Hello!  I just joined this community.  The spotlight pretty much coincided with me finally, finally getting a parrot.  I'd owned parakeets for years, and at one point a pair of exhibitionist cockatiels.  I'd always pined after a parrot, though, and then found what I thought was a great deal but turned out to be a rescue, and now I find myself with ( Read more... )

So, as I said in my previous post, I've had Mizu for a few years, and got her when she was about 2 months old. (I think ( Read more... )

Hi there, I recently adopted a rainbow lorikeet and immediately (sad as it sounds) came to livejournal to learn more. I hope this post is okay, if it's not mods feel free to remove it ( 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... )

Kai has recently rediscovered the fact that she is, in fact, a bird.

Up until a few days ago, she was very hesitant to fly (or attempt to), due to a really severe wing clip. Whoever clipped her really didn't know what they were doing. Instead of taking them from the wingtip and cutting in, (or instead of cutting the feather at the base of the ( Read more... )

The past couple weeks have been hell trying to train Stormy. He was completely use to my face and would cuddle up under my chin and let me give him kisses. He would even let me kiss him will he was playing on the desk. But when it came to my hands he was terrified of them. If I even put them near him without a treat in them he would run to his ( Read more... )

As we all know, greys have a reputation for being "good talkers," and for using words purposefully. As I have an African Grey in my future (September), I've been thinking about ways I'll go about training my bird to understand a variety of commands. So far, I'm planning on using Dr. Irene Pepperberg's "model/rival" method (hey, we just had a post ( Read more... )

After much thought about Buddy's situation and me not being home much due to being at boyfriend's house: I bought Buddy a smaller cage that I am going to get him used to so he can go with me to my BF's house. I have the cage on the floor near the couch right now with some toys on and in it. I am going to slowly start putting treats on and in the ( Read more... )

Hiii!!

I just have some excitement to share! My little Huckleberry has said his first sentence!! "Do you want to come out?" obviously i say it alot to him!! he doesnt even say hello or anything like that yet! haah.

( He's growing up so fast! have a look! )

Since it's such a beautiful day out, and since Schrödinger is going to go be a show and tell bird this week for a class, we figured it was probably time to make sure we really could put his harness on. :)

( And, y'know, take pictures. )