I just got a 6 week old parrotlet that i am hand feeding and need a good name I think its a girl. dont have any dark blue on my bird. Green parrotlet
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Will the Mourning Dove mother leave?
About a week ago, a mourning dove nested in our flower box right outside out window. I was babysitting my friends’ son, who is about four years old. One night, I come into yt room and I see him poking at the mother mourning dove through the screen, and when I came in, the mother mourning dove had flown off! It’s been about thirty minutes, and I’m wondering if she is going to come back.. The two eggs had hatched, and the birds have some feathers, but not enough for them to survive. They are about 5 inches long. I haven’t touched them, but still I’m worried if the mom will come back because of what threat the child posed on them.
Black capped chickdee!?
i was walking in the forest behind my house about a week ago, and thats when i saw a bird stuck to some really sticky stuff. ( i have no idea what it was) it smelled bad and stuff so i took the bird home. The stickey stuff was all over the bird so i cut it’s wings( not off just trimmed them like you do with other birds so they can’t fly) because i couldn’t get the stuff of. Well i did that cleaned his feet gently and what not. He is doing fine in my spare cage. but i was reading on the internet that you can teach the these bird to hand feed from you is this true? And if so how do you do it? any info would be help full, and just for you to know i can’t relise him he can’t fly.
well it’s kinda too late now, this morning i woke up he’s dead so…… thx any way i guess.
COCKATIEL/BIRD/PARROT QUESTION??????????????
OK we had a young cocatiel which ours bred. It was out of the nest for about a week and all was fine.Oneday I went to see them and it was on the ground. I thought that was strange so I went in and it couldn’t fly. It was holding its wing a bit funny but it wasnt broken. We put it in the box with the mother (who was broody again) and the next morning it ws dead…Anyone got any ideas what could have happened????????????
Should I bury a baby bird that I found dead in its nest?
There was a cardinal nest outside of my house that i have been watching for the past week or so and slowly but surely i saw two of the three babies leave the nest and last night there was just one left and when i went to check up on her this morning i was surprised to still see her there but when i took a closer look i saw she wasn’t breathing or moving and must have died since the last time i checked up on her, I’m so devastated!! and i cant stand the fact that shes just going to remain in her nest until she is eaten by other animals so would it be okay for me to put her in a shoe box and bury her or am i going to risk getting a disease?
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Tagged animals, baby, baby bird, Bird, cardinal, cardinal nest, closer look, house, last time, look, Morning, nest, night, shoe box, three babies, time, week
Is it better to take your pet bird on vacation or leave him at home?
We are taking a week long vacation to the beach with another couple. We have a young (less than 1 year) gold capped conure. It will require traveling in the car for 7-8 hours, (1 way). I am not sure if it will be more stressful for the bird to take him with us, or if it would be more stressful for him to be away from us for a week. If we left him at home, my mom could come every day to feed him and spend a little time with him. Help!
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Tagged beach, Bird, conure, couple, gold, gold capped conure, home, little time, long vacation, mom, pet, pet bird, vacation, week, year
Cockatiels feeding babies that aren’t theirs?
I have 5 adult cockatiels. I started with 3 then 2 of them had 2 babies. Well those 2 babies are adults now and one of them mated with the other female I had before and they now have 3 babies, they’re about a week old. Now that they are rather big, the parents aren’t in the nest box as much, allowing the parents that had the 2 babies in the first place, to go in the box, and they feed the new babies every now and then. These birds must know that these aren’t their babies, why are they feeding babies that aren’t theirs?
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Tagged adult, adults, birds, box, Cockatiels, feeding, feeding babies, nest, nest box, new babies, parents, place, week