Holy Crap We Just Rescued 2 More Birds
File under: riding the cosmic coaster About a month after Popcorn had passed Catherine and I made big plans to get a new bird after we launched the new Windy…
File under: riding the cosmic coaster About a month after Popcorn had passed Catherine and I made big plans to get a new bird after we launched the new Windy…
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.
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
Paco likes to sleep hanging from his beak The tail starts with Paco (Blue-front Amazon bottom) & Quincy (Lilac crown Amazon top) at Robin's home in Indiana. …
Popcorn update: Catherine, me and our avian vet Dr. Byron decided to bypass the brooding period. We just exposed Popcorn to 72 hours of light to help (hoping) shut…
Mj Bryant ([email protected]) wrote:Âto redmagnetÂHi Mj, I’m sorry to hear you are considering giving up a cockatoo to a rescue. ?Do you mind if I ask why you are doing this? Perhaps it is a problem we could help you solve if it is due to behavior.Â
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.Â
If you are a baby boomer you may remember probably what was one of the first chain stores – WoolworthsÂ
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.
From a Facebook threadÂWindyCityParrot.com Hi as I don’t have a Facebook page I would like to comment on your article about keeping parrots in the uk.It is true that some people are horrified that I have five parrots. I have an orange winged amazon an African grey,a greenwing macaw, a Ducorps cockatoo, and a galah.Â