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How Winter Places Stress On Pet Birds

Mitch Rezman
October 17, 2018
Bird & Parrot Care / Feather Plucking / Feeding Pet Birds / Surviving Disaster / Website Shopping
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Birds have a highly developed sense of light. In humans, we perceive light through our eyes.

Our feathered friends have an additional way of interpreting light conditions, a special gland that surrounds the eye. Read more on this

As days get shorter and the temperature falls, we want you to be aware of some issues the changing weather may have on your birds.

In the wild, animals rely on the cycling of the sun, and the seasons to adjust their biological clocks and metabolism. It is the sun, and changes in the quality of light and length of the day which set the stage for breeding, migration, molting, and daily behavior patterns.

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

Mitch Rezman
October 12, 2018
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Birds & Lighting / Veterinarian Related
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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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Can You Address Feeding And Care For Larger M2s (Moluccan Cockatoos)?

Mitch Rezman
September 20, 2018
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Lighting / Bird Nutrition / Biting Birds / Cockatoo
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Think of a bunch of garden hoses banded together arbitrarily shooting water out one or the other.

As opposed to a “firehose” of information.

Now you know what fielding questions about captive bird care looks like to us.

We don’t know where it’s going to come from – Disqus, our blog, one of three ways you can contact us directly on the website or email.

Just organizing the questions is a task in-and-of-itself.

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He Duct Taped His Cockatoos Feet To The Floor

Mitch Rezman
September 20, 2018
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Cockatoo
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The following was part of an answer to the following Quora question.

“What would be a bird’s reaction if we tied a helium balloon to their legs (that would make them float)? What about a bat? How would they adapt? QUESTION DETAILS IN COMMENTS”

At some point in the very short response I saw these words

“Someday, I’ll tell you about the time I duct taped his feet to the kitchen floor to prevent him from chasing mine”.

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

Mitch Rezman
September 9, 2018
A Better Bird / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Bird Nutrition / Bird Rescue / Birds & Lighting / Keto the African ringneck / Parakeets / Peaches the Senegal Parrot
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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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What Should You Consider Before Getting a Pet Bird?

Mitch Rezman
September 5, 2018
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Exercising birds / Feeding Pet Birds / Foraging and Enrichment / Habitats for caged birds / Parakeets / Peaches the Senegal Parrot / Training Birds
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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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Can My Daughter And I Co-Bond With An African Grey?

Mitch Rezman
August 26, 2018
African grey / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Pellet conversion tips
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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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