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Tendai posted:How do cockatiels survive in the wild. How is that a reasonable spot to lay an egg. it's warm and she is always safe when she's with her owner 
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be good and try hard! 
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Hug in a Can posted:it's warm and she is always safe when she's with her owner  Interesting article about the study of how parrot genetics set them apart from other birds in a similar way that human genetics do from other primates https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/science/parrots-genes-longevity.html quote:The Genes That Make Parrots Into the Humans of the Bird World
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Sometimes I come home from work (I'm a veterinary technician, for those not in the know) with scratches and/or soon-to-be-scars all over my hands or fingers. It's never anything serious -- usually just a dog that resisted its temperature being taken. But Amadeus is always very concerned and has to tend to all my injuries.  
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Dec 9, 2018 04:45
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Ama is a very good boy
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Dec 9, 2018 04:56
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Crouton and Galbedir are enjoying nectarine season. They are forbidden from nibbling at the pits with leftover flesh obviously but they love nibbling at whole ones with the side cut off so they don't have to bite through the skin. Galbedir actually nibbles and takes little chunks off while Crouton pierces it with her beak and slurps the juice with her tongue like a lorikeet. Cheese of all types is obviously evil and must be screamed at. Doubly so if you draw eyes on it to turn it into a Bird Frightening Device.
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Dec 9, 2018 05:29
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Please post pictures of them if you can that sounds adorable
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Dec 9, 2018 05:32
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Tendai posted:Please post pictures of them if you can that sounds adorable 
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Dec 9, 2018 05:57
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Well, since Serra has been in full blown egg mode, this is about all she'll do if she sees the camera.  The only thing that changes that grumpus attitude? Why ham, of course. Birb loves ham.  I also set this plate where I thought her clipped but couldn't get to it. She now likes hot sauce.  Can't you just eat the fruit and veg, you silly thing!?
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The positive about Alfi’s disability is that we can take him for walks.  He spent his time yesterday flock calling to a pack of galahs, got swooped by a magpie and just screaming back at the juvenile galahs.  Good bird. yoshesque fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Dec 10, 2018 |
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Dec 10, 2018 01:16
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what gorgeous birbs! Serra is so pretty, and Alfi is a handsome fella too! Good birds
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Sometimes I come home from work (I'm a veterinary technician, for those not in the know) with scratches and/or soon-to-be-scars all over my hands or fingers. It's never anything serious -- usually just a dog that resisted its temperature being taken. But Amadeus is always very concerned and has to tend to all my injuries. The Best Boy... Beryl 'tends' to my cuts, and by that I mean she rips scabs off to drink at the sweet nectar within
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Dec 10, 2018 16:38
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In 12 years, he's never done this. Usually he just wants to stand in the water and dip his beak, and then shake his head. Had to clip his wings yesterday, he was getting kinda flighty, but kept having crash landings. Didn't want to risk him getting hurt. Man he looked so cool with long wing feathers.  Bonus thievery pic. 
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Dec 10, 2018 19:47
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Just casually stealing a piece of bread as big as my torso
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:
I am completely slain by the cuteness here. There are no words.
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Tendai posted:How do cockatiels survive in the wild. How is that a reasonable spot to lay an egg. I forgot to reply to this - For some reason this post has stuck in my head and cracked me up for days. She managed to put the next egg in her cage. But she doesn't seem to understand sitting on them. She just beaks them around into a clump, then sits next to it with the angry eyes. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9XLsDSxdMA Ok that does it, I now enjoy winter again
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Captain Log posted:I forgot to reply to this - For some reason this post has stuck in my head and cracked me up for days. Dunno about cockatiels, but chicken eggs can sit around indefinitely before incubation starts. That way, the hen can sit on them when she's done laying and they'll all hatch at the same time, instead of all of them being offset by a day. Once they start, though, they can't stop until they hatch or else they'll die, so hens go into a bit of a trance and don't eat, poop, or even drink all that much. In fact groups of chickens will have some layers that don't care for their eggs and some broody hens will just collect every egg they can steal from the layers. So sitting nearby could just be her not wanting to start the clock before she laid more. Of course, it could just be 
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Auri training update time, it's been a while. She has discovered the wonder that is nutriberries, and while she's always been food motivated, she goes nuts for these things. So they are helping as rewards. The past year or so we've continued to work on being ok with touching so that she can be safely handled. She's doing really well in this respect; she doesn't like being touched, but in the past year we've gone from angry loud squawking and wing flapping to annoyed protest (sometimes accompanied by wing flapping) and we're just starting to get to the point where it's grudgingly tolerated for a few seconds, or if I "poke" at her (usually without touching) it's more of a familiar "back off bud" annoyed sound than anything else. As with last winter, I've let her flight feathers grow back in. Since I'm not taking her outside in the cold, I may as well let her have mobility indoors and continue teaching her to fly. Last winter we got to the point where she had learned to land without damaging her tail feathers and do rudimentary turns. So far this fall/winter we've made a pretty big advance, beyond just