Bacon (the budgie) In Our House – A Blue Bird of Paradise Finds Us
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Bacon (the budgie) In Our House – A Blue Bird of Paradise Finds Us

Editor’s note: We have quietly rehomed a number of large birds found by the Chicago Police and Fire Departments over the years. We found Popcorn, (a citizen calling to say a white bird was stuck in the bushes). We post pictures to Facebook and local neighborhood groups.

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How Are Feral Parrots Surviving Feral Cat Genocide?
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How Are Feral Parrots Surviving Feral Cat Genocide?

I’ll let this sink in – I call it “sanity” A follow up to:

Debunking the myth of feral cats devastating US songbird populations

3,700,000,000 birds (feral cats *by themselves* through simple math are killing an estimated 1.4-3.7 billion birds per year… )

(If you accept statistics with a plus or minus 110% statistical accuracy)

 

1 year = 8,760 hours = 422,374 birds being eaten by feral cats every hour 24/7

8,447 birds being eaten by a feral cat in each of the 50 states every hour 24/7

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My Bird/Your Bird – Break Up Decisions and Creating the Blended Family With Parrots
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My Bird/Your Bird – Break Up Decisions and Creating the Blended Family With Parrots

I started making my way across the earth in the middle of the last century.

I traveled terrestrially and airborne as my father Norman was a vagabond pilot – sure, I’d love to have a coffee and chat about that sometime. 

If you are a baby boomer you may remember probably what was one of the first chain stores – Woolworths 

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Ten Things to Consider Before Getting a First Bird
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Ten Things to Consider Before Getting a First Bird

or adding another parrot to your life

Taking care of a parrot is a lot of responsibility. Most of you already know this but a few may not.

Your friends that don’t own parrots probably look at yours and think they want one too, so please pass these points along to them so they can make a wise decision.

Whether you are buying your first parrot or your 10th, you need to think these things through as well.

Sharing life with a parrot is very much like living with a poorly mannered undisciplined 3 year old who will not grow up and go away to college.

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Questions Just Over the Bird Cage Wire week of 12/14/14
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Questions Just Over the Bird Cage Wire week of 12/14/14

Hi,
I’m looking for an old toy – I know this is a tricky one, it’s a wooden cube it came in a couple of different sizes. Unfortunately, I do not remember what co. made it. It was dowelled which connected to 4 different color square wood pieces with a colored large rope knot in the middle. 

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