earthquakes

[ROSIEKING]

Hi Everyone
If you live in an area where there are earthquakes, do your birds just go crazy when one happens? I live in Oklahoma City and we had one at 2am and my birds just lost their minds. I thought something had gotten in the cage with them. I'm suprised they didn't hurt themselves with all the flapping about they were doing.

 

[MonicaMc]

When I lived in California (only about 30-45 min drive from where I live in Nevada...) we did have Earthquakes. Ya, the birds would freak out! One earthquake was strong enough to knock over one of the cages! Birds were not happy!

If it was a minor earthquake though, they wouldn't freak out, but they were definitely unsettled!

Since moving (and I've moved twice), earthquakes really haven't been an issue... I live in the Reno/Sparks area of Nevada though, so quite a distance from where the major earthquakes do occur in California (the southern part).

 

[Kiwibird]

I grew up in AZ. I remember when I was really young waking up to my parents birds in the middle of the night because they were having fits and scared to death. At the time, nothing seemed to prompt it either. The next morning, it was on the news that California had an earthquake at the exact time the birds went ballistic (I think it was the Northridge quake). We didn't feel it, but they sure did, all the way in a different state hundreds of miles away! Parrots are very sensitive (as are most animals) to things like that.

A few years ago, Kiwi started having fits in the middle of the night with no apparent reason. I thought at first maybe it was a similar situation to my parents birds, and that CA had another earthquake. My husband looked around outside and there was a medical helicopter that had landed in the middle of the road at the end of the block (big accident). He mustve felt the vibrations of it or something (he's used to sirens, they're all day and night where we live), because you couldn't actually hear it inside.

 

[BillsBirds]

Birds are sensitive to things like eartquakes, tornadoes, etc. Changes in weather, air pressure, and other natural phenomenae. That's how they survive in the wild!

 

[Customcasket]

I live in Southern NJ (I'm about 15 miles outside of Philadelphia) and we've only had 2 earthquakes that I can remember. One happened near the end of August 2011 (I think it was that decent sized one that originated in VA) and I was driving while it was happening and I had no idea what was going on. I thought it was wind blowing my little car around as I was going down I295 and somehow not blowing the leaves on the trees... After I got to where I was going people were asking "did you feel the earthquake?" Did I feel the WHAT?! We don't get earthquakes here! I wasn't home to see how the birds reacted to it, but we had another one after that one and the only reason I woke up was because the birds were going nuts in their cages. I woke up with them freaking out and then I felt it. Otherwise I'm sure I would've slept right on through it!