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Was getting the birds all ready for bed, took the water bowls out of their cages to clean and refill, and when I came back Ohtori was waiting by the door in an aggressive/angry pose, with a pellet held in his beak. When I opened the door to put the bowl in he made angry noises at me, and dunked his pellet before I'd even the bowl in the holder. He was so mad he couldn't soak his pellet.  Also, the other day-when I was taking all my breakfast supplies through rooms using both hands, I gave Ohtori a Cheerio and put him on my arm. He instantly ran down it and dunked the Cheerio in my glass of kvass before I could do anything about it. He's also recently taken to eating Inko's Harrison's pellets as a treat, even though they're the tiny fine size and he likes to hold his food-so when ordering Inko's supply, we ordered some coarse size pellets for 'Tori too. Once he's finished the rest of his Nutribird (which is going to take a loooooong time), he'll be on Harrison's instead. Can't have Inko looking better than him, after all. Battle Pigeon fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Apr 7, 2014 |
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Sigh. We moved a couple of months ago and now Hannah has learned to bark like a nearby dog that must stay outside during the day. He's been doing it all day off and on. It's funny but it took me by surprise today because it came out of nowhere. I swear he practices stuff for us while we're at work during the day.
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Apr 6, 2014 23:57
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Battle Pigeon posted:Was getting the birds all ready for bed, took the water bowls out of their cages to clean and refill, and when I came back Ohtori was waiting by the door in an aggressive/angry pose, with a pellet held in his beak. When I opened the door to put the bowl in he made angry noises at me, and dunked his pellet before I'd even the bowl in the holder. He was so mad he couldn't soak his pellet. Oh my god Ohtori is full of indignant rage
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Apr 7, 2014 01:36
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So in December Zomo and I are going to make the big transition into Big Adult World and will be moving into a new house that we will (hopefully) stay in for....ever, roughly. And I'm wanting to make a nice space for the birds to hang out so we can stop having to let them perch on a day cage that's way too small for three birds to coexist happily. What do you guys think would be the best? Should I just buy a big play stand? Or maybe try to construct something out of wood... If anyone has any nice big play stands that are affordable (lawl.) I would appreciate hearing about them! You guys always have the best recommendations, worked great for cages and harnesses, let's get three for three 
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Apr 7, 2014 10:52
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Amaya posted:So in December Zomo and I are going to make the big transition into Big Adult World and will be moving into a new house that we will (hopefully) stay in for....ever, roughly. And I'm wanting to make a nice space for the birds to hang out so we can stop having to let them perch on a day cage that's way too small for three birds to coexist happily. What do you guys think would be the best? Should I just buy a big play stand? Or maybe try to construct something out of wood... If anyone has any nice big play stands that are affordable (lawl.) I would appreciate hearing about them! I really gotta recommend cutting down a big branch of a tree (that you've checked is not poisonous), giving it a good scrub, and sticking it in a Christmas tree stand. My birdies spend all their time on that and you can hang toys and treats anywhere on it. If you're not up for a whole tree in your house, you can do a smaller table-top version using smaller pieces. Birds love to chew on wood and it's really cute to see them in their tree in the window from the outside of the house.
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Apr 7, 2014 12:31
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I just moved myself and one of the things I'll be picking up is this: http://www.thatpetplace.com/zoo-max...CFeMSOgodlikAwg Or something similar anyway. My tiels like to climb, I think they'll enjoy this a bunch. I'm gonna hang it over a corner in the computer room, put some plastic sheets below it and let them chill there when I'm in the room.
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Apr 7, 2014 16:07
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Battle Pigeon posted:Also, the other day-when I was taking all my breakfast supplies through rooms using both hands, I gave Ohtori a Cheerio and put him on my arm. He instantly ran down it and dunked the Cheerio in my glass of kvass before I could do anything about it. Birds. Last night I had to scoop Mindo up and deposit him on another perch multiple times, because he was super interested in trying my glass of wine.
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Apr 7, 2014 18:31
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Iro still thinks my hands are literally Hitler unless I'm wearing gloves. I've tried switching the gloves while she's looking, slooooowly taking them off in front of her like it's some kind of bizarre hand porno, and tried having gloves half on to no effect. As soon as hands are there they are Satan Babykiller Supremes and as soon as gloves are on they are Headrub Machines. My bird is broken and stupid. Making another SUI comic. Stay tuned. :B
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Apr 7, 2014 18:45
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Amaya posted:So in December Zomo and I are going to make the big transition into Big Adult World and will be moving into a new house that we will (hopefully) stay in for....ever, roughly. And I'm wanting to make a nice space for the birds to hang out so we can stop having to let them perch on a day cage that's way too small for three birds to coexist happily. What do you guys think would be the best? Should I just buy a big play stand? Or maybe try to construct something out of wood... If anyone has any nice big play stands that are affordable (lawl.) I would appreciate hearing about them! Doesn't matter. I hope you don't mind chew marks, frayed threads and poop stains on all your furniture.
