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5 Answers To Questions Affecting A Parrots Domestic And Native Environments

Mitch Rezman
February 22, 2018
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Supplies Info / Veterinarian Related
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Hi Mitch. Just a comment of concern.

Clearly, I understand the need to know a bird’s sex but I’m also very concerned about this kit that anybody can buy, including many of the idiots out there that own birds.

Editors note: not my words

Do you really want to encourage all owners to pluck their birds feathers and cut their nails too short in order to get blood for testing?

There are experienced owners out there that could do it but there are probably many more out there who could cause an emergency and pain.

I have lived with 17 budgies but I would would still go to a vet for something like that.

I wish you would write a follow up to that article to inspire caution. The article makes me very nervous frankly.

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We’ve Learned How Much We Know and Don’t Know About Captive Bird Care After Taking the Exam

Find the Birdy IQ exam here if you haven’t taken it

Of the first 170 exams we had a 25% pass with 75% correct answers to 44 multiple and true/false questions

Please share your comments below terms if you think this helped or did not.

What else would you like to see?

more questions and/or explanations to the answers.

Please comment below

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Do My Budgies and Cockatiels Feel Bored or Depressed With Their Life of Captivity?

Mitch Rezman
January 25, 2018
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Budgies / Peaches the Senegal Parrot / Uncategorized
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Captivity is a relative term. I’m not relegated to my home but I still have to pay rent, go to work, pay taxes and perform all those duties that enable me to be a good neighbor and good citizen of the world.

If captivity is all that you know, is it really captivity? We have eight budgies, all rescues. We don’t have the background on any of them but we’ve kept them flighted, and recently started leaving the door open but most don’t ever leave the cage.

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Which Are the Most Affectionate Parrots and What Makes Them That Way?

Mitch Rezman
January 19, 2018
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Lighting / Biting Birds
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Just about any bird has the ability to be “affectionate” but we should define affectionate first.

In most cases it goes beyond the affection you would see between a parent and child.

At the end of the day, all thinking animals have one thing in mind and one purpose on earth which is to procreate. (more…)

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Make Bird Toys That Are Free – Cheap And Do It Yourself With These Videos

Catherine Tobsing
January 18, 2018
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Supplies Info / Foraging and Enrichment
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Bird toys are to the bird cage, what leaves are to the trees your bird would be living in in the wild.

It’s said birds live by the 60/40 rule. They spend 60% of their time looking for food and 40% of their time trying not to be food. Looking for food is called foraging.

A Cockatoo parrot living in the wild will fly as many as 100 miles in a day. The bird will have several dozen stops and regular feeding places. At each stop they’ll use their strong beak (and claws) to look for food.

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How Windy City Parrot Looks At Our Bird’s Holistically

Mitch Rezman
December 12, 2017
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Lighting / Foraging and Enrichment
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Pet food manufacturers as well as Internet “influencers” somehow associate the word “holistic” with “healthy” which indicates (to me) they clearly never read the definition of “holistic“.

ho·lis·tic – adjective

PHILOSOPHY – characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole.

Thus from this point forward, you will go forth and snigger the next time someone tries to sell you holistic anything.

When you interact with us,

whether it be here, on our website, social media, email, or any other form of communication, we try to introduce you to holistic bird health as a way of succeeding with captive bird care – meaning:

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How Do Amazon Parrots Use Light to Synthesize Vitamin D Having No Preening Gland? And Other Captive Amazon Care Questions

Mitch Rezman
December 1, 2017
Amazons / Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Feeding Pet Birds
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How do Amazon parrots use light to synthesize Vitamin D having no preening gland?

As I was curating this post on Amazon parrot questions it got me thinking about one of my favorite subjects, full spectrum lighting and the synthesis of vitamin D in birds.

Amazon parrots are relatively unique having no preening gland (along with doves, pigeons and Hyacinth macaws).

The uropygial aka preening gland oozes a slippery goo which a bird rubs its head and beak against. Then spreads this oil over its feathered body.

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Why Do Parrots Enjoy Mimicking?

Mitch Rezman
November 30, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Training Birds
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How do we know parrots enjoy anything? Another question recently asked on Quora was “what do parrots do for fun”?

We know parrots prefer “working” for food versus simply eating from overflowing bowls of parrot food.

We know correlation does not necessarily imply causation but can we infer that work & play are one and the same for a parrot?

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Improve the Relationship With Your Bird for $2

Mitch Rezman
November 16, 2017
Bird Behavior / Biting Birds / Training Birds
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Did you know statistically 96% of dogs turned into rescues have had no obedience training?

We haven’t found the statistics for birds and parrots but we suspect they are just as high.

Many people get infatuated with only the bird. The beautiful feathers, the possibility of speech and having a lifelong companion.

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Do Birds in Cages Suffer All Their Lives?

Mitch Rezman
October 20, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Lighting
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Do birds in cages suffer all their lives?

Define suffer? If you don’t know any better how do you know you are suffering?

As good as our intentions are met by many things, they don’t necessarily meet our bird’s “instinctual expectations”.

Define a “cage”. If you talking about a big metal thing with bars that sits in your family room? In reality the entire home is a (bird) cage because the bird is not allowed to leave it unless it’s in a smaller travel cage

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We’ve Learned How Much We Know and Don’t Know About Captive Bird Care After Taking the Exam

Do My Budgies and Cockatiels Feel Bored or Depressed With Their Life of Captivity?

Which Are the Most Affectionate Parrots and What Makes Them That Way?

Make Bird Toys That Are Free – Cheap And Do It Yourself With These Videos

How Windy City Parrot Looks At Our Bird’s Holistically

How Do Amazon Parrots Use Light to Synthesize Vitamin D Having No Preening Gland? And Other Captive Amazon Care Questions

Why Do Parrots Enjoy Mimicking?

Improve the Relationship With Your Bird for $2

Do Birds in Cages Suffer All Their Lives?

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