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What Type of Macaw Makes the Best Pet for a Small Family?

Mitch Rezman
July 7, 2017
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Rescue / Biting Birds / Feeding Pet Birds / Habitats for caged birds / Parakeets / Species Specific
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Please don’t get discouraged because of one anecdotal story of stupidity. (See other Quora answers below) People die in car crashes every day but most of us still drive.

Here’s a little back story for you. The ancient Greeks kept parakeets. Not necessarily budgies because the Alexandrian parakeet got its name from Alexander the Great. As the story goes Alexander was gifted one of those around 327 BC

File under more money than brains. We all know how crazy the Romans were but not many people know that they would assign a slave to take care of the family bird which was usually a parrot of some sort.

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Do Hormones Control This Amazons Seasonal Regurgitation?

Mitch Rezman
June 26, 2017
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Lighting / Feather Plucking / Foraging and Enrichment / Senior Birds / Veterinarian Related
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Dear Mitch, Catherine, and associates,

First thank you for the opportunity to contact you about my parrot, who’s a BF Amazon, named “Dollar.” I wish to add, I adopted him at 6 yrs old, and he wouldn’t let me call him any other name than what it had been.

So, he’s a fabulously happy birdie, but several years in a row around this time of year, he begins to regurgitate and swallow, over and over again. He holds the top of a bell and raises and lowers his head like an oil well, only really fast.
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Lets Talk Sex and How Some Birds Give Away Their Sex by Feather Color

Mitch Rezman
June 2, 2017
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Feeding Pet Birds / Species Specific
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20% – 25% of parrots are sexually dimorphic meaning you can identify their sex by the color of the bird. Male eclectus are green – females are red.

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At What Age Do Parrots Fully Mature?

Mitch Rezman
April 12, 2017
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Senior Birds
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Apologies in advance, I’ll be stepping on some toes here. But first I will man up and say I don’t have a good answer, here’s why.

Captive bird keepers regardless of their avian resume cite all sorts of, “facts”. Certain species mature at this age, other species mature at another age.

A question I ask rhetorically all the time is, “if we have all these facts at hand – THE right cage size – THE right perch size – that pellets are the ONLY food parrots should eat…

In that we know so much about birds with certainty, why has captive bird ownership in the US done nothing but decrease for the past 10 years while bird rescue populations have done nothing but rise?

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Cockatoos – Learning About a Few of the Species

Mitch Rezman
April 6, 2017
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Species Specific
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By request from one of our Facebook fans, Teresa – we will start off talking about the Goffin cockatoo. Known formally as the Tanimbar Corella. These adorable little birds are about 12 inches long from head to tail.

The males weigh about 300 g (about 10 oz) and the females weigh about 50 g less. Like many other cockatoos they have a crest they raise and lower on top of their head.

As Cockatoos go, this one is a quieter Cockatoo which makes it a terrific pet. You have to be careful what you do in front of these birds like opening the cage latch because they will watch it and mimic it rather quickly.

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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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Zoo Med 2008: Psittacine Medicine (2008)

Mitch Rezman
March 15, 2017
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Veterinarian Related
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Author: Gretchen Kaufman, DVM

OCW Zoological Medicine 2008
Psittacine Medicine (2008)
G. Kaufman, DVM
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University

1. Learning Objectives and Review

This section pulls together the main diseases and health issues of psittacines, representing the major group of birds seen in pet bird veterinary practice. Color coded topics indicate learning objectives that the student should become familiar with. Cases will be presented in class to illustrate these topics.

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Hormonal Changes Are Coming to Your Bird This Spring What’s Your Plan?

Mitch Rezman
January 13, 2017
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Birds & Lighting / Biting Birds
3 Comments

Americans have the ACLU – Captive birds in America have Windy City Parrot.

Part of a call from Hawaii at the Birdie Boutique

“I suggest72 hours of constant light, meaning the bird would be in its cage for 3 days, with the lights on”.

Cage birdkeepers response “she’ll never go for something like that“

My email response

As an advocate for pet birds, I wanted to follow up on your lovebird’s reproductive issues.

If a child is sick, he or she does not determine whether or not to accept care.

Although you state your bird would “have nothing to do with it” – she can easily be locked in a cage for three days for her own good so as to extend her life.

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Short Circuit From Love to Attack Behavior With My Rainbow Lory Recently

Mitch Rezman
November 9, 2016
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Biting Birds
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Connie S wrote:

I looked at the anatomy of a bird’s brain that you had in a recent email.

I would like to know more about the portion that says: Short Circuit from love to attack behavior!

That is happening with my rainbow lory recently.

He is 18 years old and has suddenly started attacking my hand when I reach to have him climb on my finger.

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Quickie Rundown on Cockatiel Care Chapter & Verse

Catherine Tobsing
November 8, 2016
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Species Specific
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Cockatiels are the smallest, actually a miniature Cockatoo, and is from Australia. The only bird more popular with caged bird keepers is a parakeet (budgie).

The Cockatiel is biologically classified as a genuine member of Cacatuidae because they share all of the Cockatoo family’s biological features. They are the only Cockatoo species which can sometimes reproduce by the time they are one year old.

The Cockatiel’s distinctive erectile crest expresses the animal’s state of being. The crest is dramatically vertical when the cockatiel is startled or excited, gently oblique in its neutral or relaxed state, and flattened close to the head when the animal is angry or defensive.

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What Type of Macaw Makes the Best Pet for a Small Family?

Lets Talk Sex and How Some Birds Give Away Their Sex by Feather Color

At What Age Do Parrots Fully Mature?

Cockatoos – Learning About a Few of the Species

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

Hormonal Changes Are Coming to Your Bird This Spring What’s Your Plan?

Short Circuit From Love to Attack Behavior With My Rainbow Lory Recently

Quickie Rundown on Cockatiel Care Chapter & Verse

Since 1993Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free$7 Ships Small

Toll Free877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,Lowell, IN 46356 USA

1. Learning Objectives and Review

Since 1993
Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free
$7 Ships Small

Toll Free
877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,
Lowell, IN 46356 USA