs. Also, during nesting season, the bush turkeys at QUT like to roost in low branches and swoop people. It is very surprising to many people that they're able to swoop (or even fly).
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May 13, 2016 04:55
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Wrecking Ball posted:Milly just hijacked my drinking cup to take a very contorted budgie bath! Toast does this whenever my back is turned. I wanted to drink that soy milk!!!!! Now there is bird in my soy milk and soy milk in my bird!!!!!!!!
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May 13, 2016 05:38
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I do not have moobs for bobby to play in so instead he hangs upside down at the end of my shirt and pokes his head out, so I have an upside down bird head tail.
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May 13, 2016 05:44
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:This was one of the reasons I got a lovebird: Ahahahahha that's awesome. Person who was worried about their bird going crazy after a day of no socialization - I wouldn't stress too much. I hate myself for this and will always carry it as a mark of shame but I used to be a nasty alcoholic and put my birds through a lot. I had two parakeets, rest in peace Chuck and Tito and I still have Wandy. When I lived alone in Kansas I had some close call hospital visits in which the birds went a few days without me. That is the mark of shame thing that I hate myself for. I let them sit in my apartment without interaction or fresh food while I was writhing around on a gurney in a hospital. I'm so loving ashamed and I'm OK telling my fellow bird crazies. But it goes to show your birds will not absolutely collapse with a few days of no attention. They will get pissy though. I remember one time I was picking up Wandy, the cockatiel, from my friend after a short visit to another city. Wandy came out of the cage, looked at me, and then turned her back on me and started making angry noises. After about five minutes she gave up on her snub and was under my chin. Also I've been sober for over two years. Yay!
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May 13, 2016 05:50
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Whenever I abandon Toast overnight or with a friend for a weekend, he is just full of joy that I'm back and proceeds to try to spew on me and my fingers (his fat pink baby birds) as much as he can. He's not very bright though (to say the least...) so he might not have the brainpower to be traumatised by being on his lonesome for however many hours.
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May 13, 2016 09:32
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Most people who know Toast IRL are pretty sure he's a little bit special He's cuddly and loves people (and biting) but doesn't seem to learn anywhere near as quickly as other birds. He's got Step Up down pat, but it took him a long time to learn it, and he still hasn't mastered Come Here. Bitey got both of those down in the short time I had him, as well as Drop That, and was getting much better at not biting (by being put in the cage on timeout for 5 minutes). He still hasn't figured out Hot (or that hot cups of tea or bowls of soup are Hot) despite many, many, many opportunities to do so  (Again, something Bitey picked up pretty quick.) I've tried making the most basic of foraging toys for him (a spray of millet, shown to him, covered in a tissue while he watches) and he just looks and squeaks or bites me, then ignores it.He's a very cute bird and I wouldn't give him up for anything, but he's definitely not the sharpest lightbulb in the picnic basket. e: If I whistle at him though, he always whistles back, so that's nice 
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May 13, 2016 09:37
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Fuji and Echo are generally okay if I'm not around, but I think it helps that I'm home a lot of the time so it's rare for me to actually leave them alone for too long.
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May 13, 2016 10:40
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Tendai posted:Acceptable. Well. It irritates him and he gets all Sometimes if Steve is in a good mood I can boop him with my palm and he'll act like he's being petted for a while and it's really cute. He doesn't like his crest being touched much though even for removing feather casings, you have to build up goodwill by preening elsewhere then quickly rush and try to get a few feathers before he gets lovely
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May 13, 2016 11:52
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I love cockatiels. Steve and Judah are like derpbros
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May 13, 2016 14:31
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My vet office informed me that Jabari made the staff uncomfortable last Saturday. While at the vet, Jabari calmly told the person trimming his nails, "I'll kill you," and alternated between maniacal laughter and that creepy sound from The Grudge while his carrier was in the backroom.
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May 13, 2016 15:10
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Official Bizness posted:My vet office informed me that Jabari made the staff uncomfortable last Saturday. While at the vet, Jabari calmly told the person trimming his nails, "I'll kill you," and alternated between maniacal laughter and that creepy sound from The Grudge while his carrier was in the backroom. If Max is anything to go by, they really are that upset by the combination of vets and a nail trim.
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May 13, 2016 15:46
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Interesting video on using birds to improve flight of drones. Includes lots of slow motion lovebirds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfAHXY97kTA
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May 13, 2016 16:12
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Pearl is celebrating her 18th birthday today! She's unwrapped her presents and is taking advantage of the fact that we have the morning off of work. She'll probably steal some food from us later-- she pulled a waterlogged piece of leftover naan from the sink last week.    
