Photo by Dave Location: Waynesboro, VA Shown: Galah "Bandit" Whenever I go out of town and leave my birds behind, I always make sure they are housed in their own cage. I would hate for a fluke accident to happen and my birds to get in a fight that someone can't break up, resulting in serious injury. Even when birds get along really well, they a...

My related blog posts: Parrot Body Language Tips and Signs Parrot Body Language Visuals The how to's of body language in parrots Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Waynesboro, VA Shown: Congo African Grey "Cressi"  Cressi is known for showing inappropriate body language of becoming horny and hormonal and, and, and! However, in this picture she is ...

  This behavior is something I notice with my macaws, not so much my medium to small sized parrots but definitely with my macaws. If I offer my hand to them straight up to their bodies sometimes they will get put off and angry and lunge if I don't read the body language well enough telling me they'd rather not come in the first place. I also no...

Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, FL Drinking: Hyacinth Macaw "Hymie" I was recently partaking in a game night at my neighbors house when the topic of water came up. My neighbors Dash and Nancy have been going to school for engineering at the university here and Nancy hates the sink water. "I can SMELL it!" she has always said which is the same ...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Emerald Forest Bird Ranch Pictured: Channel bill toucans I'd been working out dates to come out and visit Emerald Forest for months and was so nervous something would happen to make it fall through. I was communicating back and forth with Jerry about the visit as well as my constant toucan-impulse questions that ar...

Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, FL With their stockings: Galahs "Bandit" & "Bondi" Dave and I got married in July 2004 and immediately left for Japan followed by a tour of Oregon state.  In entertainment, you never get the holidays off because that's when people want to be the most entertained.  We have performed every Christmas since bein...