Wild Parrots in Florida

Photo by Dave Location: West Palm Beach, FL Flying free: Wild parrots of Florida During my week long stay in West Palm Beach, Florida I got the honor of seeing these beautiful wild parrots in the area. As I was used to the local wild birds of the area, one night as the sun was going down I heard something different. Dave actually noticed it b...
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Hey! Get That Parrot Some Grass

Photo by Amanda Stevens Location: Waynesboro, VA Playing: Galah "Bandit"  Preferably, I like setting my aviaries up on grass. When that isn't available, dirt is fine and when that isn't available that usually means it's on gravel or cement, or inside a building and their ground is sawdust. But I love it when they can be set up on untreated gr...
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Making Showering a Game For Your Bird

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Erie, PA Showering: Blue throated macaw "Jinx", Camelot macaws "Comet" & "Tusa" Sometimes you have to make showering a game in order to get your bird to do it. This is how my mom initially got my galah, Bondi, to shower. She would play the "sink game" with her where she'd run the faucet and Bondi would get sp...
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Adopting Zoey: Our Second Blue Throat Macaw

Remember Zoey? Well, she belongs to my friend Jeanne who most of you should know quite well by now (freestyle flyer student) and recently Jeanne has been given sad news about the state of her health and is not able to care for Zoey any longer. She asked us as friends to adopt Zoey from her while she's still young and "moldable". It took some con...
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A Trick I Use to Socialize My Parrots

Photo by Amanda Stevens Location: Waynesboro, VA Shown: Blue throated macaw "Jinx", Camelot macaws "Comet" & "Tusa" and Galah "Bandit" I was thinking about this trick I use the other day, and how it could apply to you guys since you don't exactly live the life I lead. What I mean by that is, you're not in the circus... but I figured it ou...
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There's This One Thing That Really Annoys Me About Parrots...

Photo by David Location: Coney Island, NY Shown: Animal Open House Aviaries My cockatoo, Bondi, makes this obnoxious sound on metal. If I take all the metal away (which is impossible by the way because eventually she will even do it on the cage bars) she will find something to do this sound on. It's like she's feeding from it and no one reall...
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