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So Moka the Quaker: almost three months now since I adopted him and he is about the opposite of what I’ve known of Quakers: he’s super tame, never bites (except a tiny peck once when he was in a weird mood exploring my bedroom not wanting to be bothered), doesn’t really screech, is not cage aggressive at all. It’s a delight to spend time with him. Oh and he’s a huge glutton. There’s just one thing I’ve noticed: he... uh... doesn’t fly. The one time he did it was because I had left him one minute too long in another room and decided to panick fly like Dumbo in the most clumsy way possible on my shoulder. It was adorable. 
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Hey guys, you know what we haven't had in a while? A bird shop safari. First up is Mango, who poofs upon even the suspicion of scritches.  Officially unnamed, Snowy is the chillest ringneck I've ever met, until the camera comes out. Then she's the spazziest.  Mystery is a recent addition to the shop. She's sweet and curious, and was found in a parking lot. All attempts to find her original owner failed, so now she's looking for new ones.   Mutzili? Mituzi? Muziti? Something like that. Her cage had to be padlocked, because she's figured out everything else. I love her little squeaky croaky voice.   My main girl, Lovey. Super sweet, a little shy, was used for breeding before coming here. Not actually for sale at the moment, but the shop owner wants to socialize her a bunch before making a final decision. She makes laser gun noises for scritches. 
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Feb 3, 2018 20:38
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Feb 3, 2018 21:36
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Suntan Boy posted:
So many pins. I want to scritch.
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Feb 3, 2018 22:17
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You win this thread.
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Tuesday was Nugget's bird-day. She's been adventuring with our party 10 years, across 5 states, multiple moves and jobs, and basically our entire adult lives. She is the best forever and I hope she lives a freakishly long and happy life with us  
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Let's play "spot the parrot."
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Feb 4, 2018 06:53
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Jose Oquendo posted:Let's play "spot the parrot." If you pretend he's squished right up against the door frame he becomes the world's tiniest grey.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Let's play "spot the parrot." It actually made me jump when I spotted him.
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quote="nielsm" post="480941719"] So many pins. I want to scritch. [/quote] I wanted to so bad. But, you know, padlock. Jose Oquendo posted:Let's play "spot the parrot." That took an embarrassing account of time. In my defense, I almost exclusively browse the forums from the app anymore.
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Finally home tomorrow (though super late) after about a month and a half, looking forward to facing the wrath of three tiny furious little parrots I wonder how Inko will react mostly, after a month of flying wildly after my partner, will he come to me too? Will we be able to pick up where we left off, where he was stepping up on to my bare wrist? Or will he have regressed and hold a grudge? Ohtori usually bites me for a while while demanding scritches, and Steve is usually super happy up in my face singing and whistling to me for 5-10 minutes before business as usual. Inko I don't know really though, especially since we were making progress before Christmas and he seemed to be getting closer to us (I've also got a new piercing so wondering if they're going to go for that or not) Pip pip pip posted:Tuesday was Nugget's bird-day. Happy birdday little Nugget!!
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Disconcerting discovery recently. Preface, we lost our tag due to eye surgery but she was in really bad shape from it. Now the wife notices something odd about little girls/Gingers (the female of the two disabled tags we have) right eye. There appears to be a largish dark grey object protruding through her iris. She otherwise uses the eye pretty well, appears to be in no discomfort (she's not messing with it etc.), and she's probably had this for a while now (it's hard to notice unless you look in her eye at the right angles in the sun). Just concerned. I'll probably bring it up at the vet to get their take.
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hmm, been experimenting with letting my finches out of their cage to stretch their wings a bit. Works out for a while, then they freak out and forget how to get back in the cage. Flying in circles in the living room, stopping in random potted plants while tooting to each other. Got them to jump onto my finger several times, but they flew off again whenever I got close to the cage.Took me two hours to get them back in today haha... At least they got some exercise I guess... 
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Feb 5, 2018 22:13
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Nice. Food lures might work.
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No touch! Only scritch!
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Crouton shoved Galbedir off the cupboard  He immediately started squeaking pitifully and dashed back up to feed her while she grumped and grumbled. What a terrible girlfriend.
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Just taking a little dump. You can see Putni's beautiful iris color here     Edit: Also here's Putni grabbing onto a cob of millet, Pion doesn't know to do that. 
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Feb 6, 2018 16:01
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DID YOU GUYS loving SEE THAT???
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At my local petshop there's this blue ringneck parrot (I think). He's been there for more than a year and he looks like poo poo :/ He's never looked particularly healthy or happy, but lately he's been looking really, really sad. He's constantly puffed up and shivering, he's got some sort of crust around his nostrils and his colors seem to be fading. He's supposed to be blue, but currently he looks grey. I've never heard him make a sound and he seems scared when people get close to his aviary cage. Finally asked the people working there what the deal was. I've been thinking he might be an old bird a previous owner had dropped off or something, but apparently he's a young bird. They've recently taken him to the vet, but apart from cleaning up his beak a bit the vet couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. They also got another ringneck to keep him company (he's been alone in there for like a year or something ://). That apparently helped a little, but I can't really say that I've seen a difference. The other parrot looks way better, but his feathers are also a bit ruffled. I don't know a whole lot about parrots, but to me it looks like he's super stressed out and depressed. I've never seen anyone try to talk to him or socialize with him - apart from the occasional screaming toddlers that stroll past the bird section of the store from time to time... It pains (and infuriates) me to see him every time I visit the store. Lately I've begun toying with the idea of buying and rescuing him. I loving bet I could make his life a lot better, with better food, better care and a more relaxing atmosphere... I honestly don't think I have the room for a bigass aviary, or the time, or the knowhow and so on and so on... but jeez I want to do something for him. Bad phone photo: 
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If that is a he, he is very young, he doesn't have his ring yet that's really sad 
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underage at the vape shop posted:If that is a he, he is very young, he doesn't have his ring yet Could be a she tbh, I don't know the gender. Probably a tad older than a year old if i understood the shop dude right.
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That is a colour they come in, so s/he could really be that colour rather than blue. Regarding vet being stumped, it's unlikely they took it to an avian or exotics vet with bird experience (though you could ask). Purely randomly guessing, but if the other bird isn't sick, they're not plucking, and they've got that big cage with toys to play with, then maybe it's diet related. Especially if it's only being fed a seed mix with the odd one or two fresh foods sometimes like a lot of stores tend to. I think vitamin A deficiency would affect beak etc like that, though can't double check right now.
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Battle Pigeon posted:That is a colour they come in, so s/he could really be that colour rather than blue. The other bird was introduced in the aviary just a few weeks back. They don't seem to interact much though, the dude in the shop was unsure if they got along...
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The cutest predator
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motgerfucker is NOT doing that with fingats, that's a severe no no for birds of prey
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I’m a blue eyed ginger, what was the question?
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Captain Log posted:I’m a blue eyed ginger, what was the question? how do you not explode on contact with sunlight?
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Just saw an article in Scientific American about the illegal exotic pet trade and man...seeing images of cockatoos stuffed into literal 2-liter bottles and budgies smushed into strawberry packages 7 at a time...not a good way to start the day. Give your birdies some love tonight, guys.
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Greys have this slight ungainliness to them sometimes in my mind, like they're both smart and awkward (so basically more human than we know). Also, https://i.imgur.com/eZXShU0.gifv
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