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Apr 7, 2014 18:59
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Ohtori earlier spent a lot of time perched on the spray bottle chewing on the nozzle, it kept him quiet and in one spot, and he wasn't able to bite bits off, so I didn't discourage him from it. Turns out he was figuring out how it worked, followed by meticulously unscrewing it until it came off. I turned around in time to see it come off in his beak, and him instantly flying off into the distance with it.Staryberry posted:
And how dare you do that to him, right? Does he get mad or anything at you when you do that, and what does it look like?
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Apr 8, 2014 00:38
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He never really displays anger at us (or if he does, we don't know how to recognize it). Usually it's the more simple emotional journey: "I want that wine." "Now there is an obstacle I have to get around to get it" "I nearly got to it, but now there is another obstacle!" "Maybe if I fly away and then fly back... dang it! It happened again!" "Ooh shiny thing!" When he doesn't like an object, the feathers on the back of his neck puff out, he stands real tall, and he makes low grunting noises that sound like "MERK. MERK." Objects that deserve these threats include one of my belts, my cell phone, the wipes we use to clean up his poop, the tube of chapstick I offered him as a play toy this morning, etc. I'll try and get you a video or photo of him being threatening.
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Apr 8, 2014 01:21
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I would not be opposed to an All-Mindo-All-the-Time channel.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:06
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Amaya posted:So in December Zomo and I are going to make the big transition into Big Adult World and will be moving into a new house that we will (hopefully) stay in for....ever, roughly. And I'm wanting to make a nice space for the birds to hang out so we can stop having to let them perch on a day cage that's way too small for three birds to coexist happily. What do you guys think would be the best? Should I just buy a big play stand? Or maybe try to construct something out of wood... If anyone has any nice big play stands that are affordable (lawl.) I would appreciate hearing about them! I'm not sure what your definition of affordable this, but my parents gave us this for a christmas present 2 or 3 years ago: http://www.amazon.com/Tree-Stand-with-Base-Medium/dp/B003C1057M/ref=pd_sim_sbs_petsupplies_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0HEE7R6KKDG46E6MQDTE It has held up very well so far, and is big enough for my cockatiel and GCC to hang out away from each other since Nugget doesn't like Ozzy.  Edit: The dish isn't really big enough to put food in, plus it is so high up that any dropped food will end up all over your house.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:40
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I think Sunny is going through puberty, he's starting to be a birdbutt and rubbing his butt on everything, biting his favourite people and screaming all day. Also I would love to see more angryMindo, I am curious as to how an angry toucan would look like. EDIT: Oh my, I have a gangtag too! Thanks Literally A Bird!
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Apr 8, 2014 04:30
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Nthing the need for angryMindo and for the return of Toucam. Deadly Chlorine posted:EDIT: Oh my, I have a gangtag too! Thanks Literally A Bird! Least I could do, you've linked me so many adorable birds!
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Apr 8, 2014 04:57
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And you got a new avatar of bird too! I'm terrible with names.
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Apr 8, 2014 07:02
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Now Pete has started humping his toys. Ah, spring! Thanks for the harness suggestion. I'll be sure to post the numerous injuries I sustain as the training begins.
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Apr 8, 2014 13:17
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Ugh, speaking of birds and trying to get food they can't have, I was making toast with Nutella on it the other day, with Simon trying to get to it the entire time. I go and sit down, with Simon on his playpen. Simon then screams "the birdy come here!" as he jumps from his perch and flies like he is going to land on my shoulder, as he tends to do, but at the last minute he just pulls his wings in and just drops directly on top of the toast, sending him and the piece of toast that is now adhered to his belly onto my stomach. Needless to say I made sure he didn't eat any and he got a second bath that day since he was pretty much covered in Nutella. By the way, does anyone else have issues with their bird and them getting suddenly aggressive about certain things? I discovered the other day that Simon hates pill bottles. I went to grab some Motrin the other day and as soon as the pills rattled in the bottle, Simon screamed in horror, flew to me and bit my thumb that was holding the bottle hard enough to draw blood. This is probably the third time he has tried to attack me when I was getting pills from a bottle.
