Bird Crazies: while he is very clever he is also very stupid

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Elmnt80: Dec 30, 2012

Truck Stop Daddy posted:

Sk8r borb

He was a skater borb
She said see you later borb
He wasn't good enough for her

# ? Feb 26, 2019 01:49

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# ? May 26, 2024 09:29

LITERALLY A BIRD: Sep 27, 2008; I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

yoshesque posted:

Maru only knows one trick but drat is she good at it!
https://i.imgur.com/SekNHVc.mp4
(turn on sound for cute)

I love conure kissing sounds so much :kimchi:

speaking of conures, this one has been sleeping like this for the last hour, the goon. His left foot is planted in my palm :lol:

# ? Feb 26, 2019 05:56

Captain Log: Oct 2, 2006; Now I am become Borb,
the Destroyer of Seeb

Serra the Cockatiel in her natural fat and sassy state.

https://youtu.be/6rUGWzgpWAw

# ? Feb 26, 2019 06:08

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I love conure kissing sounds so much

speaking of conures, this one has been sleeping like this for the last hour, the goon. His left foot is planted in my palm

Amadeus seems like such a sweet little guy.

Sorry for the loss of your left hand.

# ? Feb 26, 2019 06:10

LITERALLY A BIRD: Sep 27, 2008; I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

no egrets

# ? Feb 26, 2019 06:19

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

no egrets

I should think not - you'd never fit one in your palm.

# ? Feb 26, 2019 06:44

GoldStandardConure: Jun 11, 2010; I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow; Pillbug

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

best bird

# ? Feb 26, 2019 14:56

Faerie Fortune: Nov 14, 2004

he's so fat how is terra even real

# ? Feb 26, 2019 16:00

Plant MONSTER.: Mar 16, 2018; I was watching simpsons at 0.75 without knowing until a scene where homer and bart were getting back massages at a hotel and the noises they were making were super drawn out like a youtube poop

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I love conure kissing sounds so much

speaking of conures, this one has been sleeping like this for the last hour, the goon. His left foot is planted in my palm

Oh no!

Question for y'all, when your bird is hanging out and starts getting all cute and nappy, do you not find yourselves getting sleepy too?

Budgies have that sweet bubbly song they sing when they get sleepy, usually sends me into nap mode.

# ? Feb 26, 2019 16:19

CROWS EVERYWHERE: Dec 17, 2012; CAW CAW CAW; Dinosaur Gum

Plant MONSTER. posted:

Oh no!

Question for y'all, when your bird is hanging out and starts getting all cute and nappy, do you not find yourselves getting sleepy too?

Budgies have that sweet bubbly song they sing when they get sleepy, usually sends me into nap mode.

Yes. The sound of a sleepy bird is very soothing. Crouton and Galbedir have special songs they twitter when having a lovely nap. Beak grinding is also relaxing. I would put it up there with purring cat noises for therapeutic animal sounds.

# ? Feb 26, 2019 16:39

Tendai: Mar 16, 2007; "When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."; Grimey Drawer

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I love conure kissing sounds so much

speaking of conures, this one has been sleeping like this for the last hour, the goon. His left foot is planted in my palm

The most precious boy :3:

# ? Feb 26, 2019 16:46

theHUNGERian: Feb 23, 2006

Edit: No this one is waaaay better.

theHUNGERian fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Feb 26, 2019

# ? Feb 26, 2019 17:36

Agent355: Jul 26, 2011

I would take naps on the couch and my budgies/cockatiel would often come over and nap with me. The various budgies have always been really well mannered but sometimes I'd be rudely woken up by the cockatiel who would sleep so close to my face on the pillow, and get irritated at my nose or something if it happened to touch him.

Being woken up out of a nap by a cockatiel angrily bonking into your face and squawking is pretty disorientating let me tell you.

# ? Feb 26, 2019 18:40

Captain Log: Oct 2, 2006; Now I am become Borb,
the Destroyer of Seeb

Faerie Fortune posted:

he's so fat how is terra even real

Where did his crest go!?

# ? Feb 26, 2019 21:16

Eejit: Mar 6, 2007; Swiss Army Cockatoo
Cacatua multitoolii

Plant MONSTER. posted:

Oh no!

Question for y'all, when your bird is hanging out and starts getting all cute and nappy, do you not find yourselves getting sleepy too?

Budgies have that sweet bubbly song they sing when they get sleepy, usually sends me into nap mode.

When I'm holding Teeka and he decides it's nap time for him, it's also nap time for me

# ? Feb 26, 2019 21:36

Faerie Fortune: Nov 14, 2004

Captain Log posted:

Where did his crest go!?

He moulted exactly enough crest feathers to make it look ridiculous but his big crest feathers are growing back

# ? Feb 26, 2019 22:31

Kenshin: Jan 10, 2007

Back in November I visited the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and in an aviary filled with lorikeets I spotted this little guy and snapped some photos.

I asked the keepers about him and they'd built him a 3D-printed beak when his broke somehow. :3:

# ? Feb 27, 2019 04:35

GoldStandardConure: Jun 11, 2010; I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow; Pillbug

the blue feathers on the heads of rainbow lorikeets are the best

# ? Feb 27, 2019 10:32

Kitfox88: Aug 21, 2007; Anybody lose their glasses?

Kenshin posted:

Back in November I visited the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and in an aviary filled with lorikeets I spotted this little guy and snapped some photos.

I asked the keepers about him and they'd built him a 3D-printed beak when his broke somehow.

i remember this darkwing duck character

# ? Feb 27, 2019 10:47

Sarmhan: Nov 1, 2011

Kenshin posted:

Back in November I visited the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and in an aviary filled with lorikeets I spotted this little guy and snapped some photos.

