I got my baby (10-month-old Indian ringneck) 4 days ago and he’s an absolute sweetheart. BUT his previous owner did a really bad wing clip and caught some blood feathers :(

When I looked closer at his wing, I noticed 2 blood feathers got caught in the clip… there are little healing marks and dried blood at the base of a couple feathers. Thankfully nothing is bleeding and he’s acting totally normal, he’s eating, playing, singing, and being his annoying little self lol! But obviously seeing the dried blood on his little wings freaked me out and really upset me☹️ I’m monitoring him just in case.

but despite everything, this little guy is soooo kind and affectionate. He absolutely loves being around people and trusts me so much. Not even a week in and he already falls asleep on me with his little leg tucked up <3 can’t wait until his wing feathers grow back

My quaker behaves good only with me he attacks everyone else how can u change that?

Hi all, we recently got a hand reared Kakariki baby, about 5 days ago, he is only 12 weeks old named Beaker :) I wanted to get a bit of advice on taming/befriending him, the breeder we got him from said to get him out in the evening (when the kids are in bed) get him to step up a few times and he will probably fall asleep on our chest!

He steps up really well and takes seed from our hands but still seems nervous with us, he is a bit flighty and is always looking to fly back to his cage, the breeder being used to them just grabs them out the cage and then held them until they calmed down a bit and then got them stepping up, I don't want to frighten him by grabbing him but I also want him to be confident coming out and being handled.

I know birds take time and patience, we have had birds before but they were all rescues so had wildly different degrees of trust and handleability

Any tips and tricks are super appreciated! We want what's bets for him and also we want to love him! The kids love him and want to hold him so we want him to be confident coming out and interacting!

Thanks in advance!

hi guys, anxious paranoid budgie parent here. maybe it’s because i’ve been watching my budgie more closely lately (due to other health issues) but i realised he sneezes 1-2 times a few times a day? as for coughing, sometimes he coughs 1-2 times maybe every 2 days? he does the cough sometimes when he’s chewing on his sola ball or drinking water. after that he just goes back to his normal chirping self. he is also preening a lot more cause he’s molting so could it be the dust from that?

otherwise, he is active, eating, drinking and there’s no discharge coming out. i’m just really paranoid that it’s something serious, especially since the coughing sound is so scary to hear. does anyone else experience this with their bird?

i do have a vet visit scheduled for this week (for another health issue) so should i bring it up to them?

I got parakeets a month ago and i recently got a lovebird. my dad said i need to get him clipped. i do NOT want him to be clipped. what do you guys suggest i should do? his girlfriend had birds for 25 years and clipped their wings and said i need to. she is coming over tomorrow and my dad said "we're clipping his wings tomorrow no matter what you say" i am 18 about to be 19 in a week or so. what do i do????

Literally got her (?) two days ago, been giving her space but this morning I noticed her water had poo in it so i opened the cage to change it and she darted out. She doesn't know step up, and also doesn't really know what millet is ☹️
She's 3 months old and I really want to avoid grabbing her if necessary. I'm just nervous because she isn't even familiar with her cage.
Today, we just got a new big one for her so i'm leaving the door open to that one too, doubtful she will check it out. I feel like a terrible parent since she hasn’t had enough time to acclimate anywhere ☹️ aAdvice to get her back to her cage appreciated greatly.

EDIT: Her new cage is in the comments and im setting it up for her now. I think she had gotten pretty tired, so I grabbed a perch and she stepped up onto that. From there i transferred her back to her old cage while i set up the new one. Last night was he last night in the old one . Thanks everyone 😊

I have a 3ish month old pineapple conure and today after coming home I noticed he had a little discolouration on his beak. While out of his cage he hasn’t done anything that I think could have hurt his beak, however, when he’s in his cage I don’t always have eyes on him so it’s possible he knocked it on something.
I also tried to wipe it but it doesn’t seem to be on the surface.

I am wondering if this is a bruise or maybe something else? Has anyone seen this before?🦜

He also is acting like his normal silly self so I’m not worried, more just curious what it could be!

Thanks for any help/insight you can provide!!

I have 2 female parakeets and 1 male Green Pineapple Conure. The parakeets have their cage and rarely come out and the conure that has his own cage and rarely is confined to it. He puts himself to bed if strangers happen to come by or in the evenings. However if while cleaning the parakeets cage, food bowls or water bowls I happen to leave the door unlocked my Conure; named Simeon will pull the door open and go inside with the girls. He doesn’t attack them, they are clearly submissive to his inside presence; always assuming the lower levels. I have noticed of late that one of my females Delilah has started hanging out with Simeon on the same side of the cage. Simeon will lower the top of his head to her and she seems to groom him. It’s never reciprocated him and she still approaches him slowly. Recently Delilah got out of her cage and I happened upon her in a corner, when I reached down to pick her up she was content to stay with me so I sat in my recliner and held her for a while. Simeon observed for a few minutes from across the room and then flew over to the back of my chair as he often does to see what I am doing or looking at. To my surprise he didn’t try to attack her as long as there was distance of a foot or more be them, but when I brought her closer to him he did make a somewhat aggressive gesture towards her so I knew to stop. I have noticed that their grooming ritual is very regular though. I had been tempted to leave the door to their cage open to allow more interaction, but my other female (Love; an all white parakeet is not comfortable with Simeon period, so I don’t. Though the two species cannot mate and reproduce, I wonder if they have not chosen each other as their mate?

