Fine Featherd Friends

[labworm]

Wondering if anyone else has some sort of bird as a pet.

This Is Sparky, a Yellow-naped Amazon who is 22 years old and she has been keeping me company for 20 years.

Sparky is an import, I am sure bird owners know what that means, don't put your finger in the cage, although I can.

She has a decent vocabulary and can bring a smile to your face.
Fish eye photo.

 

[A10]

Nothing but wild birds at the feeder at our place, but a good friend had an African Grey who was just a hoot! (pardon the pun......)

 

[labworm]

Nothing but wild birds at the feeder at our place, but a good friend had an African Grey who was just a hoot! (pardon the pun......)

Google "Alex African Grey Parrot", died a few years back, but was an amazing bird.

 

[LVSteve]

My late wife and I have always had birds. I'm down to two, a budgie and a cockatiel, both refugees. The parakeet came from a home where the mess he made did not sit well with his owner. The cockatiel came from my FFL's aging mother who could not look after him any more. He was a foundling in New Jersey and was named Flip, what else? Here he is sitting on a ledge on the outside of his cage. It was some time before he got comfortable enough to do this. He detects the presence of any females in the house instantly and plays up to them, little hound-dog. That's my boy!

 

[labworm]

LVSteve

Looks like Mr. Mischief to me.

Who would ever have thought men would be combing their hair today so they would look like Flip.

They all get in trouble when you turn your back.
Sparky is great at removing screws, and she doesn't need any tools.

 

[LVSteve]

LVSteve

Looks like Mr. Mischief to me.

Who would ever have thought men would be combing their hair today so they would look like Flip.

They all get in trouble when you turn your back.
Sparky is great at removing screws, and she doesn't need any tools.

Not really. Apart from trying to chat up the girls he does not get up to much. He will occasionally fly and when he lands he gets the "Uh-oh, I can't get back" look. At this point he is my best buddy and will step straight onto my hand for the ride home. Try it at any other time and I will be bitten.

 

[BUFF]

My ex had a cockatiel that lived to be about 20 years old. I can't recall the circumstances now, but the bird somehow became a member of the Democratic National Committee and had a credit card issued to her. It gave me copious material to line her cage bottom with, and she seemed to get extra pleasure to poop on certain politicians. I still get requests for her for financial donations to politicians. From some angles, she bore a strong resemblance to Meryl Streep. I can't explain it, but she did. The bird seemed to like me a lot more than she did the wife. While we were in college, I worked nights as a printer. I used to let the bird out of the cage and eat cereal on the kitchen table while I ate mine and read the newspaper in the mornings. I was surprised at how attached I became to the little budgie. Sometimes I still think I can hear her scratching around in her cage in her room sometimes.

 

[Michael Stern]

Another Yellownape

Lewis (at right in photo) pretty much rules the roost around here, bullying dog, cat, and wife. I got her in 1984 at about 1 year old (she had no yellow nape yet), and did not discover she was a hen until she was 10. Hence, the gender-confusion of her name.

 

[Cpo1944]

We have two

Morgan the African Grey 12 years old

Pippin The Caique 10 years old

They are both very smart . Morgan is quite talkative and says what she wants ie; wanna go outside , want some, pizza , chicken, shower ,see ya later, go back and on and on.

I am US Navy vet and My Marine best friend has taught her to whistle "The Halls Of Montezuma" much to my chagrin,- actually I just act mad , I really think its fun stuff.

Pippin does not talk , but she makes her wants clearly known and she has a whole series of whistles and other sounds and body language that speaks as a loud as words.

These pix are on my canoe which they helped me build- they chewed various bits and pieces gave me even more stuff to sand smooth which I really needed to help speed up the job.

 

[srsmyth]

I have one too.

Rio is my Green Cheek Conure, he is 5 years old. After my old Cockatiel passed I decided to get a conure thinking it might be a more docile bird. Nope. Into most everything but he is fun. [ I think he's a he ]

 

[M&P Freak]

My wife has two parakeets that I somehow inherited. They are fun but can get loud if I'm on the phone. If it's important business, they get real loud. How do they know? Our not-so-domesticated cat has to be watched closely. The dog does a pretty good job of that. Then there is the countless wild birds out back. I live and work in a zoo.

 

[Slowhanddd]

JD,my African gray.He's 19 and talks up a storm and is a very smart bird.Not nearly as smart as Alex that was mentioned,but he's still a character.

