Just a heads up that if you live in the US and use / want to use supplemental UV lighting for your birds, you can get the super duper Arcadia bulbs from lightyourreptiles.com/ (scroll down for the bird-specific bulbs). The Arcadia brand was only available in Europe until this company started importing them recently. Arcadia has a 12% UVB output, ( Read more... )

Africa’s Most Endangered Parrot Revealed Like Never Before

Trigger Warning: includes photos of dead, defeathered, and sick parrots.

Summary: The Cape Parrot is Africa's most endangered parrot species with only around 1,000 left in the wild. There are two main sources of the deaths: reduced food sources due to human deforestation (which a group ( Read more... )

In case you're interested, CNN has a nice article listing the "dirty dozen" fruits and vegetables that tend to retain more pesticides due to their skin texture (and therefore you definitely should buy organic if you're going to give them to your beebs), and the "clean fifteen" that don't retain as much pesticide (and therefore you are more likely ( Read more... )

So, forever ago I joined the birdtricks.com mailing list, just out of curiosity and wanted to see what they were up to. I get emails pretty often, but there are some that are just so...dumb. Not to mention dangerous ( Read more... )

Anybody here have experience with the Poquito Avian Hotel? Here's the product listings on Windy City Parrot and Doctors Foster and Smith. Its dimensions are given differently on the two sites as either (approximately) 14x18x18", or 14x14x18", bar spacing 1/2", powder coated. The cage is described as being "not for car travel" and I'd like to ( Read more... )

Discovery News: Dinosaur Looked, Behaved Like a Parrot!

I'm wondering if anyone in this community has taken the American Federation of Aviculture, Inc.'s "Fundamentals of Aviculture" course and was recognized as an AFA Certified Aviculturists, Level I? I'm considering taking this course. It's $75 for non-members, which would be me. I don't know much about this federation, and don't know if getting this ( Read more... )

I found this Japanese blog that has the cutest little GIF's of birds!!
I thought you guys might enjoy them too XD

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/p_piyo59/folder/944628.html
There's 7 pages total.

seriously.cute!( sample CUTE under cut )

Original post is here: http://community.livejournal.com/parrot_lovers/4072073.html

I emailed Sally Blanchard and asked her about her relationship with them. She replied, and I got permission to post it, and so here it is.

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You know, I've respected Sally Blanchard as a writer, and advocator of the wellfare of parrots, etc for the past 7 years. I've subscribed to her magazine, and her yahoogroup, and corresponded with her on several occasions. I find her to be a bit... touchy, and defensive at times, but well intentioned and knowledgable, even if I disagree with her on ( Read more... )