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Is Winter Stressing Your Bird Out?

Mitch Rezman
November 1, 2016
Bird & Parrot Care / Feather Plucking / Feeding Exotic Birds / Surviving Disaster / Website Shopping
2 Comments

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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Does the Plethora of Parrot Perches Produce Puzzlement?

Mitch Rezman
October 27, 2016
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Supplies Info

We get a lot of inquiries about perches. We also get phone calls on a fairly regular basis that go something like this:

“Hi, I’d like to return the perch that I just got from you.”

“No problem why’s that, is it defective?”

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Joyce About Taking Birds Outdoors

Catherine Tobsing
October 27, 2016
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Supplies Info / Habitats for caged birds
5 Comments

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 12:54 PM UTC, Joyce wrote:

Hello,

We live in southern TX, and would like to take our Amazon outside since the weather is so nice this time of year. I will purchase a cage of course, but my concerns are what types of bugs and disease am I potentially going to expose her to? She will also be in a covered patio. How do I keep her safe?

Thank You,

Joyce

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Carl’s Severe Macaw – is It Plucking, Molting or Over-preening?

Catherine Tobsing
October 27, 2016
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Care / Feather Plucking / Plucking/Screaming / Species Specific
4 Comments

Why are those feathers on the cage floor? Is it plucking, molting, or over-preening?

We received an email from a subscriber of Sunday Brunch that I am sharing with you below:

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Classifications & Obfuscations Regarding Conure Parrots

Catherine Tobsing
October 25, 2016
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Species Specific
0 Comments

About two years ago, I spotted a bird in a pet store (large chain). On his glassed-in cage was the label “Sun Conure.”

I decided that I wanted a bird like that. First, I ordered a large cage from you; then I waited about 9 months for a bird to become available. During that time the label changed to “Fancy Conure” vice Sun Conure.

The bird I purchased, my friend “Conrad”, is identical in coloring and in temperament (as described in several references) to a Sun Conure. Since we haven’t mentioned any names of pet chains (so we aren’t subject to law suit!), can you offer any thoughts on the name change.

Crossbreed? Avoiding the endangered species controls? Has anyone else ever raised this question???

Sanford

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How Can I Get My Parakeets to Eat Something Other Than Seed?

Catherine Tobsing
October 25, 2016
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Supplies Info / Feeding Pet Birds / Pellet conversion tips
0 Comments

Birds that have been only given one food for all their lives are harder to convert to a better diet but it can be done with time and patience.

A wide flat dish with chopped veggies, mashed carrots, squash, and a big hunk of green romaine lettuce placed on the center of the bottom of their cage every day for a month should get them rolling. Sprinkle the plate with some sed, and take out their main dish for a few hours after placing the fresh food dish in the cage.

Here is just one option using bird bread to get them to eat pellets.

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Change Is Essential for Your Bird to Accept It

Mitch Rezman
October 21, 2016
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Senegal parrots
0 Comments

Editor’s note: you will read these words later in the post:

Hi Catherine. Peaches has always been in my small bird room with the cockatiels, lovebirds, Meyers, Quakers, conures, and a very skittish white-capped Pionus I adopted last year. It’s been a long road to get her to accept me. Peaches doesn’t like to be near (within 2 feet) other birds.

Otherwise she tolerates them so I am sure she is loving all the attention Mitch is giving her. She was out of her cage (24 X 22) morning and afternoon for a total of two hours. She also enjoyed being on the jungle gym in the kitchen area. I have never used a water bottle with her. She doesn’t throw food in her water. Since I am home all day. Water dishes get changed twice a day if needed.

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Don’t Tell Your Bird She’s Eating Pellets So She Can Eat Her Pellets

Mitch Rezman
October 21, 2016
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Rescue / Feeding Pet Birds / Peaches the Senegal Parrot
0 Comments

Bird food pellets developed in the late 20th century have been a definite boon to avian nutrition. They offer a fully engineered diet that can be life-sustaining for most birds over…

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Oh No Someone Has Stolen My Parrots! Sundance, Pepper and 19 Other Parrots: Missing!

Catherine Tobsing
October 20, 2016
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Rescue / Bird Supplies Info / Lost Birds / Uncategorized
0 Comments

My first medium sized parrot was a loving sun conure who spent all the years of her life with me. She chose me one day when I was in a pet shop when she was just weaned, about 8 weeks old.

Today I know I got her for the wrong reasons. I was fast learning a lot about my budgie Sydney and twice-found cockatiel Cocoa. After two cold winters in Denver, my husband and I were at last returning to Cape Canaveral for his job on the Space Shuttle. Before leaving Denver I said I wanted a bike for riding the beach and a parrot to ride with me. When SunDance picked me, little did I know she would have an absolute horror of bicycles. No matter how I worked with her, she never overcame this fear.

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Hurricane Matthew: Nora and Timmy Prepare for Worst, Hope for Best

It’s been a quiet summer as far as the Atlantic Ocean storms go — but now in early fall the hurricane season continues until the ocean water cools significantly. Now it looks as if the US East Coast, Florida especially, will be another target along the path of Hurricane Matthew, the strongest hurricane for the longest period of time in a decade.

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Is Winter Stressing Your Bird Out?

Does the Plethora of Parrot Perches Produce Puzzlement?

Joyce About Taking Birds Outdoors

Carl’s Severe Macaw – is It Plucking, Molting or Over-preening?

Classifications & Obfuscations Regarding Conure Parrots

How Can I Get My Parakeets to Eat Something Other Than Seed?

Change Is Essential for Your Bird to Accept It

Don’t Tell Your Bird She’s Eating Pellets So She Can Eat Her Pellets

Oh No Someone Has Stolen My Parrots! Sundance, Pepper and 19 Other Parrots: Missing!

Hurricane Matthew: Nora and Timmy Prepare for Worst, Hope for Best

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Since 1993
Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free
$7 Ships Small

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877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

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Lowell, IN 46356 USA