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We all can admit to falling into the usual automatic mode of things we’d do while aimed at seeking good outcomes, and birds are not spared by the same attitude in the course of their daily activities like drinking and in some cases, even procreation do crane behavior necessary for their happy comfortable life.
Ensuring that we don’t confuse our normal daily manner of managing with the same approach that we would use with birds.
The differences between the two are vast. Today, we’d learn about both the regular and stress-induced normalcy that they go through before understanding how we could introduce fluids to them.
Water Can Aspirate The Wrong Way
Birds have an airway opening in their mouths that reacts differently when stressed or not.
This opening leads to the trachea, opening and closing mechanism.
This is an anatomical difference. It is fatal that at bedtime we hear the instance of a novice parrot owner who felt that introducing water using a dropper was a good idea.
Birds have a way of drinking that has worked for them. The way in which they have been able to keep water from entering the opening in the trachea is often mysterious to observers.
The opening from the mouth leads into their trachea, and every time they are stressed or feeling unwell the trachea halves open and closes rapidly.
If a human being fills a dropper to add water to the bird’s mouth since they assume the bird needs to drink you risk the bird aspirates incredibly sensitive birds and might die from the tiniest drop of the water falling.
It is dangerous to a person who tries to drip water on them because birds drink water by dipping their beaks into it, taking water inside, tilting their heads back, and letting the water slide smoothly down their throats. This way, the airways are never touched at the same time.
The danger is that a bird never sees it as it will believe the needle stick is a pain, along with all the other risks mentioned above: when a drop of water falls into the stomach’s trachea, it can cause choking or more, whereas if the bird is introduced to bacteria it might grow in huge numbers and releasing toxins everywhere which will again lead to its death or one of those hundreds of other things that come up which at the end will take the life away.
The bottom line
Our number one goal: is for bird owners who undoubtedly are not aware of the dangers of adding water abnormally to a bird that it is never fine. This could be a first step to providing the bird with essential needs: water.
Written by Mitch Rezman and the Windy City Parrot Content Team
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