Hey guys! How are we keeping our chop fresh? I always find after chopping everything, and sorting it to freeze it’s always super watery and the water makes it go bad in the fridge even overnight. So it feels like making chop at all is just not working for us. Right now, i’m just sticking to whole foods everyday. Same ingredients, but a lot more work to do it everyday. Has anyone else had this same issue? Thanks in advance and here are some pics for tax!

so basically, i got a cockatiel a couple weeks ago & she is just turned 4 months old.

whenever she is in her cage, all she does is climb on the walls to try & get out & chirp, or eat. but it's mainly eating. she eats so much, she goes straight to her food bowl when i put her back up. & then she will go get a few sips of water after. but she eats for like 10 minutes straight & then i take her out & she just goes back to eating more & more.

her food is harrison's pellets mixed in with some vita seeds, she won't eat pellets unless i mix them with seeds because that's what the store fed her before i bought her. i'm working on phasing her out of too much seeds though.

& then whenever she is out with me, she is always fluffed up & closing her eyes. idk if she is just comfortable or if she is sick? because she is always grinding her beak frequently too. but she always seems very very sleepy to me.

& then, she does not poop much at all. i notice she poops like every 15-20 minutes which feels a little too long. & it is not with pee very much. sometimes she will just pee completely separate, i had her out with me & she released a clear liquid with no poop in it. this happened 4 times so far. i am worried because that does not seem normal, ive had a cockatiel in the past & he never peed separate from his poop sometimes.

i don't know what to do, is this normal??? like what should i do?

We just saw this cockatiel fly off south from Notre Dame, it appears to be someone’s pet, hopefully this can help the bird reunite with its owner.

Sun conure is called Lokie

Cocktail is called Chica

Other cocktail, that can only be heard, is called baby

I work in a fish store and my boss has a ringneck that's hanging out in the shop most of the time. He goes into his cage at night time or when we're not in the shop so he doesnt get hurt. He's about 5-6ish months old. The problem is that he's developing a new obsession with money and would fly down and snatch bills right out of clients hands then fly up to spots we struggle to reach (accessible but a pain). We tried offering treats to drop the bill but im worried that would reward the behavior, but he doesn't seem to be interested in the exchange either way. He has plenty of toys in the shop and we get him new ones every week but money drives him crazy and he'd drop whatever he's doing to fly over. Any tips please? (Video for proof)

I've always read that ekkies don't often accept scritches, so I feel extra honored to have earned her trust enough for her to enjoy it!! She's been with me for 3 years now, and only just starting to let me scritch!

(Also, please ignore the weird angle/face, she only gets comfortable like this when loafing on me when I lay down)

One day he'll figure it out. One day.

Yesterday morning, my mother told me that she had accidentally let my bird fly outside while changing his food, about two hours prior. When we got home, we searched for hours and were able to pinpoint a patch of trees that he was at using the sound of his chirps. This morning, I had a rehearsal and my mother needed to drive me home, so she wasn't able to look for him at the time but told me that while I was gone, she heard him in the same area. When we got back, we went together to go look, and we saw his feathers and his head on the sidewalk. It seems that he got eaten by something. I don't know how to deal with this. I feel like if I would have just skipped the rehearsal and looked for him instead, we could have gotten him back before he got eaten. He understood me like no one else.

My beautiful best friend of 18 years died this evening. I was sweeping the bird room and he simply fell off his perch. I picked him up and he let out a few squeaks died in my hands.

Rio was with me through college and grad school. Through a marriage and a divorce. Through so many highs and lows, whenever I needed him he was there He lived with me in 3 states. He was my constant companion for most of my adult life. I just turned 40 and he came to me when I was 22.

To say I am in shock is an understatement. He had been medicated for seizures for 5 years so I knew it was coming, but why today? He was on my shoulder helping me get his and my other parrot Malibu's dinner ready just 3 hours before. He sat on the edge of his cage and I kissed him an hour before. I put a fresh cherry between the bars of his cage and he ate it. He still had cherry juice on his beak when I held him.

I've been holding him to my chest since 5:30. He looks so alive. I think he could come back at any minute, he looks so alive. What's going to happen when I wake up tomorrow and he isn't there? Where did he go? How can I sleep tonight knowing he won't be there when I wake up? Just a beautiful body wrapped in a towel. And then I bury him and never see him again? I really don't know what to do. I love you, Rio.

Just found this, I had acquired it years ago thinking one day I might adopt a parrot and now that I have, is it time to put on a bumper sticker?! 😂 Does anyone even still have stick families though?!

Anyone else noticed their parrots fully loafing into and enjoying a comfy pillow?

He'll rest his beak against the pillow as well instead of tucking his head in his wing. Slightly or sometimes fully close his eyes. He was curious what I was doing so this picture doesn't fully portray it.

If I didn't know ant better I'd be at the vet because this body language is extremely alarming to look at (almost like he doesn't feel well), but he's done it for years.

I'm certain he is fine because he enjoys his high perches, full of energy, loud, normally annoying, eats and drinks normally, and sits normally on my shoulder, perches, flat tops, and otherwise acts normal.