help needed

Hi to anyone who reads this and thank you in advanced. About 9 months ago, my partners 12 year old sister was given a conure to care for. He? (we are not sure but refer to him as a male) was put in a far too small cage for several months, not cared for beyond food and water, and subjected to...

Hello, Let me start by saying this, I wanted a pet, needed something to give me a bit of purpose and take care of. A few years ago I developed allergies to cats and dogs and this has really brought me down. So I decided to get a parrot, did some research, looked for what would be suitable for...

I just purchased a 2 month old ringneck that the owner said was tamed. She clicked right away with my husband, but me on the other hand, she hates. I cannot even hold her or try to open her cage without attacking. Just now she wanted to sit on my shoulder and I thought she was being sweet, then...

I’m looking for a reliable conure breeder so I can adopt a turquoise conure this summer. Does anyone have suggestions? Any advice is greatly appreciated! I’m located in Pennsylvania but I can’t drive out of state to adopt a turquoise conure, so if the breeder is out of state, they would need to...

Hello, I have two pairs of zebra finches. Pair one is a chestnut female and pied male. Pair two is a chestnut female and light gray normal. One of my females seems to spend her time sitting on perches, sitting in the food bowl, and sun bathing. She very very rarely fly's around. Her male fly's a...

Hi guys, This is a desperate situation. My acquaintance, a refugee from Ukraine, in search of shelter, along with her three cockatiels, ended up in Italy, in Venice. Due to stress, one of the cockatiels developed severe diarrhea. She is currently in a hotel in quarantine with Covid and cannot...

so, we (me and my friends) just found a wild cedar waxwing likely orphaned and fallen from a tree. what do we do???? btw an eye may be damaged

Hello everyone, I'm so glad I've found this forum and I am hoping I've found the right community of people to help .. My family Golden Blue Macaw, Mickey, suddenly and unexpectantly passed away on Saturday and my poor mum, Lisa, is in bits. Having a parrot for over twenty years is like having...

All birds are different of course. but my sun Conure is absurdly clingy! he starts doing the thing where they twitch their wings as I leave the door and screams for hours while I'm gone. it annoys the hell out of my family. I adopted him from a local parrot aviary. they breed parrots and are an...

Hi my baby's name is ivy and i dont know the hatch date but they are fully feathered and are currently at 3 feedings i got them last saturday i dont know how to post anywhere else so im gonna ask my question here(if you can tell me how that would be great) they were eating 3 feedings yesterday...

So I've got this orange winged amazon named jack he's a year and eight months old. I got him 2 months ago and he's gotten pretty used to me by now but I've noticed that he is attached to 2 pieces of shirts I own and whenever I change them he seems to lash out and bite me really hard and go as...

Hi, I'm not sure how I should clean egg yolk off my budgie's head. :confused: I'd appreciate some advice. My budgie, (Paris), is semi-tame but she doesn't really like to be touched (anywhere). It's too cold to give shower her. The only idea I have is to feed her some wet spinach. Thanks! :)

hello! So i have had this cockatiel for a bit now, around a couple of years. He has been aggressive to younger children for around the last year and recently has become much more aggressive to them, especially my brother. I don't know how to stop this behavior, i’ve been having my brother feed...

My female budgie, Paris, laid an egg two days ago. She’s four years old and has never laid eggs before, how do I take care of her properly (to prevent egg binding or any health issues). She’s also losing some of her down feathers? She started laying eggs after (roughly) 2-4 weeks of masturbating...

Hi all, First off I just want to say I've been using this site for a while and it has helped tons! I am now at a point where I feel my problem has not already been answered in terms of my specific bird and situation. I have had a female GCC since about July of last year. She turned a year old...

Two days ago, I got a lovebird that the owner says is 6 weeks old. He said that it was off the formula, and gave me a bag of Zupreem pellets to feed it (image attached). The bird eats very well, and is learning how to use the bottle but we have a small dish of water as well. However, it seems to...

Hi all! I'm Mary. New here, just joined because I'm looking for some advice. It's a long story so bear with me: I've had my bird Moe for 3 years (co-owned with my mother who lives with me) since we rescued him. Moe and I are absolute BFF's and we used to spend almost all of my free time...

Hello! I recently got a new tiel and now that it's growing up it's confusing me loads. I noticed that he "relieves himself" on objects like a male cockatiel would do and he'sstarting to sing too and is really really attention seeking and noisy, but for some reason he shows some female...

Hello! I'm new here so just wanted to start by saying THANK YOU to anyone willing to help. I'm 30 days into my relationship with Soda who is a Yellow Naped Amazon and things are going downhill quickly. Just a little background .. fell in love in a pet store (I know, I'm sorry for this but I...

Hi, so iv had my cockatiel since just before she was weaned and I had to spoon feed her, iv taught her to step up when she was little and we have a great bond but I never knew you were meant to teach her how to forage or show her how to use toys ect I just honestly thought she just wasn’t...

