Category: Bird Lighting - Page 16

All birds get an extraordinarily large amount of information from sunlight both the visible spectrum that you and I can see and the invisible spectrum UVA/UVB light.

The light is sent to the pineal gland just behind the right eye where it tells the bird how long the day is and sets off melatonin cells that vibrate like micro metronomes enabling birds to tell the precise time of day – although they don’t know the day.

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12 YouTubers For Parrot Lovers You Need To Know

Mitch Rezman
May 11, 2018
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Bird Nutrition / Bird Rescue / Exercising birds / Feather Plucking / Feeding Pet Birds / Pellet conversion tips / The Traveling Bird / Training Birds / Wild Bird & Wildlife
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At first I thought to myself “this’ll be fun.”

Once I started the project it was a bit more difficult than I forecasted.

I originally started with 9 YouTube channels but some favorites needed to be included not simply based upon numbers.

For those who are not following on us Facebook or our YouTube channel, you’ll note that we are ramping up our use of Fid-eo to better communicate caged bird care.

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What Challenges Does Your Bird Face This Spring And Summer?

Mitch Rezman
May 4, 2018
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Feeding Pet Birds / Raptors & Falconry
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Linda F asks,

Hi, As spring approaches we look to protect furry as well as feathered friends. Any suggestions on Frontline and heart guard type products that are safe around parrots and toos (Cockatoos) when used on three little dogs?

Are the two above mentioned harmful when used on a dog that lives in the same house as a bird?

Thank you for all help I have received as my CAG (Congo African Grey, goffie (Goffin Cockatoo) learn to share our life together.

Would not have made it as smoothly this far without your good advice and Birdy Brunch. Thank you again. Linda,

Micha and Stewie

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The Challenge Of Rescuing An Older Injured Citron Cockatoo

Mitch Rezman
April 27, 2018
Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Cockatoo / Foraging and Enrichment / Handicap Birds / Veterinarian Related
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Thank you Constance R.

So often its important to hear from independent third parties who provide valuable feedback on our pet bird content.

Having been in the process of rescuing budgies, (current budgie census is at six) and spending a lot of time with Peaches, our Senegal parrot weighing in at about 115 g, our recent focus has been skewed towards smaller birds.

Constance has a Congo African Grey and an Umbrella Cockatoo and from her recommendations, this is going to be a cockatoo-lishish post.

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7 Budgie And Parakeet Questions Answered

Mitch Rezman
March 23, 2018
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Birds & Lighting / Biting Birds / Budgies / Habitats for caged birds / Veterinarian Related
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Question about Male Parakeet.

Every time I put my arm in the cage he attacks it, or he flies at me when I look in the cage.

My female looks depressed like she would rather he move out.

She used to be so happy.

I got her first, then him a couple of months after.

She would sing, and play with her toys.

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What Is a Good Summary About How It Is to Own Parrots (Macaws Specifically)?

Mitch Rezman
March 16, 2018
Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Bird Rescue / Birds & Lighting / Biting Birds / Feather Plucking / Feeding Pet Birds / Hormonal issues in birds / Parakeets / Peaches the Senegal Parrot / Plucking/Screaming / Veterinarian Related
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I don’t know that there’s enough storage space on the Quora servers to answer this.

I read that parrots are loud, noisy, and messy – a lot.

Then again so are children.

Let’s start with a top-level explanation.

Pet people in the disciple category will always react negatively towards the word own preferring instead to call it pet bird companionship.

In reality, birds are the most owned pets we can have.

We have to lock them up in a bird jail.

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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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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.

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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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Lowell, IN 46356 USA