refining her existing turning and landing skills: she's learned that she can fly upwards. It makes sense that she didn't realize she could do this; she's almost never been flighted, and even though I try and encourage wing exercise as much as possible, even last winter she was only maintaining altitude-to-gliding downward. It was actually pretty funny the very first time that I saw it "click" for her: I had encouraged her to fly off my finger from her perch across the room to the top of her cage, something she'd never done without me giving her an upward boost. The moment she landed on her cage she started making one of her happiest sounds repeatedly and just kept doing it while pacing around on top of her cage. So I gave her a nutriberry and she got even happier--she must have been making happy sounds for a solid 5 minutes. That was just a week ago! This past week we've been working on continuing that and building on it, so now she's flying to her cage both when I am near her perch and when I'm near her cage (so flying both from and to me). This evening I started teaching her to fly the other direction, cage to perch. This is something she's fairly used to doing, but only when I give her direction my letting her launch off my finger--the goal is to be able to call her over to me. Next month, we'll start working on recall training flying to my finger. Kenshin fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Dec 11, 2018 |
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Captain Log posted:She managed to put the next egg in her cage. But she doesn't seem to understand sitting on them. She just beaks them around into a clump, then sits next to it with the angry eyes. redgubbinz posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9XLsDSxdMA
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DarkHorse posted:Dunno about cockatiels, but chicken eggs can sit around indefinitely before incubation starts. That way, the hen can sit on them when she's done laying and they'll all hatch at the same time, instead of all of them being offset by a day. Once they start, though, they can't stop until they hatch or else they'll die, so hens go into a bit of a trance and don't eat, poop, or even drink all that much. In fact groups of chickens will have some layers that don't care for their eggs and some broody hens will just collect every egg they can steal from the layers. This is how it works with parrots too more or less, so I'd wager this is what she is doing. I recommend buying fake eggs online if you haven't already. Definitely do not remove the eggs from her until she gets bored of them in her own time or she'll just keep laying more trying to get a full clutch. Laying eggs in general is very hard on birds, taking a lot of energy and shittons of calcium and other minerals.
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Interesting read: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/11/legitimate-zoo-obscure-german-group-endangered-parrots-actp?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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"Sorry I can't come out for lunch today, I'm in a meeting that's running long" "Is it the bird again" "...no"
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 Boggle is King of Snuggle Mountain  He is also a loud boy
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When I'm watching something on my Iphone and it's mostly black, Serra will catch her reflection. Then she runs up to it, crest extended, beak bonks the reflection, then goes behind the phone as if she is squawking at a bird through a window. Then after three times of SEEING a birb but not being able to FIND the bird, she grabs my phone and flips it face down.
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Crouton usually tries to feed her reflection while Galbedir yells happily at his from afar. Their shadows, however, are obviously evil and must be yelled at angrily with much flapping of wings and Getting Real Long And Skinny.
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today Terra left me a present in his food bowl! his first moulted pin feather! Up until now he's just been moulting down feathers but this is the first "solid" feather I've seen. My little baby is growing up!
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https://imgur.com/gallery/M1OEr9t This is Whiskey, my gcc. What inanimate objects does your guys’ bird fight and lose to?
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Perhaps a penguin posted:https://imgur.com/gallery/M1OEr9t Named after, and currently drunk on? 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Named after, and currently drunk on? Explains why he thought the TP tube was talking poo poo
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I'm saving my pictures for Serra Sunday, but my bird now officially eat bacon. No veggies, no fruit, but a sandwich with bacon? She'll run across the room and snatch a piece of bacon. How do these birds survive in the wild?!?!
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Sheer numbers.
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Patrovsky posted:Sheer numbers.
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Tendai posted:Flockatiels I can watch a youtube video of a flock of budgies, and sort of get that they're wild animals, but if I watch a video of flockatiels, it doesn't quiet parse for me. Like, they're so ingrained in my brain as shoulder doofuses that it feels fake to see them out there living in trees and drinking from lakes.
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I have watched a cockatiel investigate an open mouth by sticking its head inside. I think the survival instinct got tossed out along the way to make room for something that seemed very important at the time
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Patrovsky posted:
I really need to go to fuckoffnowhere in Australia someday and see them in the flesh.
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Tendai posted:I get the same way - budgies? Yep. Cockatoos? Yep. A flock of cockatiels? My brain goes "Who let those goofuses free???" I wonder if they scream at food that's the wrong colour in the wild  I need to find out where I can go find them, for when I head back home. Road trip just to see cockatiels.
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Soooo, I just noticed that, when I did a picture for the birds thread in PYF, it was quoted here too. I kinda forgot all about the actual pets forum! That being said, here thread, have a picture.  Without BG:  Yes, that's a least weasel. All other weasels, while certainly as noble a steed as any, would just be too big I greatly value realism in these pictures!
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Patrovsky posted:I wonder if they scream at food that's the wrong colour in the wild Dunno about budgies and cockateils, but galahs and especially cockatoos just love to perch on high places and scream at nothing in particular, or possibly me.
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