Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Waynesboro, Virginia The cutie: Hyacinth Macaw "Hymie"
Yes, it's true... I came home with a Hyacinth macaw this weekend... and it's amazing and my jaw still drops when I look at him. It's like looking at a second house, but in a cage... just kidding!
Meet Hymie, a 2 year old Hyacinth macaw who still twitches his...
Photo by Dave Womach Location: Costa Rica Shown: Keel Bill Toucan
The only way to test for iron storage disease in toucans is to do a liver biopsy and when Dave and I did so with our Swainson Toucan years ago, we found she was very high in iron because when we first got her we were told she couldn't have tap water but that bottled water was ...
Okay, so the title is a little misleading once you watch the video, but I thought it was pretty darn cute! This is probably the only time your bird will "pick up after itself"!
Article by Jamieleigh Womach. She has been working with parrots and toucans since the age of 17. She isn’t homeless but is home less than she prefers to be. She travel...
While working with blue and gold macaws Jersey and Chayko in Musha Cay, Bahamas... it rained the last 2-3 days we were there and our only way of getting from one place to the other was via our golf cart that everyone on the island had. Luckily, you could pull the sides down to keep from getting too wet on your drive.
Photo by Jamieleigh Locat...
I made the goal to focus hard on trick training all my parrots who don't know as much as Bondi (my lead trainee) and really try to get them to know more behaviors this month. I wanted this month's priority with my birds to be all about behavior training whether it's natural behaviors on cue, prop tricks or just trained behaviors.
I thought s...
Photo by Sally Location: Lacey, WA Eating a whole broccoli: Senegal Parrot "George"
I use to spend hours upon hours dicing and slicing up fruits, veggies and more into small pieces so my birds could eat it. Then one day while we were on the road in Oregon, my mom bought a seedless watermelon for my toucan to eat. We were staying at a hotel a...
