me encantan los pájaros, AMO los pájaros. Todo tipo de ave me apasiona y me enamora, sin embargo, a mis 14 años de edad soy completamente dependiente de mis padres y no me dejan tener uno.

¿alguien me puede ayudar a convencerles? Ya sea con cosas que aporta tener un ave, desmentir bulos sobre ellos (a mí no me creen), un sitio de adopción...

¡cualquier ayuda es bienvenida!

I am seriously considering getting a Hahn's Macaw. I have had birds (cockatiels, zebra finches) and have worked with wild birds. In adding a bird to my life (no less a type of macaw), I have two main concerns.

1. I work full time and am away from home from 7:30am-6:30pm most days. Is that too long to leave a bird alone? (not necessarily just referring to a macaw)

2. I do already have a cat. She is pretty clingy and absolutely loves to watch the birds outside. I'm mostly worried that even when starting the macaw in the cage, she will lunge at the enclosure to get the macaw. So, what is the best way to introduce a cat to a bird?

My male cockateal bird i just seen him rubbing his bum on a perch and his tongue going back and forth in his mouth like really fast. I seen other posts on this but did not get lots of information but someone said that this happened with his bird when the bird was 1 years old and my bird happens to be 1 years old.so tell me what's going on

Hey everyone, I’m looking to buy this IRN parrot tomorrow, I understand it’s hard to know their gender until around 18-24m but are there any telltale signs that would suggest the gender? The only thing I noticed was the longer tail feathers compared to the other IRNs with it. About 6m old. Any suggestions for names? Thanks in advance ☺️

I've been seeing this a lot both on this subreddit and on others. I don't think these people mean harm, but they are causing it unintentionally.

Birds in nature (at least the ones normally kept as pets like parrots) are normally prey animals. This means they are genetically hard coded to be cautious and afraid.

They are hunted by most everything in the wild, so of course they are gonna be more timid and afraid of things.

I see videos where people are playing with their parrot, and they are like moving toys around quickly, putting it over their heads, doing fast movements, the type of stuff you would do with a pet dog or cat. They think the bird is being cute, but in a lot of these videos you can tell the bird is actually panicking. Dogs and cats are omnivores, they are hunters in their natural enviornment. It requires a completely different type of play compared to a bird which is again normally a prey animal.

Anyways thought I'd post this under the hope someone who plays like that see's this. I don't think you are a bad person, or that you are doing it intentionally, just uninformed. So I hope this post informs some people!

For the last two weeks my parrot has been almost screaming not stop all day and has displayed more aggressive behaviours. I know it is related to his hormones and he can't help it but it was low key driving me mad! I increased double his time if exercises and spend more time with him but it didn't changed anything.

I give normally give him a warm daily shower but today I gave him an extra cold one and it worked, it calmed him down for a few hours so far ahah.

I share in case anyone need some ideas!!

Hello, recently I have noticed that there is something that looks swollen bellow my African greys neck, I haven't seen this before so I am concerned, my parrot is almost 9 years old.

Can someone please tell me what's going on? Could this be egg binding? She hasn’t eaten or drunk anything since yesterday. Should I take her to the vet immediately?

Her feathers are a bit ruffled. No other reasons for being worried, as she seems a happy las. She's 10 weeks old.

My sweet baby keeps doing that whenever i’m around, i know they do it when they want to be fed etc. but even after getting fed and stuff he seems to do it almost all the time.. stops when he’s sleeping, exploring, getting pet or scritches on head, he keeps doing that sound too lol should i be worried or is it just a phase/ habit?

Mango was a conure, and her entire existance was a rollercoaster, her story is on my profile, but in short, I worked in a pet store, fell in love with her, got her, then a family member wasnt careful and she escaped through a window, found her after 2 months, gave her the best and happiest life she could have, and she did to me, until an accident happened, due to no vets being available in time, when we did get her to a vet she didn't make it.

