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I Want My Bird to Wear a Harness But My Bird Doesn’t Like It – What to Do?

• Mitch Rezman
• March 27, 2015
• Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior
• 0 Comments

 I'm having a heck of a time trying to decide. 1. Which size Aviator flight harness to purchase for my Meyers Parrot (weighs about 80 grams) for the record -…

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Has Wing Clipping Damaged Your Bird’s Feet?

• Mitch Rezman
• May 22, 2014
• Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Rescue / Flight
• 0 Comments

Lately, I have been villainized, accused of being self-righteous, and generally disdained by all the people who feel clipping their bird’s wings is the right thing to do.

So I proudly wear the Scarlet (Macaw) letter “F” (for Flighted) on my chest.

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Your Resume Has Bird Poop and Beak Bite Marks – You’re Hired!

• Mitch Rezman
• March 14, 2014
• Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info
• 0 Comments

In an effort to show you reasons we should be your bird supplies purveyor of choice, we feel it’s important that you know we offer expertise, answers and solutions to the endless problems associated with caged bird care. 

 

To that end having people on our team that can fulfill these needs is essential. So you’d think it would be easy to find someone to write relevant content keeping our website what we call “sticky”. We want you to come back.  

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My Parrot Has Started Screaming ALot. What Can I Do?

• Denise Wamsley
• March 13, 2014
• Bird Behavior / Bird Nutrition
• 0 Comments

Q: My parrot has started screaming. A lot. What can I do?

1.  Living with a companion parrot is very much like living with a mischievous child, isn’t it? And much like raising children, it’s a matter of catching your parrot doing something right, and not rewarding bad behaviour like problem screaming.

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Help – My Catalina Macaw Is Chewing Everything!

• Mitch Rezman
• January 26, 2014
• Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Foraging and Enrichment / Habitats for caged birds
• 0 Comments

I have ordered toys from you previously. To be quite honest, I have probably ordered at least one toy from every place I’ve found online. 

I have a 5 yr old Catalina Macaw that I have had since he was 6-1/2 weeks old. At 6 months old, he broke the bars of his first cage, then we got him a big “Kings Corner” Cage, and it didn’t take him long to learn how to open the latch on the door, so we have been duct-taping that for quite some time now. (more…)

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What Would It Be Like to Have a Large Parrot?

• Mitch Rezman
• July 22, 2013
• Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Supplies Info / Birds & Lighting / Foraging and Enrichment / Habitats for caged birds / Training Birds
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Try this:

1.WASTEFUL.. Buy $30 worth of groceries and throw $24 worth in the trash as soon as you arrive home. Do this several times a month. Parrots require fresh food in addition to pellets (not seeds) and are wasteful eaters. If you can’t afford the wastefulness of a parrot, you can’t afford the parrot. 

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How Do I Stop My Bird from Screaming?

• Mitch Rezman
• July 18, 2013
• Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Feather Plucking / Plucking/Screaming
• 0 Comments

Why does my bird scream?

Boy if we had THE answer we’d be writing this from our yacht. But of course, I have to weigh in here. What got me thinking about the subject of “why birds scream,” is some recent web surfing.

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Why Fans and Feathers Don’t Mix Even in the Cage

• Mitch Rezman
• June 4, 2013
• African grey / Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird Behavior / Bird Enviornments
• 0 Comments

 As summer slowly creeps back into our lives we find ourselves breaking out the box fans, reversing the direction on the ceiling fans, and putting air-conditioners back in the windows. Many people ask us how I do know if my bird’s comfortable temperature wise?

Simply stated – if you’re comfortable, you’re birds are comfortable.

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Why Patience is Essential When Introducing New Stuff to Your Bird

• Mitch Rezman
• May 31, 2013
• Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Rescue
• 0 Comments

As the weather is warming up not a day goes by when we don’t have somebody coming into the Birdie Boutique, e-mailing us or calling us to find out what size flight suit or harness their bird could wear.

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The Bird Cage Privacy Canopy

• Mitch Rezman
• April 25, 2013
• Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Feeding Pet Birds / Foraging and Enrichment
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Spaulding courtesy of Michelle Karras & the Polite Parrot

 

We talk about the 60/40 rule a lot. In the wild birds spend 60% of their time looking for food and 40% of their time trying not to be food.

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