Control Your Bird With the Amazing Zombie Death Grip!
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Control Your Bird With the Amazing Zombie Death Grip!

We buy mortgage insurance for our homes and auto insurance for our cars.

We buy cars with airbags because they’re safer

We wear bicycle helmets.

We make our kids wear bicycle helmets.

When we have a babysitter watch our children we provide a list of numbers where we can be reached.

We bring a bird into our home who could conceivably be with us for decades and yet we fail to take the fundamental steps to help us cope with avian emergencies that will – eventually happen.

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Is Tea a Magic Potion for Your Bird? Should You Be Using It?
Is Tea a Magic Potion for Your Bird? Should You Be Using It?

Is Tea a Magic Potion for Your Bird? Should You Be Using It?

Hello Mitch:

Love your birdie brunch and have learned much from it.

Do you know whether or not it’s harmful to give a budgie green tea? Don’t know if you heard of the lady with the 26-year old budgie who claimed he was so long-lived because they shared a cup of green tea every day.

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Can the lack of change in your bird’s life drive it’s bad behavior?
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Can the lack of change in your bird’s life drive it’s bad behavior?

I received a phone call from a woman with a 15-year-old Blue Front Amazon.
He was in the original cage he had come home in 15 years ago.
The cage needed replacing and she was seeking a residential model.
Because he didn’t like being in the (24″ x 24″ brass) bird cage he had his own room.
In the room was his own futon.
He perched on top of the futon where he’d been whittling down the wood for a while and spent a lot of time under the futon on a blanket.

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7 Edge of Your Seat Tantalizing Heart Pounding Bird Bathing Videos
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7 Edge of Your Seat Tantalizing Heart Pounding Bird Bathing Videos

Don’t blame me. Marketing said to use that title.

Parrots in the wild bathe by receiving a gentle misting on a regular basis simply by enjoying the rain. In this video, you’ll see a Lorikeet in Australia having a wonderful day sucking nectar from flowers while bathing courtesy of Mother nature. One-way Lorikeets get nutrition is just like Hummingbirds, from the nectar found in flowers.

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6 Bird Safe All Natural Home Made Human Mosquito Repellents
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6 Bird Safe All Natural Home Made Human Mosquito Repellents

& we explore the safety of citronella mosquito repellent in a bird’s world

File under something like “life imitating art or nature”?

I don’t know how you can tell them apart (unless you know to look for the female’s proboscis) but it’s interesting to note that only female mosquitoes bite, males do not. They both need some sort of nectar to sustain themselves but the females need blood to lay their eggs.

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Will Changing the Term “Cage” to “Home” Fix Our Bird’s Behavioral Problems?
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Will Changing the Term “Cage” to “Home” Fix Our Bird’s Behavioral Problems?

 In a recent article in birds.about.com, Patricia Sund a “Pet Birds Expert”, states the case that the word “cage” is brutal, antiquated and out of date.

She feels bird cages should be called a “house” or “room”.She compares it to a child’s “playpen” because we never refer to a child’s playpen as a cage (even though the older wooden styles look like a cage) and she actually finds the words to be “a little offensive” and “harsh” terms for your pet bird’s home.

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How Bulk Re-Bagged Bird Food Can Make Your Bird Sick
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How Bulk Re-Bagged Bird Food Can Make Your Bird Sick

I was reading in a parrot-related forum recently about the great pricing a website had because it sold all its bird food in bulk. In other words not in factory-sealed bags with nitrogen injected to kill insect larvae.
 
Basically, the food gets shipped to you in a plastic bag. We see a lot of bulk bird food sold in pet shops with those fancy dispensers used to sell all sorts of bulk foods, nuts & candy.

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