What Birds Teach Us About Life Like the Mystery of Murmurations
What Birds Teach Us About Life Like the Mystery of Murmurations

What Birds Teach Us About Life Like the Mystery of Murmurations

When starting a business as well as running it, general practices dictate that you should have a business plan.

I have two problems with business plans.

The first is Murphy’s Law, which roughly states, “Anything that can go wrong, will.”

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A Better Bird Video Series For Training Birds And Their Humans
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A Better Bird Video Series For Training Birds And Their Humans

Just as the name implies, this is a series of quick and easy ways to help your birds stay happy and healthy around the clock.

This is a series of short but incisive ideas you can apply today bringing you closer to bird care nirvana.

The number of things necessary to provide foraging enrichment for your birds can be found in a series of quick and simple ideas.

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Why Birds Should Fear Humans Not Feral Cats
Close-up of young beard man with his pet Quaker parrot on shoulder at home. Monk parakeet is looking at camera with curiosity.

Why Birds Should Fear Humans Not Feral Cats

For those of you new to the discussion I recently reposted an evergreen article about the effect of feral cats on earth’s bird population.

This is a question from one of our nearest and dearest customers along with my response.

Hi Mitch. You know me. 

I’m a long-time customer of your store and will continue to be as long as the three of us are still alive on this earth. 

So it is with respect and affection that I tell you that it is irresponsible of you to deny that feral cats are harming wild birds. 

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Windy City Parrot Defines Small And Medium Size Species Of Pet Birds

Small species pet birds

Birds we classify as “Smaller” species 

FYI  There’s something like 100 species of Conures. Conures need to be subdivided into small, medium & large (which is on our to-do list)


Green cheek conures weigh 64 grams (cockatiels are about 100 grams – Patagonian conures weight about 280 grams, about the size of a Timneh African grey.

Don’t think for a minute conures can be classified into one size category

Large Canaries

Gibber Canary

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