Patagonian Conures at the World’s Largest Parrot Colony
Hello,
I really enjoy your emails and am always interested in the things I learn, or the laughs I get.
One thing, they are never boring.
Sometimes I see something I’d love to share with my bird club.
Bird Tips from a Vet
TIPS FROM THE VET
ON SELECTING AND REARING BABY PARROTS
Louise Bauck, BSc, DVM, MVSc; Rolf C. Hagen Inc.
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Aviator Bird Flight Harness Details
The AVIATOR Harness uses advanced technology that is not used in any other style of pet bird harness.
The AVIATOR Harness is the only truly safe bird restraint system. Hundreds of thousands sold around the world attest to the safety and quality of The Aviator.
The only ESCAPE PROOF pet bird harness. Your bird can easily remove the leash and sometimes the harness from every other brand of harness.
Easily fits the largest pet birds and cockatiels as small as 75 grams.
How Does Winter Stress Your Bird?
Bird Nail Trimming Refresher
Because we wear less clothing in the summer months, short sleeves, tank tops and shorts we might be feeling our birds nails little more on our skin. This is a sure sign that it’s time to trim your birds nails.
The thought of this makes a lot of people hyperventilate because they’re usually faced with three choices.
Find someone to do it professionally. Take your bird to the vet which may incur a large bill for blood workup or a wellness check, or three, doing it yourself.
4 Bird Keeping Clean Ideas
We’re going to get started by talking about one of our favorite product lines Lixit. Do you really need a water bottle? Birds being the messy creatures that they are will poop in their water dishes regardless of placement.
Parrotlet Care and Feeding Info
Parrotlets – although appearing to be about the size of a parakeet, is not how they see themselves. They definitely have a big bird mentality and an abundance of energy. Because they had not been in captivity for all that long nobody really knows their average lifespan which is generally expected to be around 15 to 20 years, some say even 30. With proper care, these little birds can be quite durable pets.
In spite of their size these little birds possess all the intelligence and the attitude of the biggest of Macaws. Unlike the big Macaws, Parrotlets are easily suited for apartment dwellers as they cannot scream and are actually one of the quieter parrots you can have.
Two New Birds
Kriselle and I had chatted on the phone a month ago.
She shared her plans to bring two baby birds into her home.
She was taking a year off from work and felt it would give her the opportunity to make the right home for the birds.
I’ll make a note here that I recommend she start leaving the house about 3 months before returning to work starting with shorter periods but ramping up to full 8 – 10 hour days to help the birds adjust to a “prolonged absence”Â
Biography of Mark Hagen
BIOGRAPHY OF MARK HAGEN
Mark Hagen is the Research Director at The Hagen Avicultural Research Institute (HARI). He has a Master of Agriculture from the University of Guelph and specialized in Psittacine Aviculture.
In his Bachelor of Science, Mark concentrated on nutrition and zoology and attended a semester at the University of California, Davis taking courses in cage bird medicine, nutrition and avian science. It has been more than ten years that he has been studying companion birds; writing his first paper on parrot breeding in 1983 and establishing HARI in 1985.
