Category: Bird Lighting - Page 16

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

Mitch Rezman
September 9, 2018
A Better Bird / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Budgies
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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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How Do I Pet My African Grey Parrot Without Getting Bit? I’m Really Scared.

Mitch Rezman
August 29, 2018
African grey / Bird Lighting / Biting Birds / Flight
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It’s a bird not a dog and doesn’t necessarily want to get pet.

Birds want to be preened.

From Quora Re: “Larry’s was more direct.

“He let himself get bitten.

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Out Door Aviary Advice For A Ringneck

Mitch Rezman
August 28, 2018
Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Bird Nutrition / Birds & Lighting / Indian Ringneck
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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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Is My Blue and Gold Macaw Biting Me Because of Displaced Anger?

Catherine Tobsing
August 14, 2018
Bird Behavior / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Biting Birds / Large macaws
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Nancy H wrote:

Dear Mitch and Catherine,

I own a Blue and Gold Macaw that I’ve had for 23 years, I love him dearly as he’s been, my little companion and roommate.

The problem is and I’m hoping you can help is that I’m not able to have my family or friends over because Bernard will literally take a tantrum screaming until I go in and get him and bring him out to see who’s there and when I go to bring him back to his cage, he bites me hard with displaced anger.

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One Of My African Greys Has Been Losing Feathers And It Is Getting Worse

Mitch Rezman
August 2, 2018
African grey / Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird Lighting / Bird Nutrition / Feather Plucking / Feeding Pet Birds
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My husband and I have two 14-year-old African grey parrots.

We bought them from a pet store that sold only parrots when they were chicks.

They seem very healthy – have good appetites, play, scream, etc.

However, one of the birds has been losing her feathers and it is getting worse.

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Can I Always Keep an African Gray Parrot in a Cage That is Placed in the Living Room?

Mitch Rezman
July 19, 2018
African grey / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Feather Plucking / Veterinarian Related
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I’m going to interpret this as a cage placement question.

The answer is not straightforward.

Parrots like privacy.

We talk a lot about the birdcage canopy effect of lining the top third of your bird’s cage with so many toys that you can not see the bird.

This gives them a sense of security in that they are not easily seen all the time.

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Should My Budgies Nap Early So They Can Stay Up Late?

Mitch Rezman
May 17, 2018
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Lighting
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The original question on Quora was: Can I leave the lights out for my budgies for a few hours in the early evening so they can take a nap?

They usually stay up until 2am with us?

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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Can You Address Feeding And Care For Larger M2s (Moluccan Cockatoos)?

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

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

How Do I Pet My African Grey Parrot Without Getting Bit? I’m Really Scared.

Out Door Aviary Advice For A Ringneck

Is My Blue and Gold Macaw Biting Me Because of Displaced Anger?

One Of My African Greys Has Been Losing Feathers And It Is Getting Worse

Should My Budgies Nap Early So They Can Stay Up Late?

12 YouTubers For Parrot Lovers You Need To Know

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Since 1993
Online in 2002

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$7 Ships Small

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877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

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Lowell, IN 46356 USA