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May 13, 2016 16:46
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Captain Log posted:Person who was worried about their bird going crazy after a day of no socialization - I wouldn't stress too much. I love how we all know the birds in this thread on sight but it's hard to keep the humans straight.
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greypearl posted:Pearl is celebrating her 18th birthday today! She's unwrapped her presents and is taking advantage of the fact that we have the morning off of work. She'll probably steal some food from us later-- she pulled a waterlogged piece of leftover naan from the sink last week. harpy birdday pearl! e: bird claws update: I have such a Good Bird, he hates getting his nails done but no matter how upset he gets he never ever bites. It would be a lot easier on both of us if I had smaller clippers (he'll give me his foot for a few seconds at a time before he gets all TIME'S UP and tries to climb up my arm again but I can't always get them at the right angle fast enough), but I have standard veterinary-issue small bird nail clippers, his feet are just so drat tiny LITERALLY A BIRD fucked around with this message at 17:42 on May 13, 2016 |
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May 13, 2016 16:51
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      greypearl posted:Pearl is celebrating her 18th birthday today! She's unwrapped her presents and is taking advantage of the fact that we have the morning off of work. She'll probably steal some food from us later-- she pulled a waterlogged piece of leftover naan from the sink last week. Happy birthday to her LITERALLY A BIRD posted:e: bird claws update: I have such a Good Bird, he hates getting his nails done but no matter how upset he gets he never ever bites. It would be a lot easier on both of us if I had smaller clippers (he'll give me his foot for a few seconds at a time before he gets all TIME'S UP and tries to climb up my arm again but I can't always get them at the right angle fast enough), but I have standard veterinary-issue small bird nail clippers, his feet are just so drat tiny Nail file?
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May 13, 2016 19:58
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your birds  re: nail file: I don't think I have enough hands I will give it a try next time though!
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May 13, 2016 20:26
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Official Bizness posted:My vet office informed me that Jabari made the staff uncomfortable last Saturday. While at the vet, Jabari calmly told the person trimming his nails, "I'll kill you," and alternated between maniacal laughter and that creepy sound from The Grudge while his carrier was in the backroom. Hahahaha birds are so drat great. I love that birds might not totally get the meaning of the words but they certainly get the general vibe of good or bad.
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May 13, 2016 22:06
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greypearl posted:Pearl is celebrating her 18th birthday today! She's unwrapped her presents and is taking advantage of the fact that we have the morning off of work. She'll probably steal some food from us later-- she pulled a waterlogged piece of leftover naan from the sink last week. What was her present? Its either a naan bread or a voters registration guide as far as I can tell. Both good gifts! 
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May 14, 2016 02:43
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I got reminded of something really sad today One day when I was a kid, we came home from school to a budgie that had got itself into Floyd's cage through the bars, and my brother was really excited because he thought it meant he could have a bird too like me. We took it to the vet because we thought it was a loose pet because we don't get them wild on the coast, turns out it had terminal cancer. I remember the vet telling me that its a common thing with Budgies and people just release them when their aviary birds get it. Poor dude got put down because he didn't have long left. He probably came looking for food or water. People loving suck. 
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May 14, 2016 07:31
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GoldStandardConure posted:What was her present? Really should have done only that. Jingly ball and toy with lots of cardboard on a kebab. I have video of her unwrapping the gifts, but then my husband started walking around in his underwear in the background, so... It needs some editing.
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May 14, 2016 09:19
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greypearl posted:Pearl is celebrating her 18th birthday today! She's unwrapped her presents and is taking advantage of the fact that we have the morning off of work. She'll probably steal some food from us later-- she pulled a waterlogged piece of leftover naan from the sink last week. sorry, um, i can see a claw, but i cannot see the bird? i know logically there must be a bird connected to the claw and the angle means the bird should be in shot, but i cannot see it
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May 14, 2016 09:51
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nevermind
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR_gt1W2o_s Eric will build a wall to keep the
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May 14, 2016 11:09
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Got a fresh coconut, got into said coconut, offer coconut to each bird. Ohtori-LOVES dried coconut, just licked the fresh one a bit and didn't want it, just looked at me whenever offered Inko-likes dried coconut, was confused by fresh coconut, showed him it was edible and after licking it also just abandoned it Steve-doesn't eat dried coconut, loving LOVES FRESH COCONUT HOLY poo poo GIMME THAT ARGLEBLARGLE
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Looks like the next month is going to be maximum feathers. Both derps have begun molting.
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