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What’s with this really weird hummingbird behavior?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

To you bird people…i live in pennsylvania, and i have a hummingbird feeder. And while hummingbirds that feed on it usually hover, every once in awhile they’ll land on it for 20 or 30 seconds. Well, I noticed a couple weeks ago, one hummingbird when it lands, will do this thing where it sorta bobs its head from side to side…almost like someone listening to hip hop music might. I thought that particular hummingbird might just have some mental or physical problem, but then noticed the other day an entirely different hummingbird clearly doing the same thing. It’s this slow rythmic bobbing of the head back and forth when perched, they may do it 10 or 15 seconds at a time. Both that did it were males.
Is this a mating attractant? Does it deal with sugarwater digestion? Is it already a known behavior to hummingbird experts? I doubt I’ve made some behavioral discovery, but if nobody on here is familar with this behavior, I just might have!

Has anyone seen or heard of this behavior?

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name of male bird 7-1/2″ black head and back black and white wings red brest, female without the white?

Posted on April 28, 2012 by admin| 4 Comments

They have fairly long tails. Sighted in my front yard in west portland or. Both male and female had beaks full of grubs and insects and flew away together(probably to feed young)

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I have two adult Double Yellow head amazons to breed, can I mount my nest box OUTSIDE the cage ?

Posted on April 2, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

My cage is not real big (3x5x5) so I don’t want to clutter the inside of the cage with a huge nest box. I’d like to make a hole in the bars so I can mount the box outside and have the birds access it from the hole in the cage, but I don’t know if the birds will find it foreign and not enter the box. Any info would be appreciated.
Joe

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I found a baby sparrow?

Posted on March 23, 2012 by admin| 8 Comments

I found a little bird hobbling along our driveway (I think it’s a baby sparrow) and it had dried blood on its head and it looked like it had fallen out of it’s nest. We took it inside and a friend of our told us to feed it cat jelly meat or cat biscuits soaked in water. At the moment we are keeping it in a shoe box with a towel inside it.. Is there anything else I can do for it?

I read that you should leave them where you find them because their mother will come back for them, but after waiting a while no bird came. Our friend was holding it for a while, so if we put it back out there now the mother wouldn’t even take it back (from what I’ve heard)

Help please!

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When should I take my baby parakeet out?

Posted on March 5, 2012 by admin| 4 Comments

So the egg hatch about 3 weeks ago.And the baby parakeet is starting to grow feathers.It has feathers on its tail and seems to have a lot on its head,but you can still see the pink part (Only on some part).I don’t know if I should take him out of the box yet.Earlier I took him out and then he went back into his nesting box.Should I take him out or leave in the box? The bird is really scared of me for some reason what should I do to bond with it? Thanks if you can help!

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My other parakeet is trying to kill the hatchlings?

Posted on February 22, 2012 by admin| 4 Comments

My sweet shy parakeet, Angel, had a brood of hatchlings with our other parakeet, Beslie. We kept three. Now, she had another brood, and they’re nearly ready to leave the nesting bo. They always peek out now, and have nearly all their feathers. The problem is that ever since about two weeks ago, one of the old brood, I’ll call her C, has been attempting to go inside the nestig bo and kill the three babies. one, she somehow managed to enter and injured two in the head, leaving very terrifying bloody marks quite close to the eyes on both. Even as I speak, (type, whatever) she is still trying to invade and destroy. the mother sometimes attacks her back, and they fight noisely. Angel always has to chase C away from the nesting box, just in time. We’re trying to give C away, but it will be awhile before anyone takes her. I’m afraid that as soon as one comes out, into the bird cage, she will automaticlly murder him/her. I love them all dearly (except for C…) and don’t want them to be killed. Is there any way to keep C from killing them? I don’t want to kill her, and I annot afford a separate cage. What do I do?

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a duck showed up in my yard and has taken up residence under my deck- I can’t ID him?

Posted on February 21, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

Larger dark brown/black body – green mallard head – white softball size crest on his chest – No other mallard markings – he is not a small size duck – I live in Northern Michigan and it is still not very warn yet. No other nesting birds have hatched yet. Has been hanging around about two weeks now and has gotten to the point I can feed him from my hand. He will come up to me wanting to be fed. Can wild ducks and domestic cross breed? Does not appear to be injured -although I have never seen him fly.

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