What Are The Most Difficult Parrots To Keep As Pets For Most Bird Owners
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What Are The Most Difficult Parrots To Keep As Pets For Most Bird Owners

What are the most difficult parrots to keep as pets for most bird owners?

First a little housekeeping.

When we talk about species of birds, it’s important to be specific.

To say that “cockatoos are needy”  would be inaccurate.

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A Better Bird Ep 15 Migrating Recent Ringneck Rescue To New Home Bird Cage – Video
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A Better Bird Ep 15 Migrating Recent Ringneck Rescue To New Home Bird Cage – Video

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I can’t count the number of times people inquire about the best way to migrate a bird from an older cage to a new birdcage.

 

The first thing I like to remind people is that the more you provide change for your bird the more your bird is likely to accept change.

 

A bird who has had the same bird cage, toys and accessories for 10 or 20 years is a phobic bird that you created.

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A Better Bird Ep 13 – How Bird Proof Is Your Home? Video
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A Better Bird Ep 13 – How Bird Proof Is Your Home? Video

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In about 24 months our household has gone from 0 to 9 birds.

Six budgies (2 males/4 females), a female Senegal (surgically sexed) and a male African ringneck (males have the ring).

I fondly call the budgies my little hooligans who have their own cage as does Peaches our 9 year old female Senegal and Keto the newest member to our family, the 17-year-old male African ringneck.

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A Better Bird Ep 12 Migrating 6 Budgies From Cage To Aviary – Video
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A Better Bird Ep 12 Migrating 6 Budgies From Cage To Aviary – Video

I’ve often said the universe is too complex to be arbitrary.

We brought home a Prevue F040 birdcage for our six budgies, but once built we clearly felt it was too small.

It sat in our living room for about three weeks.

During that time we received a phone call and long story short we ended up rescuing a 17-year-old male African ringneck.

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What Should You Consider Before Getting a Pet Bird?
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What Should You Consider Before Getting a Pet Bird?

Children are loud, messy, and time-consuming,  but every family has 2.6 of them (Pew Research).

I probably spend less time cleaning up after my eight birds in three birdcages than most moms cleaning up after 2 six-year-olds 

or a single toddler

To say that all birds are time-consuming is an unsupported blanket statement.

We have a Senegal parrot and an African ringneck.

Neither is very noisy.

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Out Door Aviary Advice For A Ringneck

This question comes from the Google My Business community.

 

Unfortunately Google sets character limitations in the answer box and I felt compelled to provide a well rounded solution.

 

Thus you found your way to our excellent blog on nothing but pet birds and captive bird care.

 

kenneth s

 

good evening Mitch, we recently put up an outside aviary for our rescue Indian ring neck.

 

we do not have regular screening up because we were afraid it would keep out the UV Light.

 

should we use that because of bugs, bees and mosquitos?

 

We need help

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Can My Daughter And I Co-Bond With An African Grey?
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Can My Daughter And I Co-Bond With An African Grey?

We don’t generally interact with mainstream bird rescue organizations.

The last bird club/rescue meeting I spoke at began with a police presence called by the current president trying to forcibly remove the former president, who wouldn’t leave.

The next 15 minutes resulted in parliamentary maneuvers so legal action could be brought against the former bird rescue president.

We’ve seen that a lot over the years.

Which is why we mainly work with private rescues and bird rescue initiatives.

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