Who's smelling your bird?

[Mango121913]

I think I'm addicted to Mango's. ........smell?:54:
Mango is always getting real close to my nose when he snuggles. Is it weird that all my family love to bury their nose in Mango's neck and, um, sniff?!:30: Yep, bunch of weirdos here! Pretty sure the neighbors saw me sneaking a sniff Saturday!

Love the nutty, fruity scent he has. Today he even had a cinnamon smell too. I'm happy he's fine with me ( and everyone else) smelling him too!

After all, he's fascinated by people's faces. He has to get right up in them and stare!


Wonder how many "sniffing weirdos" are on here?

 

[veimar]

I know! LOL My birds don't smell when dry, but after a shower they smell so good! I give them kisses and sniff the wet feather smell! I thought I was really weird and didn't even post about this!

 

[Amanda_Bennett]

I'm a Zilla sniffer! I love the way she smells! Especially a couple hours after a bath when she is just getting dry!

Of course she thinks when I sniff her it's my way of starting a game of her kissing my whole face!

 

[RavensGryf]

* Robin my Red Bellied parrot is the only one who's smell I love. Although it's subtle, and I can't always detect it.

* Griffin the Ruppell's is also a Poicephalus, but has NO smell. :19:

* Raven the BW Pionus... We have to call him Mr. Stinky. Pionus have the same sort of scent that Amazons have, that they seem to "puff" out during times of excitement or with certain emotions the way zons do. We think he smells musty. Not musky, but musty. Just as with Amazon sniffers, there are Pionus sniffing afficionados as well. I just don't understand.... Unless the Pionuses and Amazons I've smelled are just different from all the rest! I've heard people describe it as flowery, but it's really more like a dirty wet towel left in a plastic bag for a week...

* Twigs... I admit I never even tried to smell the Budgie. :52:

 

[Mango121913]

* I've heard people describe it as flowery, but it's really more like a dirty wet towel left in a plastic bag for a week...

* Twigs... I admit I never even tried to smell the Budgie. :52:

Dirty, wet towel in a bag for a week?! WoW:52:!


Now you're gonna have to tell me, does Twigs stink too?

 

[DoodlesMom]

Face it...we're ALL guilty of stealing a sniff of "AUE DE PARROT"! Doodle is always rubbing her head on my face......I love smelling her.

Can't describe her scent....it just smell clean..in a odd sort of way. :smile033:

 

[RavensGryf]

* I've heard people describe it as flowery, but it's really more like a dirty wet towel left in a plastic bag for a week...

* Twigs... I admit I never even tried to smell the Budgie. :52:

Dirty, wet towel in a bag for a week?! WoW:52:!


Now you're gonna have to tell me, does Twigs stink too?

Not that I know what that smells like (the towel) as I'm just imagining!!

Twigs is too wild to let me smell him lol.

 

[Allee]

I confess! I love the way my quakers and my cockatoo smell. My cockatiel doesn't have much of a smell and my budgies would have a fit if I tried to sniff them.

 

[Scott]

Guilty as charged... I love them all!!

Gonzo the Amazon smells like flowers....
All of the Goffins remind me of baby powder....
ET the TAG has a musty odor reminiscent of a macaw....
Both Citrons are pleasantly aromatic....
Angel the Vos Ekkie is more subtle but fruity....
Big Bird the Moluccan is the least enjoyable but moderately fragrant.

 

[JerseyWendy]

Wonder how many "sniffing weirdos" are on here?

Count me as one of those 'sniffing weirdos', too. :09: I could 'inhale' Amazon all day long, in fact I wish someone would market their scent - I :smile015: so much!

....I also like the smell of (my) wet dogs. Is that weird enough yet? :54:

 

[Sunset_Chaser]

I'm guilty too, I love the way my b&g Bella smells, she likes to cuddle right up under my chin and preen my face. Macaws smell so good wet too.....

 

[labell]

I do like Brady's amazon musk but the eclectus fruity smell I love. That is one way you know that you are feeding your eclectus right they should have a fruity sweet smell to them.

 

[katie_fleming]

Jasper smells like a wet dog after showers! He stinks!

But when he's dry his beak smells like maple syrup, and I'm not the only one to notice! I tell him he smells yummy haha

 

[getwozzy]

Yep, I'm a bird sniffer too....and my husband lol Chili has a sweet chalky smell- she let's me shove my nose in her neck feathers lol

 

[41Gryphon]

Inca smells so irresistibly sweet. xD It was the first thing I noticed about him when I picked him up from the breeder, and that smell hasn't changed a bit since. It always reminds me of that happy day.

 

[Rubytheeccie]

Lmao so I'm not the only weirdo that smells my parrots lol
My Eckie has a musty scent but today she had a bath and smelt a lil sweeter
Not sure on my yellow sided conure as she is maybe too young to have a scent yet but I still sniff her just I case I miss it lol

 

[strudel]

Chili has a sweet chalky smell

My girl reminds me of baby powder. I like the way she smells. She doesn't get stinky like my dogs, either, she always smells the same.

I don't know how the others smell. They aren't as tame, I don't think they'd want a nose coming at them, they'd freak out.

 

[SilverSage]

Lol I do it. Just when I typed that Cache fluttered over (her first deliberate, non-panicked, obviously intentional and direct flight just because she wanted to move!!!!!! *mini celebratory dance*) and I picked her up and smelled her, she smells sweet and kind of dusty.

The funny thing was when we got Battle, our newest tiel, my husband was holding her. Now, he is not a bird person, but he is slowly being corrupted. He picked Battle up and snuggled her to his face and then declared "You smell like Lili!" Lili is a cockatiel belonging to the member named amjokai, a good friend of mine. I actually own Lili's parents, Lakota and Chinook. Lili is JOsh's favorite cockatiel, but I didn't know he had been smelling her!

 

[dazg]

My Jasper is 13 weeks old just got him from breeder and he wont eat much veg yet but loves grapes and apple. Mainly has seed diet which I know isnt great but it has no sunflowers or peanuts in the mix. What would you advice as easy veg to try next and fruit for that matter?

 

[GaleriaGila]

Now THIS is what I call a real bird-lovers' thread! LOVE IT!

In my experience with other people's birds...

Cockatoos and 'tiels smell like clothes that have dried on a clothesline in the sun (as I recall it from the days when my grandmother used that technique long ago).

Macaws... like various sweet thing...

Amazons... yeah, kinda musky and sometimes like a Caesar Salad.

And my own Patagonian Conure... if your snuggling under his wings, he smells like the WRAPPERS on chocolate bars.

Great thread!