Bird Care Tips for Pet Birds
Proper daily care plays an important role in keeping pet birds healthy, comfortable, and mentally stimulated. Birds are sensitive animals with unique needs, especially when it comes to cage hygiene, diet, enrichment, safety, and early signs of illness. Below are general bird care tips to help support your bird’s health at home. Bird Care Tips […]
Bird Grooming Guidelines
Bird grooming guidelines : Routine grooming is essential for a bird’s health, comfort, and safety. It includes wing trims, nail trims, beak maintenance, bathing, and monitoring damaged feathers. Many services are done by avian veterinarians or trained groomers; owners can learn to do some at home with proper guidance. Wing Trimming Purpose & Philosophy Flight […]
Nutrition & Foraging
Nutrition Foraging & Enrichment
How to Feed Your Bird
Bird Nutrition Providing proper nutrition to captive birds is challenging, since it is difficult to replicate the diversity and balance they would obtain in the wild. Veterinary consensus has evolved over the years, but today most experts recommend a pellet-based diet, complemented with fresh produce and limited seeds/nuts. Key principle: What matters most is not […]
Taming and Training Your Bird
Birds are very social creatures. They flock together in the wild, and will seek social contact in a person’s home. In fact, social contact on a regular basic is necessary. Birds eagerly anticipate contact with their owners, other birds, and even other pets! Bathing Bathing is an activity that most birds enjoy. Provide a small […]
Chlamydiosis in Birds
Chlamydiosis, formerly called ornithosis, and most commonly known to human physicians as psittacosis, or archaic parrot fever, is caused by the organism Chlamydophila psittaci. Bird owners should be fully informed of the implications and the potential for transmission to humans. Transmission Transmission of the disease is primarily through inhalation of contaminated dust from droppings or […]
Feather Loss
Feather loss is a problem that can be caused by numerous factors: Some of these problems are easy to correct, while others are more difficult or impossible to resolve. Mites, Lice, Infections Often these problems can be solved by dusting with the appropriate insecticide or by giving oral medications. Diagnosis is made by examination of […]
Feather Destructive Behavior
Feather Destructive Behavior, FDB, or “Feather Picking,” is not uncommon in captive birds and perhaps is best understood through the viewpoint of your bird. In the wild, they are free to fly, forage, choose a mate, and exhibit normal destructive behaviors on the intended objects, such as with nest building, tree pruning, and food that […]
African Grey (Psittacus erithacus)
African Greys are popular parrots in today’s pet trade. They are well known for their intelligence and excellent speaking abilities. The two recognized species of African Greys are the Congo (P. e. erithacus) and the Timneh (P. e. timneh). There is some debate over the possible subspecies called the Ghana, which is slightly smaller than […]
Amazon Parrot Care
Amazons are among the best-known parrots kept as companion birds. There are many species of Amazons, but only a few are available to the average bird owner. Many species are endangered, kept or imported only by special permit, or kept in closed breeding facilities or zoological parks. Young domestic-bred birds may readily be obtained. Purchasing […]
