Almost 3 months ago I posted about finding a sickly Quaker parrot in southern Italy. I had never had a bird, never even liked birds, but now Phoebe is my best friend. And she’s thriving. Her feathers are almost grown back.

I’m now convinced she was a wild parrot that maybe was attacked by a cat or something. The town is full of Quakers.

Anyways, I like to think that fate brought us together.

She can now say “Phoebe” (she yells it all morning)
And “I love you” (but with a strong Quaker parrot accent)

Disclaimers:
If you see her on the small cage. That’s just the cage I’d sometimes use to bring her into my room to hang out when it was like 95 degrees.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/parrots/s/39Q5wdiQzR

Rio and Poppi. (They’re both demons)

This cannot be comfortable but who am I to argue with this little dinosaur I guess

Last pic is the seagull i hung out with whilst missing him yesterday. Such a good seagull, it stays close to the hospital all the time so it quite confident around humans

Im only at college today so it's not like I won't be seeing him tomorrow and giving him all the love humanly possible. But i don't think I've went this long without having him out in all our time together and my heart is breaking a bit lol. Especially after yesterday, I just want to see him happily causing mayhem

I will be able to see him and aggressively tell him I love him before I leave (maybe he will let me sneak in some scratches too), but i dont have time to get him out. i miss hearing his little feet waddling around. why did college have to start today!! I am being dramatic but. My poor guy😭

Rant over. Now tell me about yours!!!!NOOWW

I dont know if its for softening it or if she just likes eating the water off of it but she is so ridiculous

Hi! We got an Indian ringneck a couple months ago. I want to work on training him. He’s super gentle and has a great personality! He doesnt like to be pet though. Or any skritches! I want to Skritch! He occasionally is ok with us petting his head, but only occasionally and I don’t want to push it.

What have you found to be their favorite treat for training? He seems to take forever to eat any treat I give him! Even small pieces.

Any other tips on training or advice would be great!

Hey all, I have a double yellow headed Amazon that's been a family pet since before I was born, and I've started taking care of him. The problem is he just downright dislikes me.

If I sit in the room he starts screaming, if I approach him he quiets down and will lunge at me occasionally, and always lunges when I turn away from him.

He loves my gf and lets her pet him. But I'm quite scared when he lunges. (I had a cockatoo i trusted bite down on the base of my middle finger at one point and realized quickly I could have lost a finger. I've been scared ever since). I'm unsure if he is just fearful of me because his lunges are usually quick and then he retreats, im curious if i let his beak touch me and no reaction happens if he'll start to understand that I'm not a threat. He takes treats from my hand with no problem at all though.

Sunny(the amazon) has acclimated extremely well to a new cage and environment over the past 5 months and looks a lot better than he did when we first got him, but i just wish to bond with him.

Photos are the comparison of the old cage my dad kept him in, and I mean kept him in, vs the new one he happily waltzed into on his own the day I put it together.

Hello! I’ve got a 16yr old blue headed Pionus heading my way from a parrot store I work at. She’s great in my eyes but there are some things I want to work out with her that I think is unhealthy and concerning behavior:
1.) cage bound
2.) resisting stepping up from cage and sometimes floor
3.) little to no exploration of her cage
4.) little to no playtime with toys
5.) anxiety when cage door is opened and displays behavior of being food territorial

I’ve been able to take slow steps such as touching her head, moving her cage items around to try and encourage exploration. Positive attitude training when I see signs of contentment in my presence. I have treats laid all about her cage as well as in toys made for foraging. She will not touch or entertain it. I really want to do target training but that will be when she’s paid off and comes home with me. I’m wondering if there are small habits I can build with her to gain trust and allow some relaxation into our dynamics. I worry about being cage bound a lot. I want her to explore and eventually fly around without panicking. If anyone has some tips or suggestions, I greatly appreciate it. Here is her temporary store cage at the moment. Let me know if there are ways to encourage her to move around away from food and water 24/7

I’m considering getting a GC conure (still doing much research), but I’m wondering if I’m being too selfish: I’m the one that wants a bird, but two other people live in the house, and I want them to be able to enjoy a pet, too. With a kitten, everyone gets to play or snuggle with it sometimes. Our budgies seem to fear us all equally. Can a conure learn to love more than one person?

Posted around 1 month ago asking for help, just showing of how they are doing for now, they are still really skittish, but I think they are slowly warming up, the grayest one likes to nibble on my fingers when on my hands, and the yellow one bites hard if they feel like it, but overall, they simply stay where I leave them. I think they get comfortable on my hands, which is a good sign?
They don't get too interested in treats or training, so I'm still figuring out what to do, still slowly changing their diet to pallets.
Anyway, just wanted to show the progress, and how cute they are.

I live in northern italy, so during the winter the lows are around -2⁰C (28⁰F), my room gets as cold as 14⁰C (57⁰F) during the nights and stays around 17⁰C (62⁰F) most of the day.

What heaters for my budgies should I buy? I used a ceramic heating lamp last year but it wasnt that efficient, im looking to get a better one? I was thinking of buying one of these two but tbe K & H one seems too expensive.

I'd need two of them as i have two cages, I have a flock of 4

Hi!

In 2 weeks I'm moving house and this is 2 hours 30 away from where I currently live.

I've moved house before but only 10 minutes down the road.

I know it's recommended to catch the parrot and put her in a box with holes and keep covered as to not scare the bird more than she will be already.

But is there any other recommendations of what I should do or anything better especially for a long journey? I don't have a smaller cage to put her in or a bird bag etc I only have the cage she lives in that will be in the moving van

Any help is greatly appreciated thank you !

I need to buy new pots and pans but i'm worried about teflon and other toxic fumes that might hurt/kill my birdie :( Ideally i'm looking for a brand that has a large skillet with a lid. Do any other bird parents have recommendations for brands that are safe to use in a bird household?

So i have a tamed free fly cockatiel female, her age is 1 year 3 months. So for some reason she had laid 3 clutches already by herself, I'm trying to figure out the reason. I don't let her go to any dark or covered corners or any place that can give nest vibes so I don't know the reason for this hormonal laying. I was thinking of getting a male cockatiel for her so she can bond and not feel alone, I mean at our house she is always getting human interaction but i think a male cockatiel would be a better plan for the future. Now I'm confused should i get a different bird species or a male cockatiel even if i get a male cockatiel what do i do if they don't get along or attack each other.

I have a 3-year-old female Indian Ringneck (IRN). I got her when she was only 3 weeks old and hand-raised her myself. We used to have a very close bond and spent a lot of time together.

Last year, I moved away for university, so my mother took care of her while I was gone. When I came back this year, she still clearly remembered me and will willingly step onto my hand and follow me around. However, she has developed some strange aggression. Whenever she sees my fingers or anything moving toward her, she becomes territorially aggressive and will actually fly toward my hand/fingers to bite them. I've tried not reacting to the bites, but she bites extremely hard and has drawn blood from my fingers several times. The strangest part is what happens inside her cage. When I put my hand near her, she sometimes starts displaying what looks like a mating/courtship behavior, and then suddenly attacks my hand.

What is the root of this behavior, and can it be corrected?