Being Non-Confrontational with New Birds

Umbrella Cockatoo’s first day out – see his posture, turning away from me? He is feeling uncomfortable.
One of the things we all love as owners is introducing a new bird to the flock. I love that feeling of knowing someone new is there, tucked safely away for now in a separate room. Quarantine serves an important role in health, but it has an added advantage of allowing your bird to hear the rest of the household without having the shock of having to ...
Setting Up Obtainable Goals for Rescued Parrots

Setting up obtainable goals for rescued and re-homed parrots: What is progress, and how do you know if you’ve made it?
The question of knowing whether you’ve progressed at all can be surprisingly difficult to tell! With our neurotic pet-shop cockatiel, for instance, we had to decide what was her personality, and what was emotional ‘damage’ from her past. Progress for her came in very tiny steps. It took time for me to get that a super-quiet bird may be that way because it is ...