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Apr 8, 2014 14:40
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jadebullet posted:Simon then screams "the birdy come here!" as he jumps from his perch and flies like he is going to land on my shoulder, as he tends to do, but at the last minute he just pulls his wings in and just drops directly on top of the toast, sending him and the piece of toast that is now adhered to his belly onto my stomach. That first bit paints such a great picture, ha ha! As far as aggressiveness toward random objects, well, it sounds like you have a functioning bird. I think we all have lists of things we do out of sight/reach of our birds (right?) Zippy's hate list follows: Hairbrushes Eggs (whole and fried) Paper towels Spray bottles Loose socks Putting away boots Laundry chores in general Any of those objects or activities make her see red enough that I have received some pretty good bites for not paying attention to where she is before I start whatever I'm doing.
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Apr 8, 2014 15:13
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I have also discovered that with the exception of me, Simon doesn't like people with beards. We have had two guests come over that had beards and he flew over to them and tried to bite at their lips, which caused him to spend the rest of the visit in his cage. Any other guest though, and he is very happy and friendly. And he is perfectly fine with my beard. Goofy birds.
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Apr 8, 2014 15:23
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Nthing the need for angryMindo and for the return of Toucam. Last night we got out a bunch of the things Mindo hates and tried to record him. Any time the cell phone was recording he was just curious about the item or played with it. I was recording him with the cell phone cover he hates on the phone, nada. Just looking into the phone. We have probably 5 minutes of him playing with things he hates. Birds.
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Apr 8, 2014 15:45
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The budgies don't really care about most things in our house, but my foam roller and hula hoops are budgie devouring monsters. It's mighty useful when they've gotten upstairs, and are being little assholes that refuse to step up and fly around for hours, rather than go back to the room where all their food and toys are. All I have to do is pick up the foam roller and ~whoosh~ nothing but displaced air left. I discovered it one day when I gave up chasing them and decided to roll out my IT band while I waited them out. Only thing they hate that actually makes sense is the Roomba. It's loud and eats all the food they were leaving on the floor for later.
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Apr 8, 2014 16:25
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Keats and Petula are both deathly afraid of the garbage bin when I bring it over on cage cleaning days, but they're perfectly fine with the noisy vacuum cleaner. Also Keats often plants himself millimeters away from my face and naps, but god forbid if he ever catches me mid yawn as then it's time to viciously attack my mouth. Even if he's playing on my lap, if I start to yawn he'll dart up my chest to attack my lips. I just don't understand bird brains sometimes. 
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Apr 8, 2014 18:18
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Neither of my birds "hate" any particular items. Alexis is terrified of the vacuum cleaner and of any pans in the kitchen. Actually she seems pretty scared of any kitchen items in general which isn't a bad thing, she won't ever go into the kitchen on her own. Auri just doesn't want people to touch her, but she never shows any aggression toward anything, and doesn't exhibit any particular fear either. She's real drat chill. Actually, she's even started to allow me to touch her head without whining or dodging too much. Speaking of which, I've been taking her outside for longer and longer periods of time whenever it is nice out and she seems to really enjoy it. She also holds onto my shoulder nice and firmly. I'm taking her on her first long walk with some friends through a park on Saturday to see how she does. Kenshin fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Apr 8, 2014 |
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Apr 8, 2014 18:22
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-A7n_wD3O4 Bird chatter! And surprise bird attack at 1:44 Ritz hates controllers, the remote, our DSes and anything with buttons really. Also the vacuum, not the noise, just the physical thing. Frozen Pizza Party fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Apr 8, 2014 |
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Apr 8, 2014 19:38
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Ozzy hates anything that jingles/rattles. I think that is a default GCC setting. Also my phone. Also anything that I drink out of. Fake edit: I got gang tagged! Thanks!  
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Apr 8, 2014 23:49
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Goldy is being Mr. Bitey Butt. He teases to come out, then runs to the back of his cage or clambers down the the bottom of it in the hopes of luring us in to be bitten. For the most part he isn't too bad to me, but he's been a little bastard to my husband. Ahh, the joys of spring. Boo hates remotes, texting, hair brushes, and the nets to the aquariums. I've decided that the remote issue is just a part of being a lovebird, all that I've owned hate them. I keep trying to get a picture of her when she is a little birdy puddle of total relaxation during scratching but her anger over the phone being what I text on overrides the joy of snuggling. Last week I accidentally broke part of my big toenail, shattering it. I went in the bedroom and used tweezers to remove the broken nail, not thinking at all about Boo being there to watch the proceedings, and ended up with a raw spot where the nail had been. A while later I had Boo out playing on her boings while I crocheted. She hopped down, let me take her picture, and once I took up my work she was puttering on the bed. Apparently deciding she was going to be helpful she ran right down and chomped on my newly injured toe. I about went through the roof and she fluffed out into a proud blue poof, so happy she was being Dr. Boo. Chicken in Black fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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Apr 9, 2014 00:46
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Got a proof of the portrait of Scout from the kickstarter project  It's going to be my wife's birthday present.
