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A question that I'm not having much luck finding a answer Googling because I get a lot of irrelevant results - can I run my fireplace burning wood or smokeless fuel while my bird is in the room? Pretty much everything goes straight up the chimney but I didn't run it last winter just in case. My house is pretty small so unfortunately I don't have another room to put him in while the fire is burning but his cage is over the other side of the room about 10ft away.
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Caught a Wheezing floating by a coworker's butt. He's a goon, even.
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Jul 11, 2016 19:08
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Time to download this game just for pics of Pokemon next to birds
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Jul 11, 2016 19:09
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Any suggestions about pinfeathers on a conure's head? My little guy isn't too keen about me trying to rub them for him...I am making sure I'm trying mature ones that stick out past normal feathers of course.
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Jul 11, 2016 19:44
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Rub feathers, bit fingat, repeat.
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Jul 11, 2016 19:47
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Noxville posted:A question that I'm not having much luck finding a answer Googling because I get a lot of irrelevant results - can I run my fireplace burning wood or smokeless fuel while my bird is in the room? Pretty much everything goes straight up the chimney but I didn't run it last winter just in case. My house is pretty small so unfortunately I don't have another room to put him in while the fire is burning but his cage is over the other side of the room about 10ft away. If it's for decoration, I'd say no. If it's for heat, you can if you must, but bear in mind birds are much more sensitive to carbon monoxide and smoke than we are. If you need to heat your room/house I'd suggest you get an oil heater as they're pretty much 100% bird safe. Most folks tend to avoid ceramic heaters because they often contain teflon.
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Jul 11, 2016 19:59
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That photo reminded me to check my phone and VOILA welcome to bird central Pidgey.
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I'm headed to the UK tomorrow for a currently unknown length of time and I'm gonna miss the feathery assholes  Also a little worried since my partner might be headed elsewhere for a week at some point before I get back, so birds are going to get boarded again. We decided not to bother with the vet we used the last few times-maybe at Christmas if there's no other option we might consider it, but not now, after how things went Mr.Boofu posted:Any suggestions about pinfeathers on a conure's head? My little guy isn't too keen about me trying to rub them for him...I am making sure I'm trying mature ones that stick out past normal feathers of course. Get a concrete perch, place it vertically near a perch where he regularly hangs out, he'll rub his beak and hopefully head on it. Or get a branch with an offshoot and point that upwards so they'll rub on that. Also baths help!
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Jul 11, 2016 20:42
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Is this one of those shiny pidgeys
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Mr.Boofu posted:Any suggestions about pinfeathers on a conure's head? My little guy isn't too keen about me trying to rub them for him...I am making sure I'm trying mature ones that stick out past normal feathers of course. Ama doesn't like it if I pinch or rub his pins. He likes/doesn't mind it if I press a fingernail against it and drag my finger though (I can't think of a better way to describe it, sorry). The casing breaks and I can keep stroking with my nail until all the little bits fall away.
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Jul 11, 2016 22:14
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Guys. Guys. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-strap-fake-dinosaur-tail-on-chickens-to-discover-how-t-rex-walked-video-9117384.html Holy poo poo 
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Jul 11, 2016 23:41
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Some zoo birbs         
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Jul 12, 2016 00:06
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I see even wild Greys are massive assholes.
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Jul 12, 2016 00:10
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I love the line of conures
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Jul 12, 2016 01:39
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Oh hey Mookie, whatcha got there? Gingersnaps are the new favorite snack, looks like.
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I went to visit the pet shop after work again to look at cute birds. Two of the cockatiels are gone, leaving only the most raggedy grey one (who is understandably looking even more mopey). They've got a bunch more budgies in though. I can still recognise some of the old ones (blue face and white face who love preening each other, two identical blue guys who hate each other, TINIEST BABBU, slightly larger babbu who is terrified/entranced by my phone, little red-eye budge, etc. They are all very talkative and playing with each other and their stuff, but they still make me sad because too many of them have crusty snouts/overgrown toenails/etc and there's too many of them really for an enclosure that size. I mean it's nowhere near "call the RSPCA and shut this poo poo down", just regular common/garden petshop budge conditions. But they should have a nicer home dammit 
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Jul 12, 2016 06:34
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Old man likes gingersnaps, not surprising
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Jul 12, 2016 06:34
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I love cockies. Their eyes are cold black voids from which nothing can escape and they emote with their dinosaur hairdo.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:I love cockies. Their eyes are cold black voids from which nothing can escape and they emote with their dinosaur hairdo. And they look like they are made out of marshmallows and clouds 
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E: ^^^^ Oh my god I like having a 'too, it's kind of like having a super-sized potato bird. The freaky pneumatic mohawk is useful for judging relative insanity levels, since the cold, dark voids give away nothing. Mookie has decided that he really likes snuggling, but currently refuses to be held. We're nothing if not problem solvers, though. I'll see if I can get a picture soonish, but it's tough to do when I've got half my torso in his cage. Suntan Boy fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Jul 12, 2016 |
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Shirec posted:And they look like they are made out of marshmallows and clouds  Now with soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6UGjqIvPMY
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Jul 12, 2016 22:26
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Cockatoos are actually super emotive, aside from the battle banner on their head. Eye shape, feather puffiness in the mustache/cheek/right along the cere/neck, posture and movement, head angle, and voice give them a really big range of expression. I'm sure other parrot species have their own way of communicating, but Teeka can express quite a wide range of things. It's why I get bit probably like once every other year, because he can tell me when he doesn't like something and after years of learning how he says things, it's really quite obvious. I dunno, I find it very rewarding.
