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Potato Salad posted:I want that poster It's actually a puzzle that I sealed on the back with packing tape. https://www.galison.com/collections/1000-piece-puzzles/products/avian-friends-puzzle
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Isn't it really dangerous to cage larger birds with smaller birds like that? I mean that cockatoo could kill that conure and in like a fraction of a second.
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Nov 5, 2017 19:35
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Yeah but it's not my picture so I can pretend everything works out fine, also the conure might just be visiting. My budgie would visit the cockatiel in his cage often and vice versa even though they had permanent homes in separate cages.
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Nov 5, 2017 19:53
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Eifert Posting posted:Isn't it really dangerous to cage larger birds with smaller birds like that?
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Kenshin posted:Nah, if you know the personality of both birds well and you've observed extended interactions between the two it can be fine. It certainly isn't something you'd do early on in the birds knowing each other, though. Yeah, birds will develop a little hierarchy that is pretty easy to predict. The problem is when the larger bird is terrified of the smaller bird.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I came home to a brand new parrot. Wish that my gf had had a conversation with me about it first, but he's a cute little booger. Bird update: Quackers likes me more, and if I'm around while my girlfriend is holding him, he'll try to get over to me. We had a vet meeting yesterday for some initial tests and consultation. Glad to know sooner rather than later how to avoid accidentally courting my bird.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Bird update: Quackers likes me more, and if I'm around while my girlfriend is holding him, he'll try to get over to me. It's bizarre but parrots will often prefer a gender in humans. Which means your girlfriend's parrot, Mr. Quackers, has chosen YOU! Congrats! Now never pet him below his neck (or her) and you'll be fine! (That's genuine mating behaviour and half the "bird people" I know do it accidentally)
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Captain Log posted:Now never pet him below his neck (or her) and you'll be fine! (That's genuine mating behaviour and half the "bird people" I know do it accidentally)
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Kenshin posted:Nah, if you know the personality of both birds well and you've observed extended interactions between the two it can be fine. It certainly isn't something you'd do early on in the birds knowing each other, though.
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Well Samba has learned a new phrase. When he snuggles under blankets or robe, his bird.exe does a dump of all available data, so he runs through all the sounds he can make. He has now started saying "stop that! stop that!" I'm not sure who it makes sound more abused, me or him.
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Kenshin posted:Nah, if you know the personality of both birds well and you've observed extended interactions between the two it can be fine. It certainly isn't something you'd do early on in the birds knowing each other, though. We we're hand raising budgies at one point and they made friends with our African grey because they we're able to go between the bars. Grey liked anything as long as you weren't cardboard and you would answer her demands of head scratches.
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Does the world really deserve cockatiels? 
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Tendai posted:Does the world really deserve cockatiels? They are so drat ridiculous I want every cockatiel, ever. Except Steve. He has a good home. 
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Tendai posted:Does the world really deserve cockatiels?
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Kenshin posted:Nah, if you know the personality of both birds well and you've observed extended interactions between the two it can be fine. It certainly isn't something you'd do early on in the birds knowing each other, though. i saw a story on facebook about a macaw that bit a sun conure on the head, and now the sun conure is blind (not from losing its eyes but from brain damage) and i think i am now too traumatized to ever put a big bird and a small bird together (but we only have one bird so that works out well for everyone involved)
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omg I got my zebra finch beepers into a new bigger cage, I've given them some stuff to play with and they seem to have a blast. Jumping around, swinging, tooting, etc. However, my hen seems to be on a mean streak, at times she bites her mate for some reason. Saw her pluck a feather from him yesterday :/ Also, noticed more loose small feathers around the cage lately, most of them seem to be his... They seem to get along most of the time, snuggling up together, preening each other and being p chill. Perhaps she wants to build a nest or something... or perhaps she's just a rude bird >:V e: just got back from work and she was chasing after him from perch to perch, with some of his feathers in her beak  think i need to separate them for a while, while i figure out whats going on...
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GoldStandardConure posted:i saw a story on facebook about a macaw that bit a sun conure on the head, and now the sun conure is blind (not from losing its eyes but from brain damage) and i think i am now too traumatized to ever put a big bird and a small bird together (but we only have one bird so that works out well for everyone involved)
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https://twitter.com/syana59114303/status/926713137688076288 https://twitter.com/syana59114303/status/927158224440107009
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Battle Pigeon posted:https://twitter.com/syana59114303/status/926713137688076288 Why does everything from Japan only do more to convince me the whole country is an elaborate cartoon?
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I don't know why, but Eclectuses always remind me of sweet old golden retrievers
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Electus are visually my favorite parrots, they just look like cartoons.
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A male eclectus is my realistic dream of a parrot to have someday. All the ones I've met have been just extremely chill for large parrots. And the iridescents of their plumage doesn't even come through well and pictures, I never realized that till I started meeting them face-to-face. They're really just amazingly colored. My unrealistic dream parrot is a hyacinth macaw of course. But barring a meteoric rise in my job or a very lucky lottery win, I can't Envision it happening.
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I honestly don't think I've ever heard one vocalise in person. Where do they land on the "OH GOD MY EARS?!" spectrum? - Today I was visiting with some hard to find cockatiels and the Birb Store. Mr. Pretty Bird, the Amazon that is apparently a feathered can opener, decided to get on my arm. Well, Mr. Pretty Bird didn't know the difference between my jacket and my wrist. Or that I'm on stupid blood thinners. Needless to say, an Amazon doing a "perch pinch" to my wrist was enough to draw blood. I didn't flinch, but I asked the bird, "Was that needed?" Pretty Bird responded by turning around and waving his butt at me. 
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^^  Gillian is being a noisy grumpy bird this evening because she doesn't respect daylight savings time, and thinks the cover should be on the cage already.
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Turns out Crouton and Galbedir are just like Taco and go nuts for kale.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Turns out Crouton and Galbedir are just like Taco and go nuts for kale. kale is garbage, wtf is wrong with birds?
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Eifert Posting posted:Isn't it really dangerous to cage larger birds with smaller birds like that? I think this pairing only works because cockatoos are naturally very cuddly and conures are velcro.
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While there are definitely species traits, every bird has its own personality and any responsible owner should be really familiar with them before housing them together especially if there is a size difference
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That's what I meant, these two particular birds are probably a perfect example of that stereotype.
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https://twitter.com/SuperRetroDuck/status/928050357959380995 I can’t wait to put hats on all the birds. I was so impatient to share this I’m doing it from the mobile browser
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I'm going to play the hell out of that game.
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So...at what point with birds does playing become fighting? I'm pretty sure the female is getting more aggressive. I'm starting to wonder if my "happy lights" have driven my pair of keets slightly insane?
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   Fiddle doesn’t understand headphones.  But he does understand enormous mutton chops.
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Birb update. This bird is really cute and likes me a lot, but it's sort of bumming my girlfriend out because he prefers me.. Any good ideas on how to make a bird like you more?
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Birb update. post pictures of the bird on the internet. it works, promise
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Birb update. Time and patience.
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