Category: Bird Behavior - Page 41

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More About the Importance of Lighting for Captive Birds

Mitch Rezman
March 30, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Birds & Lighting
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Birdcage lighting for 3 parrots

Hi Mitch,

I am fairly new to reading your blog, so I hope I am not asking questions that are too redundant. I have three birds – an almost 4-year-old male Bodini Amazon, a 2-year-old male Blue-headed Pionus, and a feisty little female Parrotlet. I have two questions really.

First, I would like to know if what I am currently doing is adequate or not. My birds have their own room where their cages are. The room is furnished with a fountain, a tree, hanging toys, etc. – basically a parrot playground. There is only one overhead light in the room that is just an LED daylight bulb.

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My Ringneck Parakeets Are Biting Me One Day After I Bought Them – Help

Mitch Rezman
March 23, 2017
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Biting Birds / Species Specific
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You may have noticed the “live help” tab at the bottom of the site coming on now and then: Here’s a “fly on the wall” look

Chatting with Guest (Egypt)

Mitch: Hello, how can I help?

Visitor: I brought 2 Indian parrots 6 months old yesterday.

Visitor: Yesterday they were nice but today they tend to bite so hard.

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Do Power Lines Affect the Health of Birds, When They Perch on Them?

Mitch Rezman
March 15, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Rescue / Birds & Lighting / Feeding Pet Birds / Raptors & Falconry / Species Specific
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Questions about birds I answered on Quora the week of 3/13/17.

Do power lines affect the health of birds, when they perch on them?

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How Can You Compare the Personalities of an African Grey and a Macaw?

Mitch Rezman
March 9, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Species Specific
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That is not really a fair question. The personality of a captive bird is determined by many factors and the environment that humans provide for them.

The bigger question is are we seeing the paratroop personality or does being a captain of birds change everything? In other words, would a bird be different in the wild than in captivity?

There is no single event, procedure, or training apparatus that will cause a bird to act like this or that, be an uncontrollable screamer, feather self-mutilation, or toe-tapper (a neurological issue in some Eclectus parrots).

Most people fail in raising captive birds because they don’t “speak bird”. It is essential to look at a pet bird holistically because every component of their life impacts their behavior.

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Birds Can Be Difficult When Trying New Foods

Mitch Rezman
March 2, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Feeding Pet Birds / Foraging and Enrichment
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Dear Nora How can you get your parrot to eat pellets? Birds can be difficult when trying new foods, I am reaching out to the company for their suggestions on…

5 Ways to Reduce Hormonal Bird Behavior Before You See the Avian Vet

Mitch Rezman
March 2, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Birds & Lighting / Biting Birds / Feather Plucking / Feeding Pet Birds / Foraging and Enrichment / Plucking/Screaming / Veterinarian Related
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Hypothetical – a 21st-century genie sits down next to you on a park bench. He looks pretty normal and explains that the whole genie thing has evolved along with modern society.

The dapper young lad named Gene (really?) goes on to say;

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These 5 Opera Singing Amazon Parrot Videos May Worry Pavarati

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So I Have Left is This Crazy 28 Year Old African Gray

Dear Theresa

Your bird passed today? Oh my. I am so sorry to hear this. It is never easy to lose a pet, they are so much a part of the family. You have our deepest sympathies.

Theresa replied

I’m a bit at a loss. We’ve had her for twenty-five years. With the exception of some arthritis in her foot, she’s been healthy as can be. Just back from a vet check about a month ago…Good eater always eating the things good for her…Saturday I woke up to uncover her cage only to find she’s thrown up a cooked food I got from parrot island. It was a pea soup blend.

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When Sun Conures Attack!

Mitch Rezman
February 9, 2017
Bird Behavior / Biting Birds / Foraging and Enrichment / Species Specific
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Good morning and thanks for your time,

I enjoy reading your newsletters every Sunday, and I just knew yesterday, Sunday, I had to contact you. In short, my sweet female, 1.5 year old, sun conure decided to attack her sitter yesterday when she entered our home. Here is the scenario:

We had three other people present whom she

ignored.
The Super Bowl was on. The constant annoying cheering of the tv fans.

Now, she did not attack her right away. Perhaps it was not intended to be attack mode. Once the sitter passed me and my bird Sofia, Sofia immediately flew towards her, the sitter, not expecting it, flailed her arms.

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Why 4 Roommates 2 Feathered and 2 Humans Need to Work Things Out.

Mitch Rezman
January 25, 2017
Bird Behavior / Biting Birds / Species Specific
6 Comments

Jan 9, 6:36pm

Hello, I have two Caiques. The first we have had for 6 years and is sweet mostly. The second, we introduced about 2 years ago. At first, the two about killed each other, but now they are friends.

However, the second caique does have an issue with wanting to be super nice to me and then all of the sudden out for blood. It goes for fingers, almost always. I am fairly sure it had a bad childhood and feel awful for it. It has some great times, but then sometimes will revert and attack. It goes in phases.

I am curious if you have any ideas of how to break this? Currently, to hold the bird or get it, most times I need to have a towel, which it is so smart to hold it’s wings out so I cannot wrap it up. It flips out from the towel also so I cannot grab it, always going for fingers and biting. Thank you for any information! Sometimes I’m at my wits end with this bird, but have been trying and trying to make it have a great life.

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More About the Importance of Lighting for Captive Birds

My Ringneck Parakeets Are Biting Me One Day After I Bought Them – Help

Do Power Lines Affect the Health of Birds, When They Perch on Them?

How Can You Compare the Personalities of an African Grey and a Macaw?

Birds Can Be Difficult When Trying New Foods

These 5 Opera Singing Amazon Parrot Videos May Worry Pavarati

So I Have Left is This Crazy 28 Year Old African Gray

When Sun Conures Attack!

Good morning and thanks for your time,

Why 4 Roommates 2 Feathered and 2 Humans Need to Work Things Out.

Jan 9, 6:36pm

Since 1993Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free$7 Ships Small

Toll Free877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,Lowell, IN 46356 USA

Good morning and thanks for your time,

Since 1993
Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free
$7 Ships Small

Toll Free
877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,
Lowell, IN 46356 USA