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Feeding Wild Birds in Winter

BIRD NOTES:

WINTER BIRD FEEDING

If you feed birds, you’re in good company. Birding as a hobby currently stands second only to gardening as America’s favorite pastime. A 1997 report from the Kaytee Avian Foundation estimates that 43 percent of U.S. households or about 65 million people provide food for wild birds. And, as a nation, we spend at least 2.5 billion dollars annually on bird-related products, including birdseed and bird feeders.
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Wild Bird Feeding Questions

You recently started feeding the birds. Do not be surprised if you do not see birds immediately. It may take several weeks before birds will find a new feeder setup. Be sure to provide the appropriate set-up when starting. Include several different feeder options in your set-up and a variety of seeds to attract different types of birds. Also make sure that your yard provides a bird friendly habitat. If you have few trees or shrubs in the area of your feeder, they may not be attracted to it. Trees and shrubbery provide protective cover to birds in case of predators.
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Free Bird Training Videos - Aggressive Biting Birds & What Not To Do

Free Bird Training Videos – Aggressive Biting Birds & What Not To Do

Email Newsletter 10/09/2011

It’s said in the veterinary community that the volume of knowledge with regards to parrots is doubling every five years.

Yet day after day we hear the same refrain “my bird bit me”. We’re not behaviorists. If you’re looking for a bird behaviorist look at Scott Robbins seen in the first video (left) below.
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Helpful Pet Birdcage Cleaning Tips for Novices and Experts

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Email Newsletter 09/29/2011

Single most asked question at Windy City Parrot?

“Why is my bird so messy”?

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Two New Birds

Catherine Tobsing
April 14, 2010
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Rescue / Bird Supplies Info
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Kriselle and I had chatted on the phone a month ago.

She shared her plans to bring two baby birds into her home.

She was taking a year off from work and felt it would give her the opportunity to make the right home for the birds.

I’ll make a note here that I recommend she start leaving the house about 3 months before returning to work starting with shorter periods but ramping up to full 8 – 10 hour days to help the birds adjust to a “prolonged absence”

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List of 55 Fruit Dove Species

Banded Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus cinctus

Red-naped Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus dohertyi

Pink-headed Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus porphyreus

Flame-breasted Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus marchei

Cream-breasted Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus merrilli

Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus occipitalis

Red-eared Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus fischeri

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Bird Supply

One of the things that makes the bird supply business unique is that it’s a much smaller segment of the pet supply business. The bird supply category represents about 3.5% of American households versus about 50% each for cats and dogs.

Catherine started her bird supply business in the early nineties selling primarily bird and parrot toy parts at bird shows. WindyCityParrot.com became on on line bird supply website in 2001 on the heels of 9/11 as bird show attendance began to ebb.
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A Follow Up to Our Budgie with a Broken Wing

Bird Cage – Windy City Parrot

Catherine Tobsing
April 14, 2010
Bird Cage Info / Bird Supplies Info / Website Shopping
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Much has been written about the bird cage. Almost every web site that tries to sell you a bird cage will offer information on how to purchase the right bird cage. Proper bird cage bar spacing, proper bird cage size – every bird cage website has an opinion.

At the end-of-the-day, much of the bird cage information you read boils down to just that, opinion. Am I starting to ruffle some feathers – good? The reality is, a reality we’ve built after selling a bird cage to thousands of pet bird owners.
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Why Parrots Need Bird Toys

Catherine Tobsing
April 14, 2010
Bird Supplies Info / Foraging and Enrichment / Habitats for caged birds
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Busy beaks are happy beaks!

A minimum of ten toys should hang in a well-furnished cage.

Parrots should not be easily seen in their cage. This is their home and they should feel camouflaged as in the wild.

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Hagen Tropican Bird Food Pellets

Catherine Tobsing
April 13, 2010
Bird Nutrition / Feeding Exotic Birds / Feeding Pet Birds
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Tropican is the only formulated food line that most birds will need in their lifetime, from a newly hatched baby chick to a mature, breeding adult.

For baby chicks, Tropican Breeding Diet is a formula product with no guesswork, recipes or cooking required. Tropican High-Performance Granules provide stressed or breeding birds with extra protein and minerals.

For regular maintenance, Tropican Lifetime Granules or Lifetime Food Sticks ensure that fussy eaters get a full balanced diet. Since Tropican incorporates vitamins and minerals, the Prime Supplement is not needed. (more…)

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Feeding Wild Birds in Winter

Wild Bird Feeding Questions

Free Bird Training Videos – Aggressive Biting Birds & What Not To Do

Helpful Pet Birdcage Cleaning Tips for Novices and Experts

Two New Birds

List of 55 Fruit Dove Species

Bird Supply

Bird Cage – Windy City Parrot

Why Parrots Need Bird Toys

Hagen Tropican Bird Food Pellets

Since 1993Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free$7 Ships Small

Toll Free877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,Lowell, IN 46356 USA

Since 1993
Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free
$7 Ships Small

Toll Free
877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,
Lowell, IN 46356 USA