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Your 60 Second List of Good and Bad Fruits for Birds
It’s summer and we all eat more fruit in the summer. Birds like fruit too, but………..
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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in birds.about.com, Patricia Sund a “Pet Birds Expert”, states the case that the word “cage” is brutal, antiquated and out of date.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.
The Rhinoceros Hornbill in nature.
Hornbills those Magnificent Soft Billed Winged Creatures
First, we took a look at soft-billed birds which lead to an exploration of the differences between softbills – hardbills – hookbills & waxbills.
Hornbills are softbills like Toucans but don’t get a lot of press or even cereal of their own.
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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.
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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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How Do I Know if My Bird Is Being Broody?
 If your bird is hiding in places like this
She’s probably being broody
Although these little nesting areas your bird finds make adorable photographs they should be avoided in order to help reduce the production of eggs if you’re finding this to be a problem. Especially if you have a mating pair.
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Is Organic Bird Food Really Better for My Bird?
First off, I love your site and am grateful to have found it. I like local shops, don’t shop Petco, and most pet stores don’t have a great bird section anyway.
I’m writing because I have a question about Bell, my quaker parrot. He squeaks. He didn’t used to, and it seems to be getting more pronounced. When he sleeps and sometimes when he eats – it just occurred to me that it must be a breathing thing. I should take him to the vet, maybe. (more…)
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Feather Plucking Parrots – a Questionnaire to Help Work Through the Problem
As you can imagine we get a lot of calls and emails about feather plucking problems. Because of this, we are the only website on the Internet to have a comprehensive feather plucking category that contains products that we know (based upon feedback from our 70,000 plus customers) are helpful in the reduction and/or the elimination of feather plucking. Many of the emails are quite detailed. Others will ask nothing more than “My bird is plucking what can I do”?
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Why Do Eclectus Parrot Moms Peck Their Male Chicks to Death?
Feathered factoid: Eclectus parrots represent about 20% of parrots that are sexually dimorphic meaning you can tell the sex of the bird by it’s color.
Eclectus boys are green, girls are red. Only male Indian Ringnecks – have the ring.
It’s like headlines ripped from supermarket check-out tabloids. (more…)
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Got Pigeon Milk – For Real?
Birds can have weird habits. I knew a Cherry-Headed Conure that loved to attack toes. Some birds will only eat food that has been through their water dish or will fall in love with a particular pair of shoes on your closet floor.
African Green Pigeons take weird habits to a new level. Pigeons in spite of not being mammals meaning I have no breasts are able to in fact produce milk. Pigeons generally incubate their eggs for about three weeks.
How Defense Wins Football Games and Saves Parrots
How Defense Wins Football Games and Saves Parrots
Remember the letters E-B-F. All your birds emotions are built upon 3 activities.
Eating – Breeding – Fleeing