I asked the keepers about him and they'd built him a 3D-printed beak when his broke somehow.

Tycho Birdie.

# ? Feb 27, 2019 20:22

LITERALLY A BIRD: Sep 27, 2008; I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

theHUNGERian posted:

Edit: No this one is waaaay better.

This is the most parrot thing I've ever read

# ? Feb 27, 2019 20:35

Wrath of the Bitch King: May 11, 2005; Research confirms that black is a color like silver is a color, and that beyond black is clarity.

My bird now grabs onto my hand and crawls into my palm, then uses his beak to pull my fingers down over itself like a blanket. Like I know it's a bad thing and I need to stop doing it, but it's hard...

# ? Feb 27, 2019 20:42

Budgie: Mar 9, 2007; Yeah, like the bird.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

This is the most parrot thing I've ever read

I liked how it started off as "birbs are smart and can understand us" but quickly turned into remembering they're like little two year olds.

# ? Feb 27, 2019 22:06

Captain Log: Oct 2, 2006; Now I am become Borb,
the Destroyer of Seeb

I ordered a tiny plush cockatiel off Amazon from some Japanese company. It looks super cartoony and round.

I made the mistake of showing it to Serra. She reacted strangely, with her wings sorta half extended and making sexy noises. :stare:

Less than 24 hours later Serra is in full blown egg laying mode, giving me the absolute stink eye.

Whoops.

# ? Feb 28, 2019 04:42

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

Kenshin posted:

Back in November I visited the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and in an aviary filled with lorikeets I spotted this little guy and snapped some photos.

I asked the keepers about him and they'd built him a 3D-printed beak when his broke somehow.

Cyborb.

# ? Feb 28, 2019 11:27

Disco Salmon: Jun 19, 2004

Captain Log posted:

I ordered a tiny plush cockatiel off Amazon from some Japanese company. It looks super cartoony and round.

I made the mistake of showing it to Serra. She reacted strangely, with her wings sorta half extended and making sexy noises.

Less than 24 hours later Serra is in full blown egg laying mode, giving me the absolute stink eye.

Whoops.

so...you got a cockatiel Real Doll? lol

I shouldn't laugh...I am paranoid that Cricket will go into full egg laying mode one of these days

I REALLY hope she doesn't!!

# ? Feb 28, 2019 18:12

Faerie Fortune: Nov 14, 2004

yeah we're still not 100% sure if Terra is a boy or not and my greatest fear is finding out my idiot bird son is actually my idiot bird daughter via finding eggs somewhere, or by having an egg bound cockatiel

# ? Feb 28, 2019 18:28

Tsaedje: May 11, 2007; BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

This beaky boy :3:

# ? Feb 28, 2019 19:30

RoboRodent: Sep 19, 2012

Tsaedje posted:

This beaky boy

You know, there are few animals that I look into the eyes of and see so much intelligence looking back at me. That is the gaze of a creature attempting to figure out the world.

# ? Feb 28, 2019 19:45

Suntan Boy: May 27, 2005; Stained, dirty, smells like weed, possibly a relic from the sixties.

RoboRodent posted:

You know, there are few animals that I look into the eyes of and see so much intelligence looking back at me. That is the gaze of a creature attempting to figure out the world.

And murder it.

# ? Feb 28, 2019 20:02

Tendai: Mar 16, 2007; "When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."; Grimey Drawer

Tsaedje posted:

This beaky boy

A handsome beaky lad

# ? Feb 28, 2019 20:05

RoboRodent: Sep 19, 2012

Suntan Boy posted:

And murder it.

I thought that went without saying.

# ? Feb 28, 2019 20:12

Tsaedje: May 11, 2007; BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iahl8cTZfeE

A gift from the UKMT
Extremely birb

# ? Feb 28, 2019 23:16

Karma Comedian: Feb 2, 2012

Charlie ate an unknown amount of an unknown orange substance nearly an hour ago now and even though he's showing no signs of distress I am panicking. I called the avian vet and they said to monitor him and try to figure out what the stuff is.

In that pursuit I tasted it and found out that the stuff is fruity tasting and not chemically at all, which I take as a good sign, but I'm still just freaked out to the maximum.

# ? Feb 28, 2019 23:37

EVIL Gibson: Mar 23, 2001; Internet of Things is just someone else's computer that people can't help attaching cameras and door locks to!; Switchblade Switcharoo

Karma Comedian posted:

Charlie ate an unknown amount of an unknown orange substance nearly an hour ago now and even though he's showing no signs of distress I am panicking. I called the avian vet and they said to monitor him and try to figure out what the stuff is.

In that pursuit I tasted it and found out that the stuff is fruity tasting and not chemically at all, which I take as a good sign, but I'm still just freaked out to the maximum.

i mean, shampoo is fruity smelling and you don't want birds to eat that.

if you dont have oranges in the house, then you may have to investigate the soap bars, the air fresheners, and other things.

the proof will be bird marks all up in its biz

# ? Mar 1, 2019 07:15

CROWS EVERYWHERE: Dec 17, 2012; CAW CAW CAW; Dinosaur Gum

EVIL Gibson posted:

i mean, shampoo is fruity smelling and you don't want birds to eat that.

if you dont have oranges in the house, then you may have to investigate the soap bars, the air fresheners, and other things.

the proof will be bird marks all up in its biz

Crouton and Galbedir will try to eat bars of soap if I forget to close the bathroom door when they're out. I know from personal experience that this soap tastes real bad but they can't get enough of it! They even start crunching their beaks happily and giving their "mm yummy in my tummy :keke: