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SuperKlaus posted:I mean did she bite him this time? She did not, not even a little bit!
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She's (probably) not looking for extra bite attacks of opportunity then! Congratulations on your sweet bird, whose temperament will never change for any reason or period of time.
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 When she wants that bird barf
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Listening to music and Sinbad grinds beak during some songs and squeaks during others. We discuss his taste. My SO says he's eclectic. I say "no he's a Poicephalus." 
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SuperKlaus posted:Listening to music and Sinbad grinds beak during some songs and squeaks during others. We discuss his taste. My SO says he's eclectic. I say "no he's a Poicephalus." Heyooo 
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One of my favourite things about birds is how supportive they are of your emotional state. So, say for a wild and totally random example, a two hour highway drive for work turned into a three hour drive through a snowstorm and icy conditions (passing two accidents, one of which had a very alarming number of emergency vehicles), and you get back to town too late to do a bunch of stuff you need to do which will just end up on tomorrow's list and it feels like you will never ever catch up, you can go home and rant to them about how hard your day was, and they will be supportively angry on your behalf even if it's late and they're tired and ready for bed. They may not know why I'm upset, but they stand behind me 100%. My back is just one huge knot of tension, my god.
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RoboRodent posted:My back is just one huge knot of tension, my god. It's okay, they've got it
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My newly bird loving father, who I've told you many times before we moved in together was a self described "Animal Hater" due to animal attacks in his youth, had another first today. We went to the local parrot shop for Serra to get a nail trim. Pops is still pretty intimidated by even medium sized parrots, let alone the big ones. They were pretty busy and full of boarding parrots for the holidays. I was with Serra at the counter, and Pops went back to the main room where parrots get to roam around during the day. I look back towards Dad, and a loving Eclectus male is climbing onto his shoulder. He looks slightly nervous, but also had an expression I've never really seen before - wonderment at an animal. I mentioned to my friend at the counter, "I'll be damned, Pops is terrified of birds that size and now an eclectus is on his shoulder." Her and the other woman behind the counter go  and say, "The eclectus is on his shoulder?" and immediately both looked into the bird room, where the parrot was positively chuffed at being on Pop's shoulder. Turns out, that bird hates everyone. When I walked up to say hello, he made possibly the single loudest scream I've ever heard from a parrot at me. Thank God Dad is already half deaf, or that would have ruptured his eardrums. After a bit, my father put the happy bird back on a play stand. It spent the rest of the visit following my Dad around the store, continuing to climb on him. When the employees went to gather the parrot, he started hissing and lunging. It was heart warming see my father, who is beyond skittish around animals, look like a happy toddler getting to pet a puppy. 
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I've noticed that animals, especially birds, that hate people will suddenly gravitate to people that hate animals. For some it makes sense like cats where paying attention is interpreted as hunting behavior, but it's still heartwarming to see  A common example with birds is the veteran that hates everyone and everything and the parrot that's been hurt by people helping to rehabilitate each other
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That's excellent Captain Log. Congrats on your new eclectus also lol
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DarkHorse posted:I've noticed that animals, especially birds, that hate people will suddenly gravitate to people that hate animals. For some it makes sense like cats where paying attention is interpreted as hunting behavior, but it's still heartwarming to see While he does truly hate dogs, which are the animals that mauled him, other animals seems to make him more uneasy than inspiring hatred. But with parrots, that's all been flipped on its head. Still, big birds do make him nervous as hell. I still cannot believe how ungodly loud that bird screamed at me. I feel like it beat out macaw and cockatoo screams by a long shot. Which is funny, because I've never heard much from eclectus parrots. SuperKlaus posted:That's excellent Captain Log. Congrats on your new eclectus also lol Thank God this was a boarder bird. Otherwise I might be having to explain to Pops why a bird needier than a toddler might not be the best thing to get on a whim. (He does clearly want more birds, but I'm purposely very measured before bringing new feathers into the flock.)