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Borb update: Raddy wants to be with mango very desperately. Mango has started to sing. and in the flight Blue the budgie is sitting on five eggs and we have worked out what's going wrong with the cocktails, it's the male not the females so tricks are being played on the elderly male so he thinks it's his eggs while young male goes in the naughty shed. Red rumps are now clearly T's favourites and he's trying to hand tame them, it is not going well, but he seems happy to be repeatedly bitten.
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Noxville posted:A question that I'm not having much luck finding a answer Googling because I get a lot of irrelevant results - can I run my fireplace burning wood or smokeless fuel while my bird is in the room? Pretty much everything goes straight up the chimney but I didn't run it last winter just in case. My house is pretty small so unfortunately I don't have another room to put him in while the fire is burning but his cage is over the other side of the room about 10ft away. I have no idea what smokeless fuel is, but my bird was okay in a home with a wood stove for a few months (we didn't have anywhere else to go). I'm more worried about the theoretical additives that are maybe in smokeless fuel? I'd find a permanent solution that doesn't involve burning things, but in the short run I wouldn't freeze myself to death over it.
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Eejit posted:Cockatoos are actually super emotive, aside from the battle banner on their head. Eye shape, feather puffiness in the mustache/cheek/right along the cere/neck, posture and movement, head angle, and voice give them a really big range of expression. I'm sure other parrot species have their own way of communicating, but Teeka can express quite a wide range of things. I know greys are the go-to parrot when discussing bird smarts but cockatoos have always struck me as an embodiment of avian, alien intelligence. They have this way of moving their eyes when they're studying something that gives me these intense vibes of an animal far smarter than it should be that's carefully measuring and considering the things/events around it. It's hard to explain but you probably get what I mean.
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Cockatoos study and learn things so they just have fun 24/7. Greys study and learn so they figure out how to murder you in your sleep.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I know greys are the go-to parrot when discussing bird smarts but cockatoos have always struck me as an embodiment of avian, alien intelligence. They have this way of moving their eyes when they're studying something that gives me these intense vibes of an animal far smarter than it should be that's carefully measuring and considering the things/events around it. It's hard to explain but you probably get what I mean. I love your new av!! Smart birds are so fascinating to be around, watching them figure things out and anticipate you Kiwi and Sammy posts ahoy-hoy   
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Jose Oquendo posted:Cockatoos study and learn things so they just have fun 24/7. About that... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ37X1hjXiw 
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Eejit posted:Cockatoos are actually super emotive, aside from the battle banner on their head. Eye shape, feather puffiness in the mustache/cheek/right along the cere/neck, posture and movement, head angle, and voice give them a really big range of expression. I'm sure other parrot species have their own way of communicating, but Teeka can express quite a wide range of things. Well yeah, you're absolutely right on all counts. I enjoy poking fun at my psychotic mohawked marshmallow, though. Tendai posted:
I clocked out at 48 seconds. Deafness is the only way I can imagine getting through all three minutes. Mookie apparently shares my intolerance of juvenile whining, judging by the poofed hiss I got.
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All the wild birds in Australia do that. Baby magpies are the worst. I'm fairly sure thats why they swoop, cause they got harassed by people as babies for being so dang irritating.
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Baby cockatoos are so annoying I once saw a parent cockatoo fly to another branch of the same tree, just so the baby wouldn't be able to pester it.
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Baby rainbow lorikeets sound like a rusty gate.
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yeah the noise baby magpies make isn't the worst, but if their parents are friendly they come right up to you i had one come sit next to my head while i was under a car, supporting a diff with my chest, trying to get the driveshafts to line up, and demand food. no go away
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Fresh from the 90s... BIRDS WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMOrxPxULMQ
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the dumb little blink always gets me Shirec posted:I love your new av!! Thanks!  I'll probably go back to smug Ama eventually but I wanted a change. also your birds are so cute ugghh
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Jul 13, 2016 15:38
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In the UK at the moment and apparently birds have been relocated to another room, so now Ohtori is on one side and Steve and Inko are on the other, next to each other. Wonder how they're going to take that-part of the shared side is covered on Steve's cage as a chill out spot but they can still see each other. They also now are against a shared wall so hopefully they won't be too loud or the neighbours won't care too much LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Thanks! It's really good, to the point where I want a giant Ohtori avatar (though I still love my current one and text, thank you again random goon)
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So is this a thread where I can ask what to do about a juvenile kind of bird I found today in my parking lot? It was kind of huddled near my front tyre so I went to shoo it away, thinking it would fly off, but it just pooped itself and hobbled away that little hoppy way birds do, but not very speedily. I had to get to a meeting so off I went since I figured I wouldn't run it over and as I left it was just sitting there kind of looking at the sun. I got to thinking if it can't fly and it's out of a nest, it can't really get food for itself and get the strength to fly can it? I've always heard that line about how you ought not to touch birds lest their mom forgets them but I think I also heard that was bullshit. Im thinking I should go back and if it's still there, buy it a cage and maybe feed it until it's strong enough to fly on its own, but is that a stupid idea?
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pathetic little tramp posted:So is this a thread where I can ask what to do about a juvenile kind of bird I found today in my parking lot? It was kind of huddled near my front tyre so I went to shoo it away, thinking it would fly off, but it just pooped itself and hobbled away that little hoppy way birds do, but not very speedily. I had to get to a meeting so off I went since I figured I wouldn't run it over and as I left it was just sitting there kind of looking at the sun. I got to thinking if it can't fly and it's out of a nest, it can't really get food for itself and get the strength to fly can it? I've always heard that line about how you ought not to touch birds lest their mom forgets them but I think I also heard that was bullshit. Im thinking I should go back and if it's still there, buy it a cage and maybe feed it until it's strong enough to fly on its own, but is that a stupid idea? I wouldn't bother it. Unless it's just a ball of fluff (in which case there's nothing you can do), it's a fledgling, and likely has parents in the area that come by to feed it.
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