Aviator Bird Flight Harness Details
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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.

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How Does Winter Stress Your Bird?
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How Does Winter Stress Your Bird?

Most birds that we find in our homes come from the equatorial regions of Earth. There’s a large difference in temperature between the Midwestern United States and South American rain forest. Aside from maintaining your bird’s optimal physical health during the winter, climate changes are counterintuitive to your bird and can be stressful.

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Bird Nail Trimming Refresher
Bird Nail Trimming Refresher

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.

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4 Bird Keeping Clean Ideas
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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.

 This means the stray food, the poop, and other contaminants which carry bacteria get ingested by your bird. One of the easiest ways to overcome these problems is to install a Lixit water bottle in your birdcage.

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Parrotlet Care and Feeding Info
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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.

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Two New Birds
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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” 

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Biography of Mark Hagen
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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.

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Researching Parrots as Pets ~ Parrot Rescue by Rodney Foster
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Researching Parrots as Pets ~ Parrot Rescue by Rodney Foster

I would like to use this article to encourage people on the importance of researching all the information they can get to include reading, visiting zoo’s, and even try and find someone that has a Exotic pet they are thinking of getting. In the last few years exotic pets have been taking a rise in popularity, But at the same time exotic pet deaths and abuse are high also because exotic animals do not do well in our daily life style and for the lack of people being informed of what they are getting into before buying a exotic pet.

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