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Apr 9, 2014 01:37
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Wow, that's beautiful! I actually came here to post: if you haven't tried it yet, give your bird chunks of medjool dates. Mine have liked a lot of foods but this seems to be up and away their favorite.
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Apr 9, 2014 01:55
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I was reading a post I made in GBS when I noticed something blinking under my avatar, it appears I have been marked as a bird crazy! Thanks to whoever gave the sig to me.
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Apr 9, 2014 04:01
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I can't say any of my budgies had a particular hatred for objects around the house, but Pete (RIP) had a serious problem with the Good Humor truck. Not that he ever saw it, no, that wasn't the issue. It was the music that set him off. If he were out playing and the soft, melodic jingle of "Pop Goes the Weasel" began to rise in the distance, Pete's eyes would go wide, his feathers would slick to his body, and he'd stand frozen in palpable terror until the music peaked and then faded away. It was like watching a Vietnam vet who just heard a car backfire: you could practically see scenes of PTSD-inducing horror flashing across his face. None of the other budgies cared or noticed the music. Just Pete. Weird, strange little Pete. He was an adopted bird, so I had to wonder what kind of encounters, if any, he had with the Good Humor truck before he came to me...
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I'm going away this weekend, so Chuffy is going to be staying with some friends. I KNOW he'll be okay, and everything will be fine. He'll have all his toys with him to play with, and the people who are looking after him are lovely people who are great with birds. It's the same couple who looked after Uglynoodles' budgies over Christmas while I watched Iro, so it's not like I even have to worry about them not knowing how to look after Chuffy. One of them even works from home, so he'll have plenty of company. But I STILL can't stop fretting about him. Sometimes I catch myself worrying about loving stupid poo poo like WHAT IF HOW THEY SAY GOODNIGHT TO CHUFFY IS DIFFERENT TO HOW I DO IT AND CHUFFY GETS CONFUSED AND UPSET? A few times I've even thought about cancelling the weekend, but thankfully I'm too cheap to do that as I've already paid for it and wouldn't get refunded. At this point I'm really looking forward to the weekend being over just so that I can see with undeniable certainty that every was fine and will be the next time I go away. Even though everything is obviously totally going to be fine, I'm still gonna miss the hell outta Chuffy. Anyway, sorry for rambling. Here's Chuffy perching on my face a few days ago. Really hard to take pictures with a bird all up in your face. 
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Pip pip pip posted:Ozzy hates anything that jingles/rattles. I think that is a default GCC setting. Also my phone. Also anything that I drink out of. Yeah, my GCC is some sort of terror inducing bell murderer when he hears a jingle jangle. Then he dances over the dangling corpse of his enemy. While saying Gooooood buuuuuurd. E: Or cackling like an evil supervillain.
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Amadeus can tell I'm not in a great mood today. He's glued to my shoulder and won't stop giving me kisses or asking "Baby?" in that stupid little bird voice. If I ask him what he's doing he assures me "pretty Bird" and goes right back to kisses. 
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Apr 9, 2014 21:30
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 I swear I didn't add filters, Alexis was just sunbathing and with the wide-open aperture (f/1.6) it made her glow. 
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Apr 9, 2014 23:36
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Leeloo has her butt propped up on some of her rounder shaped toys and is swaying her head going 'rrrr rrrr rrrr'. Anyone else have a GCC do this? I am assuming it is hormone related.
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Apr 10, 2014 00:50
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Congratulations, you have a masturbating potato.
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Apr 10, 2014 01:14
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Man Kenshin, your bird's eye is really cool looking. Also that photo is really stunning. Edit: Simon has also learned to laugh recently, though only when my fiance is laughing, and normally only when she is laughing at me for some sort of clumsy stupid thing that I have done or said. The other night I was trying to put him to bed, and every time I went into the hallway he would take off and then just spent several minutes just flying around the room, stopping to laugh at me as my fiance laughed, then taking off again. Finally I just cupped him upside down and carried him to bed. jadebullet fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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Apr 10, 2014 02:58
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jadebullet posted:Man Kenshin, your bird's eye is really cool looking. Also that photo is really stunning. She has these beautiful silver/light gray irises. Duskies are really beautiful little birds, if not as flashy as Sun Conures or GCCs. 
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Yeah, those silver irises really change the entire dynamic of the Conure face. Duskies are very beautiful. I can't wait to see more awesome pictures like that.
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