So my bird Valentine has been this way for a while now, he hasnt really gotten better but he also hasnt gotten worse. He came to me all scraggly and had a lot of stress bars in his feathers but since May (purchase date) he has moulted and his feathers have gotten a lot less black and a lot...

i have this pair of alexandrine parrakeet. the pair is sitting on fertile eggs at the moment but the problem im facing is that their poop contains undigested seeds its of greenish color, sometimes black and some of it is even gray i give them seed mix, friuts, boiled eggs and bread. PLEASE HELP...

Hey everyone. So tonight my 22 year old cockateil Squeak took a tumble while my bf was watching him. The old man still thinks he can fly but he really can't. Anyway, he tried to fly back to his cage and missed his mark causing him to hit a set of draws beak first and land on his foot. When I...

Hello everybody, I am very new to this! Over Christmas, we found an Eclectus parrot in our garden. We have taken him to the vets and followed up on lost bird ads, but no luck. Somebody must miss him terribly, but until someone comes up, we are more than happy to care for him. We have no...

Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum, and new to bird owning itself as I have never owned a bird in my life, but recently I inherited a mature green IRN from a deceased relative. I'm not sure how old he is, and my relative wasn't even his original owner. He has never been handled to my...

Hey! So im trying to convince my parents to let me get a cockatiel or a parakeet. I have been wanting a bird since i was 8 (im 12 now) and ive done countless amounts of research on everything. I am responsible and i havent gotten less than an a in school since 3rd grade (7th grade now) in which...

My sister has owned a small rainbow lorikeet for about 2 months now. They used to be relatively inseperable (apart from when she had to go to school) but recently it's started being super aggressive when she goes near it. It will happily hop onto my arm, but even just having her in the proximity...

Heya! I'm a first time sun conure owner- for a year now, and I've hit this snag with my sunny. I got him when he was about 3 months old, and he was precious. Already tame and what not. He made being a first time Sunny owner easy. I'm a school teacher so during the school year, he got use to me...

Hello! I am new to this forum and I am planning on getting an Indian ringneck within the next year or two (I would have one now but the bf won't let me yet lol) I already own a cat and a bearded dragon but I feel a bird would bring me so much joy (my other animals do obviously but there's...

Hello people! First of all, I'd like to thank everyone for this amazing forum, forums like these help us keep an innocent soul healthy! I bought a 2 weeks old Indian ring neck 2 weeks ago, the breeder told me to feed him Nestle's Cerelac and nothing else. I've been feeding him well with a 3ml...

Hello :D I was just wondering if anybody has any advice for my first week of having my new Green Cheek Conure! Nobody in my family has ever had one of these unique creatures and I'm pretty dang happy that there is a forum to find out! Advice would help, I already got the cage, toys, perch, etc...

My conure started sneezing repeatedly but I saw no discharge around her nose and appearance wise she seemed fine (I don’t know her gender but I call her a she). There are some dried fruit in her food bowl which I saw her eat then a few minutes later I saw her bob her head back and forth and...

I’ve had two 9-month old sun conures for the past four months, but I think not much bonding has been done still! My family says that they like me the best, they hop up the stairs to my room, scream for my attention when I walk in the room, and they really like being on my shoulders most of the...

Hello everybody. I have been stressing all month about what to do with my birds on New Year’s Eve and yew years day because my neighbors always like making tons of unnecessary noise and throw a big party every year. This is my first year dealing with this when it comes to birds. My birds normal...

Hello, On the 28th of October I got an untamed, aviary cockatiel. I have been told it is a female and around 3 months old. It has now been eating from my hand for about a week, but is still quite scared of my hand. It has not been out of the cage and has not been on my finger as a perch. When...

so, i'm getting an Alexadrine soon and will be having it in an outside walk in aviary. The thing is, the Alexandrine will be less than 4 months old, and i don't want to risk it flying out of it for the first few months in case it won't return, and seeing it's invasive it'd be illegal and...

hi im new to this thread and to being a parrot owner. the only other birds ive had are chickens i have 3 birds. fava, chickpea, and lentil. fava is the biggest then its chickpea then lentil. when i let them out of the cage to fly around lentil will come to my shoulder first. theyve yelled at...

Okay, first of all, I apologize. I know that some people might get angry with my post, and you have full right to be. I am angry with myself too. Now let's start with a little bit of background: 11 years ago my father bought a yellow headed Amazon, his name is Oliver! He was just a baby. He...

Hello! I am a new member on the forum as a new parrot owner! Recently, while driving home, I almost hit the little guy that was exhuasted and afraid. I managed to catch him and bring him home! Next day I went staight to the vet so that he could check him! He gave me some info on his diet...

Hi everyone, I saw a forum about this recently but for the life of me I could not find it again. I plan to take my GCC with me basically everywhere I go that is suitable, and I believe a flight suit would allow me to do this. I would prefer one with a diaper included, purely because Conure poop...