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Preening happily even away from home. A bird of the world, he has taken to traveling like a duck to water (my toddler nephew calls him a duck also).
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SuperKlaus posted:Preening happily even away from home. A bird of the world, he has taken to traveling like a duck to water (my toddler nephew calls him a duck also). 10/10 good duck
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Chaosfeather posted:10/10 good duck
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A GBS thread making fun of reddit had content for this thread.quote:AITA for not punishing my parrot for cursing around my nephew and niece?
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ha i guess it's fine if he gets to stay with him for the rest of his life. otherwise this can make it really hard to find homes for birds anyway i just wanted to say i think about all the posters bird friends in this thread a lot also my spouse regularly keeps up on the bird drama here
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Cythereal posted:A GBS thread making fun of reddit had content for this thread. The comments are a laugh, after they finally realised it was the parrot talking, they got mad at the parrot
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I don't know about Storm but Sinbad clearly understands every word I say because he is an intelligent special boy and therefore when I chastise him for misbehaving it works. I assume other parrots are the same.
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Cythereal posted:A GBS thread making fun of reddit had content for this thread. That is extremely stdh.txt but it's a good idea for a sitcom plot
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Not sure how old this is. Unmute! https://i.imgur.com/02xrVQO.mp4
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That's Tico (and the man)! Tico posting is always welcome. He's put out some Christmas specials recently. What's interesting to me is that while he clearly has an inventory of sounds and you start hearing familiar ones when you watch several videos, he also clearly changes up his energy level and rhythm to vaguely match the music. Also sometimes part of his vocals is "Tico!"
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Gumi is always a good watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1uVSQQ4_AM
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SuperKlaus posted:That's Tico (and the man)! Tico posting is always welcome. He's put out some Christmas specials recently. What's interesting to me is that while he clearly has an inventory of sounds and you start hearing familiar ones when you watch several videos, he also clearly changes up his energy level and rhythm to vaguely match the music. Also sometimes part of his vocals is "Tico!" I want a study on parrots and music, because this animal clearly has some understanding of pitch and improv. Certain phrases repeat, but that's going to be the case with pretty much any musician on the planet. This parrot seems to have some grasp not only of music, but pitch and improv.
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There is a lorikeet family with two babies in the tree right outside my door, and they have been screaming at their parents for food all morning. Kids, man.
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This seems an appropriate enough time to post Amadeus enjoying her 80s music.  Fleetwood Mac Radio are her current jams. She's lucky I love her.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:This seems an appropriate enough time to post Amadeus enjoying her 80s music. That there is a goofus
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I don't have Facebook any more but apparently there's a page called "Thiccles the fat purple ringneck " which, sold on title alone But they also apparently have two green cheeks called "the beans" who were siblings and having an incestuous love affair. They had been oiling the eggs but apparently missed one, because hello incest baby  They named him Joffrey And of course the parrots you don't want breeding turn out to be amazing first time parents
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DarkHorse posted:I don't have Facebook any more but apparently there's a page called "Thiccles the fat purple ringneck " which, sold on title alone he's already adorable
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Some friends came to visit yesterday. https://i.imgur.com/ZG40yvG.mp4
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Patrovsky posted:Some friends came to visit yesterday. God, I live in the wrong country. I would never leave my porch.
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Patrovsky posted:Some friends came to visit yesterday. Tongues flailing like punk rockers
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Patrovsky posted:Some friends came to visit yesterday. These are alien beings (and I love them)
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Tsaedje posted:These are alien beings (and I love them) Those two in particular are big old weirdos. If they see my hands, they will run up to try and bite them. Before I started filming here, they were running up to my arms to try and find my hidden hands so they could take a chomp out, but once the camera came out, they were a little more dramatic.
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Friend of mine did up a painting in procreate she titled “King Crow,” which I used some of my personal project allowances at work to have printed on acrylic (with an extra copy for me, with her permission.) Since I know we have some corvid fans in the thread, for your consideration: 
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