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Regular old incense and scented candles are still bad for birds, right?
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Jan 19, 2016 04:57
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Here's a really easy rule of thumb: If it's burning, don't put it near a bird
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Jan 19, 2016 05:00
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Eejit posted:Here's a really easy rule of thumb:  MOLOTOV COCKATIEL. I need another bird to give him that name, immediately.
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Jan 19, 2016 05:28
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The initial terror phase seems to have come to an end:      We haven't settled on a name yet. Cage is admittedly small, but not permanent.
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Jan 19, 2016 06:25
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what are blood feathers
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Jan 19, 2016 07:56
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Agent355 posted:Shamelessly stolen from imgur So it has come to this, bird porn.
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Jan 19, 2016 08:39
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Dreggon posted:what are blood feathers Judah has only done that once and the amount of blood sprayed around his cage even by the time I got to him was kind of cockatiel-horror-movie looking.
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Jan 19, 2016 09:28
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Dreggon posted:what are blood feathers Also known as pin feathers. The hollow shaft of new feathers are filled with blood and as birds have very little blood (a budgie has less than a teaspoon of blood) breaking them means they need treatment. I am staggered birds have survived as a species tbh.
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Jan 19, 2016 09:30
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Tendai posted:. If a bird, say, flails around at night in a panic (I'm looking at you, cockatiels especially) I have a flapper. Thor likes nothing more than to stand there beating his wings over and over at 3am. Bottom 1/3 of the cage is clear of anything now so he can stand on it's floor flapping away to his heats content, or at least until I turn the light on and he freezes, wings outstretched looking at me like "what?"
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Jan 19, 2016 09:37
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learnincurve posted:(a budgie has less than a teaspoon of blood) what the gently caress
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Jan 19, 2016 11:56
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Dreggon, this is why birds are trying to drink your blood.
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Jan 19, 2016 12:34
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learnincurve posted:It's about dogs but still one of the most accurate comics about moving with animals I have ever seen. http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html Reasons why I don't have a dog.
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Jan 19, 2016 15:15
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Dreggon posted:what the gently caress
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Jan 19, 2016 17:23
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Tendai posted:birds are basically a crisis waiting to happen on every possible level I showed Alexis one of my socks this morning and she crawled all the way inside and either wouldn't or couldn't get out so I had to carefully unwrap the sock around her. derrrrrp
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Jan 19, 2016 17:42
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Kenshin posted:I showed Alexis one of my socks this morning and she crawled all the way inside and either wouldn't or couldn't get out so I had to carefully unwrap the sock around her. Ritz isn't allowed to be around during laundry-putting-away time because he tries to burrow into the socks and undies.
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Jan 19, 2016 18:14
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Mirthless posted:The initial terror phase seems to have come to an end: Yaaay!! More budgies for the thread! Look at that cute little bean.
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Jan 19, 2016 18:22
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Agent355 posted:Shamelessly stolen from imgur  Tendai posted:Cockatiel all throwin tiny molotov cocktails This made me laugh!! I have also been informed that we need to get a cockatiel, (as well as a couple of conures etc). When we do eventually, this shall be that name that the future cockatiel will be given. Because apparently, according to my husband, that is the most awesome and hilariously brilliant name for a cockatiel EVER and he must steal it shamelessly I told him fine but we would shorten it it Molly :P He was not so impressed with that but we have to compromise somehow. Besides it would be great fun to tell people what its short for and see how long it takes them to get it
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Jan 19, 2016 22:07
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It's me I was the idiot in the airport with a jingling backpack (because hand luggage has no weight limit and bird toys are heavy) I'll be home in about two hours, and it's late at night now. They're gonna hear me and be really angry/confused. Do I get Ohtori out to say hi? Tendai posted:Cockatiel all throwin tiny molotov cocktails I have noted this down in my sketchbook for future idea reference
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Jan 19, 2016 22:13
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So, should regurgitate mush smell sour? Like, super powerful, I immediately smell it from two feet away, sour? Because Maestro loves regurgitating on things, especially my hand, and it stinks so bad. None of the other birds really regurgitate on things (and he is regurgitating and not vomiting, I know because Simon gets car sick). I'm just wondering if this is normal or not.
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Jan 19, 2016 23:59
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Tendai posted:MOLOTOV COCKATIEL. Battle Pigeon posted:It's me I was the idiot in the airport with a jingling backpack (because hand luggage has no weight limit and bird toys are heavy) schnickety scribe posted:So, should regurgitate mush smell sour? Like, super powerful, I immediately smell it from two feet away, sour? Because Maestro loves regurgitating on things, especially my hand, and it stinks so bad. None of the other birds really regurgitate on things (and he is regurgitating and not vomiting, I know because Simon gets car sick). I'm just wondering if this is normal or not.
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Jan 20, 2016 01:49
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I had no idea that birds ate weed in the wild. Even the smart ones are already dopey enough, how do they even survive? Either way though, smoking drugs around animals is pretty 
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Jan 20, 2016 02:07
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Status update on the new budgie: Oh! Hello.   High Res Boodge:  Current name contenders are Muffin and Bagel, in keeping with our breakfast themed pet names. I have also considered yogurt? But I think my wife is vetoing that one. He has a very good temperament so far, he was petrified the first day we had him but he's been climbing around in his cage and checking things out, so he seems to be settling in quite well. He does not seem to be fearful of hands or new things, so I think I should be able to hand tame him eventually. We are keeping the birds apart from each other for now, but they are still in the same room, just on opposite sides. Is that okay for quarantine purposes? If so, how close to each other can they get? I don't plan on letting Skillet climb on the budgie's cage or anything but it'd be nice if they could talk to each other when Skillet is on the play gym in front of the budgie's cage. Mirthless fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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Jan 20, 2016 03:02
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Mirthless posted:
have you considered "omelette?"