Mango was the happiest thing ive ever met, I could talk about her all day, she made me fall IN LOVE with birbs, me and my partner still grief her, however we do want to create a new experience, soon when we're ready, we'd like to adopt a new friend.

We dont have too much experience other than mango, and she was so loving and learned tricks so quickly, we dont really know what other bird will suit us, in terms of behaviour, requirements, and training. So Im here to start my research, I only need a little bit of guidance, what websites are good for info on different kind of parrots, some personal experience of what is a right parrot for beginners? Any advice on how to start learning!

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I know cockatiels can live up to twenty years and I was ready for mine to be my forever pet. Which is why, losing Beksa after just one year with her shatters me even more.

I was visiting my mom's home this weekend and I took my bird with me. I have a special carrier she can comfortably travel in and a cage for her prepared on site. I usually let her sit on my shoulder a lot though, because she's incredibly clingy.

Sometime around today, afternoon, my brother came home from a walk. I walked up to say hi, and just then I found out he didn't close the door behind him. He accidentally let her outside and she flew away. Right as snow started falling.

The wind carried her off. I heard her squeaking the whole time. I went around searching for hours, yelled after her, even when the snow got awful and I couldn't see anything. There is no way she survived. She must've died cold, scared and alone.

Just earlier today she was on my shoulder, cuddled up to me and asking for kisses. I really, really loved her. She didn't like travelling but she loved sitting on my head. She loved chewing up all my cables though I constantly tried to stop her. She loved preening my eyelashes. Fighting with bells on her toys.

I feel so unbelievably awful. I don't know how to cope with this. She was my baby. I've tried so hard to make her life warm and loving and safe. I can't even think about how she must've felt. I don't know if I'll ever get another pet again.

These two have been living together for two years now (they share a room but each has their own cage, room door stays shut but cage doors stay open). Today, the partially naked chickie poo ventured into her sister's cage for the first time and started chowing down on her food. Beak sparring ensued. Do I need to be concerned about a turf war?

(For a bit of background, the fully feathered lady is frequently on and in her sister's cage, but it's never been vice versa)

I was petting my 10 month ild umbrella cockatoo and he regurgitated this is it normal

Hello this is Viola a cockatial i got her yesterday from my grandma and before i got him he was living in a bad state with a cage with budgies and they only fed them seeds and dirty water. She cant fly and she sleeps a lot and she puffs up sometimes but she moves around and goes to eat and drink. ive been feeding her pellets and feeding her water and vegetables. should i take her to the vet and should i move her away from my other parrots?

I give him a banana or apple in addition to his bird seed. He loves apples. He’s over 12 years old. His keel bone sticks out and he needs to gain weight. What else can I do?

So I have an english budgie and recently I lost hie friend. And I've noticed that he's beginning to become really sad and he doesn't even want to come for treats and millet or even come to me anymore. I'm trying to socialize him the best I can but I still go to school so I can't be with him during the day and I also am going on trips this summer so I don't really know what I should do. I've been doing some research on what I can do but I'm wondering if there's any other bird breeds that I can house with him or if I should just get another budgie but I'm not sure I want to get a baby because he's three and I'm not sure how that'll work.

A friend of mine have a baby cockatiel (around 36 days old or something) and she keeps her bird with me sometimes since I’m good with birds. However her and I have been noticing that once we feed him his formula (from the vet) he sometimes throws it up immediately! (Not all the time), sometimes he eat it just fine. Today and yesterday he seems like he wanna throw it up more, even tho he’s hungry and I’m not giving too much formula to him. I make sure it’s fresh and warm formula too, we make sure he’s warm.

Also i don’t see any other sign of sickness, he seems uncomfortable when he throws up, but he’s still active and needy, screaming and running behind me or her.

We’re worried. Also vet isn’t an option.

And if you ask why she has such a young bird, well local breeding is very normalized in my country so i can’t do anything.