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What Type of Macaw Makes the Best Pet for a Small Family?

Mitch Rezman
July 7, 2017
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Rescue / Biting Birds / Feeding Pet Birds / Habitats for caged birds / Parakeets / Species Specific
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Please don’t get discouraged because of one anecdotal story of stupidity. (See other Quora answers below) People die in car crashes every day but most of us still drive.

Here’s a little back story for you. The ancient Greeks kept parakeets. Not necessarily budgies because the Alexandrian parakeet got its name from Alexander the Great. As the story goes Alexander was gifted one of those around 327 BC

File under more money than brains. We all know how crazy the Romans were but not many people know that they would assign a slave to take care of the family bird which was usually a parrot of some sort.

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The Secret of Do Birds in Cages Suffer All Their Lives?

Mitch Rezman
July 5, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Lighting / Bird Rescue / Birds & Lighting
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I’ve often said the perfect size cage for a Green Wing Macaw is 30 acres. Many birds can and do suffer miserably in cages. There are ways we can offset the majority of the stress for our captive birds — but many of us do not.

Full transparency — I’m a companion to one Senegal parrot and four budgies. That in and of itself does not make me an expert. What makes me an expert in my 15 years of interacting with tens of thousands of captive bird owners while operating the Windy City Parrot website

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5 Best Practices For When Someone Gives You a Pair of Parakeets

Hi, a year ago someone gave me a pair of parakeets. I gave them a big cage, and tried working with them, individually. They are almost 4 years old, and are happy to see me, but not interested in being held, or scratched, and that is ok.

I have an African grey parrot, who has lived with me for 26 years, she interacts with me and my family and is really pretty funny and wicked smart.

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Do Power Lines Affect the Health of Birds, When They Perch on Them?

Mitch Rezman
March 15, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Rescue / Birds & Lighting / Feeding Pet Birds / Raptors & Falconry / Species Specific
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Questions about birds I answered on Quora the week of 3/13/17.

Do power lines affect the health of birds, when they perch on them?

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Wondering if You Can Guide Me on Care of my Umbrella Cockatoo.

Mitch Rezman
January 25, 2017
Bird Rescue / Bird Supplies Info / Birds & Lighting / Feather Plucking / Feeding Pet Birds / Plucking/Screaming
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Wondering if you can guide me with the care of my umbrella. Her vet is away on sick leave for a few months. I am her third owner.

I live in a two-room 35 ft camper trailer with six dogs and the bird. She likes to be around them – in her cage – and when they get treats she expects ( and gets) her own. They are her flock.

She has been a feather shredder since long before she came to me, about three years ago. She is also very indifferent to food. Her owner before me cared for her well and tried her hardest to get her to fresh fruit and veg. Her primary diet is Zupreem fruit blend, though her specific preference are the pink pieces. But she isn’t even very interested in eating.

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Pepper Our Two and a Half Year Old African Red-bellied Parrot

Catherine,

Sorry for the delay. I had full intentions of providing you with my take on the African Red Bellied parrot several weeks ago and life got in the way. 🙂
First of all, let me introduce Pepper our two-and-a-half-year-old ARB. I am emphasizing two year old because we are going through what I can only hope is the terrible 2s stage and not a lifelong trait with him.

For a bit of history, this is not my first rodeo. I was very active in owning, caring, training, and taming parrots many years ago. I go back to the days when most were wild caught birds that required significant patience and attention.

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Your 2017 Pet Bird Keepers To-Do List

Mitch Rezman
December 29, 2016
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Rescue / Bird Supplies Info / Training Birds
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My bird(s) will get proper lighting using a timer to provide an accurate light cycle

I will work with my flighted bird to make him or her a better flyer. If my bird is not flighted I will consider allowing the wings to grow out for a more confident bird that screams less. (more…)

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Clicker Training Videos for Birds – From Tricks to Flight

Mitch Rezman
November 9, 2016
Bird Behavior / Bird Rescue / Bird Supplies Info / Biting Birds / Training Birds
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It is opaque to me as to why caged bird keepers refuse to embrace clicker training. We spend hundreds (thousands) of dollars on birds, equipment, toys, accessories, and food (thank…

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Scientists Fundraise for Conures

Mitch Rezman
November 7, 2016
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Rescue / Species Specific / The Traveling Bird / Wild Bird & Wildlife
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Did you know the sun conure may be facing extinction in the wild, and you can help? There is a real need for more surveys to establish their status in nature. The 2014 estimates published on the IUCN database are between 1,000 and 1,499 mature birds. Some of the last known sun conures live in Guyana, a country with a small human population and a lot of forest and savannah grasslands.

The IUCN page mentions that the trade in wild conures is “ongoing” because “due to the ease with which birds can be attracted to bait (e.g. corn) and the large distances they will travel, it is easy to trap all the individuals in an area.” Quoted from Jamie Gilardi.

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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
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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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What Type of Macaw Makes the Best Pet for a Small Family?

The Secret of Do Birds in Cages Suffer All Their Lives?

5 Best Practices For When Someone Gives You a Pair of Parakeets

Do Power Lines Affect the Health of Birds, When They Perch on Them?

Wondering if You Can Guide Me on Care of my Umbrella Cockatoo.

Pepper Our Two and a Half Year Old African Red-bellied Parrot

Your 2017 Pet Bird Keepers To-Do List

Clicker Training Videos for Birds – From Tricks to Flight

Scientists Fundraise for Conures

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

Since 1993Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free$7 Ships Small

Toll Free877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,Lowell, IN 46356 USA

Since 1993
Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free
$7 Ships Small

Toll Free
877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,
Lowell, IN 46356 USA