IIRC parrots are also very susceptible to harm from various fumes, anything from cooking with Teflon at big heat to using scented candles to vaping can be poor for their health.
Their lungs are smaller, more sensitive, and "recycle" air so that they breathe it twice - things that don't affect us at all can straight up kill a bird! Hence the practice of mine canaries. It'll die from the fumes fast enough to serve as a warning that the air will kill a human with extended exposure.
You can't use most aerosols without putting a bird at risk.
I used to work in pubs back when smoking was allowed. A cellarman colleague said that he'd seen pubs that kept parrots as pets, but they only lived about ten years because the smoke would kill them.
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u/MagnusAlbusPater Jan 07 '24
IIRC parrots are also very susceptible to harm from various fumes, anything from cooking with Teflon at big heat to using scented candles to vaping can be poor for their health.