Category: Species Specific - Page 42

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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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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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Why How Intelligent Are Birds and Parrots Will Make You Question Everything

Mitch Rezman
June 8, 2017
Bird Behavior / Foraging and Enrichment / Species Specific / Training Birds
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Recently Science magazine ran an article entitled “Parrots, songbirds pack more neurons into their forebrains than most mammals”.

Now some scientists are saying that birds are way more intelligent than we ever thought because they somehow counted the total number of forebrain neurons – with soup (we’ll get to that in a bit)!

The study, published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that 28 bird species have more neurons in their pallial telencephalons, the brain region responsible for higher level learning, than mammals with similar-sized brains.

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Lets Talk Sex and How Some Birds Give Away Their Sex by Feather Color

Mitch Rezman
June 2, 2017
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Feeding Pet Birds / Species Specific
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20% – 25% of parrots are sexually dimorphic meaning you can identify their sex by the color of the bird. Male eclectus are green – females are red.

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Help for an Excessively Screaming African Grey Parrot

Mitch Rezman
May 18, 2017
Bird Behavior / Feeding Pet Birds / Foraging and Enrichment / Habitats for caged birds / Species Specific
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How can you stop screaming–excessive (Question from Quora)

Screaming is never excessive for a bird – they are merely communicating, it’s what they do.

Before I can answer your question I need to know the species, age, sex, the diet and a picture of the cage set up if at all possible – thank you.

Hi Mitch,

Bubba is a 30 yr, old CAG (congo african grey). dna’d male on basically harrisons with nutriberries and healthy people food,.. I don’t know how to take a pix of his cage. 2x2x4 feet – 5 perches – all different materials. at least 5 toys I try to keep changed.

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How Long Should It Take for a Cockatiel to Grow Back Clipped Wing Feathers?

Mitch Rezman
April 27, 2017
Bird Behavior / Flight / Species Specific
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How long should it take for a Cockatiel to grow back clipped wing feathers?

I have a 7-month-old cockatiel, he’s super happy all the time and is “shedding” his down feathers constantly lately. The people we bought him from at about 2 to 3 months old were clipping his wings and he still hasn’t been able to fly properly. We keep him clean, happy, and healthy.

My answer

For the record, we are proponents of keeping birds flighted. But if a person loses a bird because it is flighted and they walked outside with the bird on their shoulder un-tethered – they are a dumbass.

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Are Cassowaries Smarter than Emus?

Catherine Tobsing
April 20, 2017
Biting Birds / Habitats for caged birds / Species Specific
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Cassowaries are rarities, very large flightless birds in the genus Casuarius native to the tropical forests of New Guinea, nearby islands and northeastern Australia.There are three extant species recognized today.

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Both of ours are tame and perform in our bird shows.

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What is the minimum cage size for a Green Cheek Conure?

What is the Minimum Cage Size for a Green Cheek Conure?

Mitch Rezman
April 12, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Habitats for caged birds / Species Specific
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What is the minimum bird cage size for a Green Cheek Conure?

When we first bought a cage for our GCC (Green Cheek Conure) we decided a really big one was the best option. But now it’s hell to clean it, even once a week.

What is the minimum cage size for a GCC and what can I do to keep the cage cleaner?

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Cockatoos – Learning About a Few of the Species

Mitch Rezman
April 6, 2017
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Species Specific
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By request from one of our Facebook fans, Teresa – we will start off talking about the Goffin cockatoo. Known formally as the Tanimbar Corella. These adorable little birds are about 12 inches long from head to tail.

The males weigh about 300 g (about 10 oz) and the females weigh about 50 g less. Like many other cockatoos they have a crest they raise and lower on top of their head.

As Cockatoos go, this one is a quieter Cockatoo which makes it a terrific pet. You have to be careful what you do in front of these birds like opening the cage latch because they will watch it and mimic it rather quickly.

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