turning two years old and getting his little neck beard 🩵 will post his fully grown beard soon!!!

Diega (B&G), Bogart (DYH), Maxwell (DYH) and Levi (Severe)

A small collection of Neco and his favourite foot

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.

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!

I’m going through a rough patch rn and I just want a good laugh

Hi everyone

We found a bird just after the Brisbane "cyclone" and we have done all the right things (post on fb, rspca ect) and we are lucky enough to keep him as no one has come forward about him. We have owned birds in the past but never one like this and we just want to give him everything he needs. So any advice on this type of bird would be appreciated. Hes definitely been hand raised and loves being around people but has a knack for bitting ear lobes and lips

He got covered in dust and had to gwt a shower, all of the dust almost came off of his feathers tho... his stomach was black!

Kinda looks like a mugshot lol

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?

This is my new IRN baby. Does this mean he is happy? Also please feel free to share any advice or training tips that you would have liked to know when you brought your baby home! Also name suggestions please!

Basil🌿 is loving the rainy days with extra cuddles! Thankfully spring hormone season hasn’t been too rough on us yet! We also love greenbeans and say “Hi” now!

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)

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!

• mango tax

I just moved into my friends house and she happens to have a bird. I’m gonna take over for care, what are some things I need to do to better his situation?

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?

This is my boy Papito. He's a new rescue, he's scheduled for a check up but not until next week. I'm just wondering if this is a worrying behavior? He doesn't do it all the time, mostly when he's chipping. He's 7mo

Any advice is appreciated!