 

[Cpo1944]

Slowhanddd,
Your JD looks good he is in fine feather.
Our Morgan is from a recent divorced home . my x daughter-in -law was a screamer and also a very short tempered person. Her behavior upset poor docile Morgan so much that Morgan started feather plucking . It got pretty bad ,- lots of raw/bare bloody patches- but then my son asked us to keep her for him , and now she is in a peaceful environment .2 years later,
She has dramatically improved and looks pretty good-although not as good as JD.

 

[Cpo1944]

poor feathers

Here`s a shot of Morgan outside and happy, but you can see the feathers still have a long way to go before they are completely healed.
She is getting better all the time and has adjusted to her new home quite well. When she lived with That Woman, she would bite me -usually drew blood/ sometimes a hunk of meat-whenever I tried to make friends.
Now she is all over me snuggling and giving kisses and wanting to play. I never would have guessed she could change so much.

 

[speedyquad]

we have had parakeets, a cockatiel, and a pair of love birds.

the parakeets were about a year old when we were rearranging the living room and had placed them i the bedroom. we heard some kind of ruckus with them and when we went to see...the one was attacking the other. it actually killed it. the murderous bird was found dead about a week later.

the cockatiel was inherited from my wife's parents. they had had it for a long time before i was around. it lasted a few more years before old age claimed it.

the love birds...i can honestly say why they are called love birds. it was like a 24 hour porno...lol...they had to go because they would not stop and the the daughter was only 5...live bird porn and 5 year olds don't mix...

we only have ball python now though...

 

[Mickey D]

Rio is my Green Cheek Conure, he is 5 years old. After my old Cockatiel passed I decided to get a conure thinking it might be a more docile bird. Nope. Into most everything but he is fun. [ I think he's a he ]

I had a GC Conur also. They are very hard to identify gender, but I read long ago that the males have a flatter head. Yours looks like a male.

I lost him last year when he got his feet tangled in his hut. I blame myself for not noticing it was shredded inside. He stressed out and died while I was at work.

Here is my little guy 'Flip' the bird. He was my buddy and lived on an open cage for 10 years.

 

[Tom Beavert]

Bird?

We have a Green Cheeked Amazon, Chuckles, a hen born in '86.
My wife is the only acceptable human, anyone else must bleed. When she bites, she says 'ouch' then laughs her head off.
tb

 

[LVSteve]

My ex had a cockatiel that lived to be about 20 years old. I can't recall the circumstances now, but the bird somehow became a member of the Democratic National Committee and had a credit card issued to her. It gave me copious material to line her cage bottom with, and she seemed to get extra pleasure to poop on certain politicians. I still get requests for her for financial donations to politicians. From some angles, she bore a strong resemblance to Meryl Streep. I can't explain it, but she did. The bird seemed to like me a lot more than she did the wife. While we were in college, I worked nights as a printer. I used to let the bird out of the cage and eat cereal on the kitchen table while I ate mine and read the newspaper in the mornings. I was surprised at how attached I became to the little budgie. Sometimes I still think I can hear her scratching around in her cage in her room sometimes.

Cockatiels can live a long time. My sister-in-law had a male who ended up with us and he lived to be 26 or 27. SIL could not remember the exact year she first got him.

As for the female cockatiel liking you, we had the same deal here. SIL's other bird was female and took quite a shine to me after moving in with us. At certain times of year she would come out on her door and if I bent down to say hello, she would turn around, put her head down and shove her tail in my face. No prizes for guessing the meaning of that message. My wife would call her a brazen hussy while we both split our sides laughing. Good times.

 

[srsmyth]

I had a GC Conur also.
I lost him last year when he got his feet tangled in his hut.

I am so sorry to hear that. That story strikes home because my bird was shredding the inside of his hut also and Sheryl told me she heard that could be dangerous to the bird.
She just noticed it so she bought him a new hut today.

 

[Slowhanddd]

Jack good on you for taking the bird.I think that it will do fine.Sure looks better than what you said she looked like.JD's cage if in the front room where he can see every thing that goes on.He likes being into every thing that happens around here and usually has a comment on it.Some not right.but that's thankfully not often.I know which one of my sons taught him the two word phrase as he sound just like who ever he learns some thing from.Have a great Easter.