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Jan 20, 2016 03:05
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Tendai posted:MOLOTOV COCKATIEL. this is a really good name
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Jan 20, 2016 03:05
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Mirthless posted:Status update on the new budgie: Snowpeak Finger-Slayer, Destroyer of Lives, The Shrill Death of Men.
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Jan 20, 2016 03:07
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:I had no idea that birds ate weed in the wild. Even the smart ones are already dopey enough, how do they even survive? They mostly survive by making as many more birds as possible. It's like infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters only instead of Shakespeare it's a cockatiel not chomping on a power cable like a mynock. Edit: To be fair to the little derping twerps it's not like sock ingress/egress procedure is a particularly useful skill to a foraging prey animal Shark Sandwich fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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Jan 20, 2016 03:08
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Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:They mostly survive by making as many more birds as possible. It's like infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters only instead of Shakespeare it's a cockatiel not chomping on a power cable like a mynock. I wonder how close African greys are to being smart enough to not die all the time and what would happen if they got there i wonder if thats how humans became so dominant, we got smart enough to not constantly die to dumb poo poo and suddenly we are everywhere. Bobby has decided that "girl" means "bird" and "boy" means me. He says good girl to himself and good boy when I do something he likes. I think he figured it out from when I say good girl to the untame ringneck when shes scared.
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Jan 20, 2016 03:42
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:I wonder how close African greys are to being smart enough to not die all the time and what would happen if they got there I genuinely believe that if birds have another 10 or 20 million years you'll start seeing primitive bird civilizations start to develop. We might have beaten them to the punch but birds are all terribly smart and the only other animal family besides primates to have even begun to figure out tool use beyond isolated examples.
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Jan 20, 2016 03:48
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Don't greys already establish colonies? I know Quakers live in the equivalent of bird highrises. E: I googled African greys and apparently they are a vulnerable species  They sound like cavemen though, live for around 23 years in the wild and are as smart as 6 year olds.  Quakers already do that (3 nests there), apparently Greys live like cockatoos with holes in trees for nests and roosting in large groups. underage at the vape shop fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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Jan 20, 2016 03:51
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https://featheredangels.wordpress.com/parrot-behavior-and-issues/understanding-your-parrot/bird-bites-they-can-and-do-happen/ oh cool, an article about how birds bite, what to look out for, etc.. nothing out of the ordinary, right? then I saw the gallery of bite wounds at the bottom
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Jan 20, 2016 04:03
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:I wonder how close African greys are to being smart enough to not die all the time and what would happen if they got there. My grey was determined to open a candy jar in the living room. He spent a good 15 minutes on it before giving up. He knows HOW to open it, but he physically can't get enough leverage to pop the lid off. I'm sure if him with it for a day he'd figure it out.
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Jan 20, 2016 04:21
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Tea.EarlGrey.Hot. posted:https://featheredangels.wordpress.com/parrot-behavior-and-issues/understanding-your-parrot/bird-bites-they-can-and-do-happen/ Yeah, even Toast the tiny lovebird can draw blood (well, a little bit of blood) if he bites hard enough just from common or garden "How dare you try to pick me up! I was having fun gnawing the cable!  " chomps. Something as big as a macaw getting proper angry or frightened is well beyond what I think I could handle  The "RIP Dreggon's fingats" is not really hyperbole, I have heard of cockies taking at least fingernails off before.
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Jan 20, 2016 04:22
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I've told the story in here before, but I'll mention it. When I was a kid, we took in a scarlet macaw that belonged to the brother of a friend of the family. He was a bachelor who took care of the bird, but not the best care. For reasons I'm not sure of, the bird HATED women. I'm not sure how it could tell the difference between a man or woman, but it knew. One day, the guy brought a date to his place, and the woman immediately stuck her finger in the cage. The macaw promptly broke her finger with his beak. That was the final straw, and we ended up with it. So yeah, those big birds are not to be hosed with.
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Jan 20, 2016 04:27
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Birds can be alarmingly sexist. Until we started living with my boyfriend Ama haaaated men and flipped out whenever my landlord or electrician or whomever was in the apartment.
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Jan 20, 2016 04:32
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Birds can be alarmingly sexist. Until we started living with my boyfriend Ama haaaated men and flipped out whenever my landlord or electrician or whomever was in the apartment.  EDIT: A hard day at the ol' factory 
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Jan 20, 2016 04:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMBFhaxUIew Beaks designed to CRUSH NUTS I've seen these fuckers in the wild before, though they're mostly too far north to see around the places I grew up.
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Jan 20, 2016 04:42
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best friends    source obviously birdwithacharacter, I totally recommend following her on Facebook for her adorable birds and the super dorky but somehow also adorable macros she makes of them.
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Jan 20, 2016 04:50
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMBFhaxUIew When Everyday Goast and I went to the Melbourne Zoo a few years back, we were looking at the macaws in the huge aviary they have there. One of them clearly wanted to impress the humans staring at it, so it picked up a walnut, climbed down the side of the bars and stared us right in the eye as it just shattered the nut with its beak, didn't bother eating any of it, and then just wandered back up to its perch. Macaws are loving scary (but I still want to own a million of them).
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GoldStandardConure posted:When Everyday Goast and I went to the Melbourne Zoo a few years back, we were looking at the macaws in the huge aviary they have there. One of them clearly wanted to impress the humans staring at it, so it picked up a walnut, climbed down the side of the bars and stared us right in the eye as it just shattered the nut with its beak, didn't bother eating any of it, and then just wandered back up to its perch. That was actually a threat. "Tell me I'm a pretty bird or... *gestures to beak* me *gestures to walnut* your skull *CRUNCH*"
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Jan 20, 2016 05:26
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