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I don't have any birds but I like watching Bird Content online, and I swear these might be the most  birbs I've seen.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSbDYMvs6w8 What kind are they? The eyes make me suspect some flavor of conure.
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Sep 7, 2018 11:58
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they look like golden conures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7NKJzrmGC8
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Sep 7, 2018 12:23
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underage at the vape shop posted:a long time ago i posted really guiltily about shimi, my ringneck that ive had since i was a kid, who was pretty wild. shed attack me through the cage without a second thought and freak right the gently caress out whenever I put my hand in there to hang a toy or something. I've been trying to get her to be more calm and shes let me scratch her through the cage for quite a while now. The other day I tricked her into standing on my hand, which she didn't get scared of for a a few seconds after I stopped scratching. I actually saw it click in her mind, she looked at my hand and was like, "I'm standing on his hand. Oh HOLY gently caress IM ON HIS HAND". Today, she ran enthusiastically from 1 side of the cage to the other when I called her for scratches, and i stuck my hand in the door and she let me scratch her with only a little hesitation. I was convinced I couldn't give her a good life, I was going to give her to a breeder or an aviary owner or something. I'm really glad I didn't. Congrats on the new birb-friend. May you have many scritches together.
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Sep 7, 2018 13:43
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I wish lowering a bowl onto my head made me so happy
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Sep 7, 2018 14:39
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Or shoving my head in a bell and yelling
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Sep 7, 2018 14:45
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Tendai posted:Or shoving my head in a bell and yelling Try it sometime, it's surprisingly therapeutic 
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Sep 7, 2018 14:53
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Tsaedje posted:I wish lowering a bowl onto my head made me so happy How will you know if you never try it? 
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Sep 7, 2018 14:57
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Feather floof Fridays?
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Sep 7, 2018 16:16
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I can smell the cockatiel dust from the incoming post-preening floofshake
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Sep 7, 2018 16:21
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Raised By Birds posted:What kind are they? The eyes make me suspect some flavor of conure. Queen of Bavaria aka Guaruba guarouba aka golden conure. Very expensive, rare as pet birds. My wife's great white buffalo bird.
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Sep 7, 2018 18:23
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GoldStandardConure posted:they look like golden conures they are so happy!!! I am saving this for when I have my really down days, if that can't make me smile at least a little, I don't know what would.
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Sep 7, 2018 23:47
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Tendai posted:Or shoving my head in a bell and yelling It does help, however... I am no longer welcome in the city of Philadelphia.
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Sep 8, 2018 01:48
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I'm always so happy to be able to come in here, see a bird being cute, read a good story. In the interest of giving back, Dr. Kepler figured out how to scratch himself. It's the cutest thing I've ever seen. 
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Sep 8, 2018 22:34
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My bird demands kisses whenever I speak to him. My bird also learnt how to feign wanting kisses when he's feeling cheeky and wants to give me a chomp. He's been saying "Baaaaby biiiird" more often. He doesn't sound like an olde timey radio like I find budgies normally do, it still sounds like it's composed of birdy sounds but it's clearly "Baaaaby Biiiird". He said it like every 10 minutes when I had a pal over!
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Sep 8, 2018 22:55
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Serra, being my third cockatiel, is the first to learn to POOP ON COMMAND! I just say in a really high pitched voice, "Wanna poop?" and bend my knees. She caught on in about a week.
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Sep 8, 2018 23:50
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Key word should have been donald.
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Sep 9, 2018 02:16
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https://i.imgur.com/VneR6bf.mp4
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Sep 9, 2018 02:36
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The most cockatiel of conures, apparently 
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Sep 9, 2018 04:01
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I thought golden conures and Nanday conures were closely related but dang, mine def does not have a tongue like that. I was looking at this on mobile and all the little chirps and squeaks and singing
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Sep 9, 2018 04:33
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Shirec posted:I thought golden conures and Nanday conures were closely related but dang, mine def does not have a tongue like that. I was looking at this on mobile and all the little chirps and squeaks and singing The weirdest tongue I've seen on a bird is from the lorikeet family. The got fuzzy tips!  The drink only nectar which means evolution deemed it worthy to grow brushes to lap up the sweet stuff as fast as possible. Also an all liquid diet means their poo poo is like a squirt gun and they do it everywhere and at any time; Even if they are on the side of a cage
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Sep 9, 2018 04:43
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rainbow lorikeets are really nice birds though, very friendly in a mental kind of way
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Sep 9, 2018 04:48
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EVIL Gibson posted:The weirdest tongue I've seen on a bird is from the lorikeet family. We used to have a thread regular whose lorikeet was named Squirt. For exactly that reason.
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Sep 9, 2018 04:56
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0nDYkJbGog
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Sep 9, 2018 05:15
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:We used to have a thread regular whose lorikeet was named Squirt. The lorikeet we had was a Stella Lorikeet. It was friendly where you could gently scoop it in your hands and roll it across the bed. But the call it did was nowhere as cute. It made a call like that was just a long sharp "Eeeeeeeeee". That's it. No song or variance or anything. I think it mumbled something else but it was a long time ago.  Found a video of the Eeeeeeeeee. The melanistic one does it twice. Unlike most birds with different colors, it does not suggest sex of this Lorikeet. A bird is randomly melanistic or red. If black (actually the deepest purple you can think of that looks great in the sun) there is a slight difference in color between sex where the female has a green back while the male has a red black. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxoFs-tYBOo EVIL Gibson fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Sep 9, 2018 |
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Sep 9, 2018 05:33
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Lorikeets are the prettiest bird I'd never want to own. They are cuties tho.
