My bird is pregnant. What do I need to prepare? I have a nesting box and I know I don’t need nesting material.
Harrisons Brand Bird Food?
I have heard people talking about Harrison’s organic bird food. I reasearched it and they didn’t have them in specific sizes. Does anyone have feed this brand. If so, what is the pellet size?
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our much loved sun conure died?
Our Sun cunure died yesterday got egg bound on her second egg she ever laid she was nearly 10 years old and a very much loved part of the family.
We are worried about our male will he be fine with a new mate? as they grew up together since birth. he seems a bit sad not acting normal not sure if he has relized what has happened he just sits in his nest box.
We really want to get him another freind, will he get along with a new conure? or learn to get along with a new conure? should I get an older bird closer to his age or a hatchling
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Tagged 10 years, conure, cunure, egg, family, part, Sun, sun conure, yesterday
Baby Bird?
My sister found a baby bird outside. It’s almost grown, but it needs a few more weeks and we can’t find it’s nest. We decided to take care of it until it grows up, but what do we need to do for it to keep it comfortable, how do we feed it, and what do we feed it?
PLEASE HELPASAP – just found baby bird can you help identify!?
I went outside at 10 min ago and on the front lawn was a little baby bird! just sitting there like it was chilling haha. i find babys all the time but never this breed…i need to know what it is so i can help it accordingly!
heres a link i found with the pictures of the same bird someone else found.
http://www.wanderingthought.com/2009/06/yellow-beak-baby-bird.html
i live in AUSTRALIA and i do know it is a NATIVE aussie bird –
i called it Grimace cause its huge yellow grin 
ive raised baby budgies all my life and looked after many wild birds but not this one!!!!
i WILL be taking it to a carer today but they arent open for another 2 hours…ive got him in my old nesting box with sheddings andi chucked some woolen bedding pads around him so hes nice and warm and in dark. but hes next to me chirping away so please advice asap!!!
oh also…i will NOT be returning him where he came from…i have always in the past and the mothers come back =) but Grimace (lol) was in the middle of the lawn and there are no trees around it till about 10m out (and they are pines) so not nesting trees…plus my 3 cats are outside…no idea how he got there!
sigh.i hate when people DONT READ THE QUESTION!
dude its a practically unfeathered bird in the middle of a lawn with a street full of cats. i waited 20min and no bird came by. there were NO trees around. and the ones that were, i checked over and over and NOTHING
i hate people like you! anyway im driving it to a rehabilitation centre now so you can shove that up ya lskjdfl!
sorry but people like you make me mad.
Woodpecker — injured juvenile downy woodpecker?
We have an injured juvenile downy woodpecker and have made several calls to local avian vets, rehab facilities and wildlife sanctuaries. Thus far, no response. While I still hope to hear back from someone knowledgeable who can take him, what do we do if they don’t? He has an injured wing, but otherwise is in good spirits. If he survives his injury, but can not fly, what are the odds that we can raise him in captivity? We have managed to feed him a couple of mealworms, but after that….? Has anyone else done this or had experience with this kind of bird? Thank you in advance.
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Tagged avian, captivity, downy, downy woodpecker, fly, injury, mealworms, odds, rehab, rehab facilities, response, someone, spirits, wildlife, wildlife sanctuaries, wing, woodpecker
What could my cockatiel need?
I have 2 cockatiels and they are a bonded pair. They had babies and all of them hatched and are doing great. It’s been about a week and a half since they hatched. The parents are great at raising them and have raised babies before (they were given to me since the owner of them got babies from them and didn’t want to keep the adults anymore)
They are not friendly birds and especially not since they had the babies. They will however screech to me if they need or want something. Example – if I don’t give them fresh water right away and sleep in or whatever, they let me know about it. Or if they are wanting some millet, they will screech until I give them some more. I change their food and water daily, made sure everything is clean, cleaned the nest box and put fresh paper towels down so the babies are kept clean, and for some reason the adults are screeching and carrying on all day today. They have been really quiet since they laid the eggs and today has been the first day I heard them really acting crazy. I’ve been keeping the curtains closed and only letting some light come in because they haven’t been so active…i know when I keep the curtain open before they laid eggs the female would screech and be active the whole time. I’ve done everything and they are both running about screeching. The male is usually the quiet one except for his pretty whistles and he does the cat call. I walk back into the room and they start running around back and forth on the bottom of the cage attacking their cuttle bone (they knock it down and only eat it on the bottom of the cage for some reason). There is plenty left and its clean…i dont know what they could want , but all this screeching I’m surprised the babies aren’t scared lol. Anyone have any ideas? Or is this just normal?
blank, i read somewhere to make sure to take the shells out and clean every other day in the nest box so bacteria doesn’t build up. I haven’t cleaned every other day in there, but I do check every day to make sure it’s not filthy. This has not been the first time I cleaned inside. But I had to, because they had went poo all over the place and the paper towels were wet and nasty. Birds really do use the bathroom ALOT! lol!
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Tagged adults, babies, Cockatiel, Cockatiels, half, owner, pair, parents, week