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Captain Log posted:With parakeets, I feel like a docile female is a sick female. All the little ladies I've had have been parakeet rage personified. My father and my current female parakeet seem locked in this staring war most days where my father says, "That bird lives to hate things." Our first budgie was female, she was a hoot. Yeah she went into rage mode pretty often but she was also super friendly and personable. She learned to open her cage by dive bombing the door from a perch up above. She would do this to come hang out on our shoulders. Anyway, my Buddy has been really grouchy with me. I think it’s a triple whammy of spring hormones, his recent wing clip and moulting. He bites me if I reach into his cage and doesn’t come out on his own. He still steps up but not without pecking me first. I have him on a stand next to me and he’s fine. He’s got his white noise going and his favorite bell as well. 
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Last night, Serra came out during an episode of something or another. My father and I, like old grumps, have two recliners in our living room. Serra will bounce back and fourth between us having a blast. So far, she seems to prefer my dad. He brings he lots of treats and due to his retirement, he is always sitting next to het cage in the living room. But Serra seems to understand I'm better at scritches. Last night, she was on Pop and it was time to go back to the cage. She went into cockatiel rage mode at my dad's finger. No real bites, but acting like she would die if she got picked up. I walker shuffled over, stuck out my finger, firmly said, "Step up" and she did without any fuss. The bird knows my dad is a pushover that is slightly scared of her. She is learning! 
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I think this moult's nearly over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37JRKa_NGnI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ozmRRVd8RU&t=2s  SPHEREBORB 
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iRend posted:SPHEREBORB RAGEBOORB!
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iRend posted:SPHEREBORB A candidate for https://twitter.com/round_boys if I ever saw one.
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Potato Salad posted:Must....preen....pins.... I've subscribed to the Mr. Max YouTube and two days ago he got a shower during this moulting season. https://youtu.be/aZmlW6givkI I am posting this here mainly for when the owner starts going after the pins while Max dries off. Pin feathers the size of chopsticks! Then he gets really close and it becomes a GoPro video of a professional feather pillow atopsy (cockatoos are drat fluffy) Remember, always CRUSH, never pull pin feathers. You can do some harm if the pin is not entirely ready to go and make the bird hate you .
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EVIL Gibson posted:I've subscribed to the Mr. Max YouTube and two days ago he got a shower during this moulting season. I got to hang out with Teeka, my parents' cockatoo, this weekend and lemme tell ya, preening his big ol crest feathers is better than bubble wrap. Also he makes a really happy face and then smears dust all over your clothing, what a bonus!
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I just want to come in here to say my juvenile cockatiel's feathers under her beak are the softest soft of anything to ever be soft, and yes I will fight over this claim. 
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I have really only been super close with dusty Australian parrots, I realize that I have no idea what it's like to pet a non-dusty parrot, they've just sat on me.
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PYF strikes again in Taco's memory. https://i.imgur.com/OBSSitV.mp4
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Cythereal posted:PYF strikes again in Taco's memory. How have I never seen that?! That's amazing. We miss Taco.
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Cythereal posted:PYF strikes again in Taco's memory.
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Potato Salad posted:Attempting to receive regurgitation? He's going, "TREATS! TREATS! TREATS! TREATS!"
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Sekkira posted:Wait, is that actually Taco? Nah that's not Taco. Taco wasn't keen on orange or red things, she would attack a cup like that.
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I had heard vaguely of this magazine and was sad I never got a chance to read it since it was gone before I had birds. But now it’s back! I’m totally going to pick up the June/July issue https://twitter.com/birdtalkmag/status/998659855450750977
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I want to buy it just to compare notes on their reasons  I have a whole collection of old Bird Talks a (former?) thread regular gave away years ago.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I want to buy it just to compare notes on their reasons How was it??? I was totally sold by both the adorable cockatoo and the green cheek conure shout out.
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Oh man I loved the old Bird Talk. I might subscribe despite not having a bird right now
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Hello human please let me out I have important conure business to attend to
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Yay Bird Talk! I used to have a subscription and then when it was discontinued the company managing my subscription decided I would want Cat Fancy instead of just ending my subscription  To me it seemed like a really weird choice. Cats eat birds! I don't like cats! If they had switched me to Wild bird magazine I might have kept it...
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https://twitter.com/xeropls/status/999043774876614657 It's even better with sound
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Hey PA bird goons https://twitter.com/JoannaBergerMSc/status/999054142952927232 https://twitter.com/National_Aviary/status/999053571076317184 I totally want to find a parrot place to volunteer at, dang. All the ones I know of are based in CA
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redgubbinz posted:https://twitter.com/xeropls/status/999043774876614657 Oh my God it is!
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Double posting because I got a cockatiel creepin'!
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Captain Log posted:Double posting because I got a cockatiel creepin'! Gosh she is just so pretty and such a baby birb. A little snowy baby 
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Shirec posted:Gosh she is just so pretty and such a baby birb. A little snowy baby And. so. SOFT!
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Shirec posted:How was it??? I was totally sold by both the adorable cockatoo and the green cheek conure shout out. I'm budgeting pretty hard atm since I just moved across the country but I will let you know when I find out! 
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I'm budgeting pretty hard atm since I just moved across the country but I will let you know when I find out! Congrats! I did it last year and I'm way happier. I hope the same goes for you and your flock!
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So here's a couple of things. It's just a budgie chilling mostly but heck he's round. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0XCZUSQ0ng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuino-HwGjs
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Haven't taken proper video in a long while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iG387kv7Bs
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nielsm posted:Haven't taken proper video in a long while. You just made Serra, the juvenile female cockatiel, nearly have a spaz stroke. 
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Grumpy molty birbs become happy wet borbs.  
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nielsm posted:Haven't taken proper video in a long while.
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Tendai posted:There's something just so intrinsically delightful about cockatiels. There is no parrot like them for making me just smile at their normal behavior. I think personally it's because I always imagine them saying "hi im a cockatiel" whenever they chirp. They have that, "im just happy to be here" look on their faces.
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