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Sep 9, 2018 05:45
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Lorikeets in general just love to ((((screm)))). If you live in an area where they like to sleep at night (big trees near shopping centres are their natural habitat) you will know they can be literally deafening when it's time to choose a place to nap. Rainbow lorikeets at least also enjoy eating meat if they live near people and have access to barbecues and picnics to steal from. Like many parrots they are herbivorous mostly because plants are very slow. If delicious meat didn't usually try to get away from their beaks they would eat it a lot more often.
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Sep 9, 2018 08:19
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Kookaburras also love to steal barbecue food but they are carnivorous in the wild (their favourite food is baby birds and eggs, hence why other birds freak out if they see a kookaburra nearby), so people don't act as horrified when they see them slurping down sausages.
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Sep 9, 2018 08:21
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Lorikeets in general just love to ((((screm)))). If you live in an area where they like to sleep at night (big trees near shopping centres are their natural habitat) you will know they can be literally deafening when it's time to choose a place to nap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J_XfehQxxo
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Sep 9, 2018 08:23
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Lorikeets in general just love to ((((screm)))). If you live in an area where they like to sleep at night (big trees near shopping centres are their natural habitat) you will know they can be literally deafening when it's time to choose a place to nap. also corellas
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Sep 9, 2018 08:42
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Those golden conures have the silliest voice I've heard. amazing I think I managed to find a cage that seems ok. 28x18x28 inches, with a perch and opening on top as well as a big door in the front, with a sort of landing platform. Hopefully I'll get to pick up the cockatiel tomorrow :0 I need to find some sort of UV lighting setup for the little fellow though, as the arctic winter is approaching with zero sunlight... Curious about a solution like this http://www.arcadiabird.com/e27-compact-lighting-unit/ or possibly one of those aviansun floormounted lamps. Truck Stop Daddy fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Sep 9, 2018 |
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Sep 9, 2018 14:20
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Such majesty.
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Sep 9, 2018 20:26
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Isn't it magical how birds will never sneeze until they put their head next to your eye? Ask me how I know.
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Sep 9, 2018 20:40
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That's mostly a cockatiel thing, I've found. They're particularly dusty (and sneezy) birds.
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Sep 9, 2018 20:42
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Enigma posted:That's mostly a cockatiel thing, I've found. They're particularly dusty (and sneezy) birds. Ehhhh, I've gotten my fair share of conure sneezes right in my face. Bird sneezes are weird
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Sep 9, 2018 21:07
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Enigma posted:That's mostly a cockatiel thing, I've found. They're particularly dusty (and sneezy) birds. Budgies do it, too! birds just love to sneeze
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be good and try hard!
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So I am chilling in my new apartment (new as in moved in a month ago, but still unpacking), with Sammy and Kiwi. I have way bigger window ledges than I ever have before, and am way higher up. So I set Sammy down near the window, figuring he'd love a look (Kiwi has already solidly refused to move my from shoulder because she is 100% wanting to be on me all the time). He does enjoy the window for a bit, licking it and whatnot as you do, but then the biggest discovery of all! His shadow!  He keeps bobbing his head back and forth, trying to touch and looking at me  I think it's the first time he's ever seen it so clearly like this? So now if he's on the sill, he's just sitting over there and vogue-ing and seeing the pattern it makes (if he's connecting that dot at all) 
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Sep 10, 2018 00:18
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I am not home for the next couple of weeks, but my wife managed to get a video of Bonny running through almost all her sounds. Did I ever mention that Bonny was completely tone deaf? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTacfSaBzdY
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Sep 10, 2018 00:21
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Shirec posted:So I am chilling in my new apartment (new as in moved in a month ago, but still unpacking), with Sammy and Kiwi. I have way bigger window ledges than I ever have before, and am way higher up. So I set Sammy down near the window, figuring he'd love a look (Kiwi has already solidly refused to move my from shoulder because she is 100% wanting to be on me all the time). If he's making that connection, it's a pretty big deal. That's Theory of Body and is one of the big demonstrations of animal intelligence. They test it on dolphins and great apes by using colored and invisible markers and a mirror
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Sep 10, 2018 00:35
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DarkHorse posted:If he's making that connection, it's a pretty big deal. That's Theory of Body and is one of the big demonstrations of animal intelligence. They test it on dolphins and great apes by using colored and invisible markers and a mirror Haha probs then he is just enjoying the mystery shadow. Sammy is my bright boy but he’s certainly not at the self actualizing level
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Shirec posted:So I am chilling in my new apartment (new as in moved in a month ago, but still unpacking), with Sammy and Kiwi. I have way bigger window ledges than I ever have before, and am way higher up. So I set Sammy down near the window, figuring he'd love a look (Kiwi has already solidly refused to move my from shoulder because she is 100% wanting to be on me all the time). Ama is like this with mirrors, he loooves sitting on my shoulder while I do my hair or makeup and flexing at the mirror  Shirec posted:Sammy is my bright boy
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