Takito

[takito]

Hello, everyone just now joined the forum, I have several types of parrots
they are the center of my life, 2 are makaws, 4 conrues, 7 , small parrots not sure
what "species", I call them "pocket parrots",..of those 7, the 7th is a recent and first time they hatched a egg succesfully,... Miki and Mini are the parents,...

With the baby in the nest,

Actually it is not much of a baby now, it has been coming out of the nest, and can fly,
the parents still pay attention to it, and stay with it, (I am not sure if it is male or female, so I say "it"),....

Here also is a gif animation I made, it does not have some of the parrots,
since it was kind of a long time ago,
but anyway here it is:

All together there are 17 birds, including the 2 makaws, 2 cockaties, and 2 small "bunjies", or parakeets,.... Ok well I guess for now that is about it,..
Nice to meet every body.

 

[Scott]

Welcome to you and your huge flock! Beautiful pics and gif, thanks for sharing!!

 

[Jesfan]

Hello, very handsome family you have.

 

[Flboy]

Welcome to you and your awesome family!

 

[OwnedByGeorge]

The pocket parrots are called lovebirds.

 

[takito]

Thanks for the welcome, and for clarifying on the name "lovebirds", which is what I thought,
based on looking at some photos and articles on the internet.
It is kind of a long story on how I ended up with so many, to be brief it started with my wife,
she bought the first 2, Micky and Mini, the yellow ones in the previous photos. We had them
before I retired, and I really did not have much to do with them, working all the time 6 days a week.
It was after I retired, since I was at home all day, I started taking care of them , one thing led to another,... and now I have a whole bunch. I built a huge room, "house" for them, so they all can fly around, etc. All though they have cages, the doors to the cages are all ways open, they go in
and out at will.
Not shown in the previous photos, is Guako , and Hilda the mackaws,... they are relatively recent, Guako I have had about 4 months now, Hilda I got just a couple of months ago,... so to introduce Guako and Hilda:
The left side is Guako, on the right is Hilda,..in the middle are both,.... sometimes
they go up into the trees as well, but it is kind of hard to get them to come down,..so mostly I just let them climb up on the later, when they get bored with that, they let me know.

 

[takito]

This is George, so to introduce George, here is some photos of him,
he loves apples,...
Another thing, I am not sure what kind of parrot George is, any one
know, ?

 

[Scott]

Good question! George is beautiful, is he a standard species or hybrid?

 

[takito]

Thanks, for the reply,.. I am not sure, even on that, we got him from a street vendor here in
Mexico, the "vendor", said he is a "papagayo", stupid me, when I look that up , it is just another
word for "parrot", and does not apply to any particular species.
In any event, I like him a lot, at first he was extremely scared, and could not be handled, now
he is very friendly with me, the apples played a big roll in gaining his confidence.
He can not really fly, but is a very fast runner, and climber, however when I go outside with him, he stays on my shoulder, or arm.
He is a very well behaved bird, but to go into details might be long, and maybe later in another topic.

 

[Scott]

Seems you have a great bond with George, so the exact species isn't that important!

 

[takito]

Well that is true, thanks

 

[takito]

Just thought I would share this , as part of my introduction.
Most of my life has been spent in very rural areas, I do not do well at all in cities,
Any way, this is my back yard,... when I took these photos, it was very nice year
we had a lot of rain, and everything was very "abundant", green , ... this year it is very dry,
and it is kind of a struggle, it is very hard finding the kind of grass my parrots like, as well as
other herbs, and plants that help keep them healhy, combined with the fact that the pump
for the water well that the pueblo uses, the pump burned up and we had a couple of months
with no running water. There is a river, and lake not very far away, but one has go there and
get the water,... makes it hard to keep a good garden going. Any way this is what the back yard
looks like when it is nice:

As you can see , there really is no where the parrots would go ,very close. but the smaller ones
like the conrues, and love birds, are to easy of prey, and there are many preditors, cats , dogs, coyotes, owls and hawks, further into the hills , there are even some types of "wild cats", ...
So the smaller parrots stay inside , most of the time, some times I do take them out, for walks, and they stay with me, this was especially when they were younger, the problem with the conrues is they can "spook" so easy, and can fly away pretty far, being green, and when it is green every where, makes it hard to find them and they seem to really enjoy a "hide and seek" sort of game, but it is to risky, I don't take them out any more,.. the room they have is plenty big enough ,and they can fly around safely, etc. It even has a "sky light" in the roof so plenty of sun gets in,... maybe I will post some photos of that later.
But any way, for now that is about it.
==== edit ======
The macaws, since there are much bigger, do go out side a lot, but I still keep a close watch as well, they like to go up into a tree, and stay pretty close to the house,..the pueblo (village) it's self is pretty small, everyone knows who they belong to, and also most of the people are scared of them, so someone stealing one is pretty unlikely. Guako and Hilda , both are very easy, and friendly with me, but neither one will let a stranger touch them, just like young children, I think it is important they understand and do not let strangers get close to them,... on the other hand, with my family, wife, granddaughter and a few close friends, they are friendly and don't get upset.

 

[MonicaMc]

George is a white fronted amazon that has bleached feathers.

The macaws are *most likely* military macaws, one also with bleached feathers.


Unfortunately, it's a common method in an attempt to increase the value of birds to unsuspecting people... and many birds die due to the effects of the bleaching (and dyes). They might not die immediately, but could die later on.


Bleaching and Painting of Parrots - City Parrots -
Wildlife traffickers bleach parrots to increase value - City Parrots -
Don't buy the blond bird - City Parrots -


Apologies for reviving an older thread, but I thought the information may be important.

 

[takito]

Well, thanks for the information, George, is now flying, and seems to be in excellent health, he also still looks the same, so I don't know on him. In the links you showed, there is a photo of what a white fronted amazon should look like, and also what the dyed/bleached birds look like, I could see how George does sort of look like those, but he does not really look the same as those either.
I will get some current photos, any way,.. it has been over a year, and he still looks the same.
Guako also is flying and in good health, but yes all the yellow disappeared, he looks pretty much just like Hilda, in fact sometimes it is hard to tell them apart, except that he has a distinct "character", and it is easy to know it is him, by his behaviour. Hilda got renamed, she is now called "burra", the name change started because Guako, started calling her "Burra", she responds to the name, and will, "point" at Guako, and say Guako, guako mio...(guako is mine)
It bothers me to know this, I really care a lot for all 3, and find the thought they will die disturbing, I mean a un natural premature death, everything, including me will "pass on" one day, I imagine the Macaws will actually outlive me, but now I am not so sure, how ever like I said, they all seem to still be very healthy. ...
When I was very young, (another topic) but, any way, I had a accident occur, a 500 gallon tank of gasoline, got turned over, it was open, I was under the "stand" it was on, about 10 feet above me,
500 gallons of gasoline got dumped on me, totally drenched in it,... and 60 years later , still in good health. Also when I was about 20, I fell into a tank of cresote, that was worse then the gasoline, maybe me and my parrots are just lucky ?
I stumbled on to this when I was browsing online, it is a interesting article, :
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/magazine/what-does-a-parrot-know-about-ptsd.html
Any way thanks for sharing the info.
Any way, this dying and painting them sound terrible, I did not know about that,

 

[ChristaNL]

Is Georges foot alright? (second picture here)
Missing nails happen, but that is a very swollen toe (right foot, outside front toe)

I love your birds btw



I wish mine had all that space to play around in!

 

[Scott]

Thanks for the update, your area is beautiful! You are certainly a survivor, given those unfortunate accidents.