Bird Climbing Nets What Are They and Are They Good or Bad for My Bird?
Bird climbing nets – personally we think they are a great idea and we ship lots of them. We’ve been shipping them for years and people rave about them. If you’re looking for something that easily exercises and entertains your bird while providing enrichment a bird climbing it is for you we have no negative […]
How Not to Build Outdoor Aviaries for Large Macaw Parrots
Lil M. writes, We want to build an outside aviary for our macaw. I would like to have a secure structure, safe from predators. Our location will be Clarksville, TN. I’m looking at ideas online but thought perhaps asking an authority on the subject would be the best way to start researching.
Bird Cage Dish for Older Cage Issues
Find all our birdcage crocks & dishes here I ordered these dishes for my cage using the dimensions you listed on your website which are #01 dish measures 5″ across the top including lip. (4 1/2″ not including lip) 3″ tall. When I received these dishes I checked them and they do not fit my […]
Bird Cage Lighting Need Not Be So Complicated
Attn. Mitch Rezman Fluorescent lights. The recent post here on Vit. D led me to more research. It appears most if not all of the Windy City Full Spectrum lights have simple magnetic ballasts, producing visible flicker. This is proven for chickens and assumed for the likely better eyes of psittacines with their mainly flying […]
Running a Fowl of Copyright Law
I sell bird toys – on the face of it, it shouldn’t be that hard. Under the hood, it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. We’ve had a retail facility burnt to the ground. We’ve had another retail facility flood with sewer water because of improper plumbing practices.
I’m Going Crazy & Broke Feeding My Eclectus Parrot – Helllp
A little housekeeping This week at the Windy City Parrot where the sun never sets empire world headquarters, our two local wi-fi networks decided to freelance. In the digital world, you can not tolerate freelancing networks so we went out and got one of those transformers-looking routers with lots of menacing antennas and fired it […]
lotsa luminous lucent lustrous lovebird luvin’ videos
What do we know about lovebirds? Mainstream publications will tell you there are nine species of lovebirds but there have been so many mutations that’s hard to say. Lovebirds are primarily from the continent of Africa along with Poicephelus parrots and African Grey parrots – the grey-headed lovebird is native to Madagascar. One […]
Are Mini Macaws The “Second Bananas” Of Macaws?
A follow-up to The Ultimate List Of 43 Macaw Species With A Focus On Large Macaws Not a day goes by that we don’t get a call at the Birdie Boutique beginning with, “Hi, I have a Macaw”, which for us always begs the question “What kind of Macaw”?
The Greenwing Macaw Blue Front Amazon Rescue Caper Part 2/2 – Homecoming
Paco likes to sleep hanging from his beak The tail starts with Paco (Blue-front Amazon bottom) & Quincy (Lilac crown Amazon top) at Robin’s home in Indiana. The Amazons aren’t lonely they have Coco and Danny, Sandy (from GREASE) Donny & Marie (as in Osmond) but Robin seized […]
Why and How the TSA Fondled My Underwear Before Flying on a Big Silver Bird
Let me state unequivocally. Unless there is some sort of geographical – emergency I will never fly commercially again. You can look at my LinkedIn profile and see that I spent my youth repossessing aircraft. I don’t mind flying – it’s the getting there commercially that’s annoying.