Articles related to "Parrot Pet"

The gorgeous, unique Eclectus parrot can be a gentle and entertaining pet, but requires a specialized diet to thrive.

Everyone's seen shoulder parrots in pirate movies. Letting pet parrots sit on your shoulder is a dangerous practice that can lead to parrot bites.

African grey parrots are the blabbermouths of the pet bird world. Recognized as the most skillful of talking parrots, the grey is sensitive and thrives on attention.

Bird toys come in a variety of materials. Plastic toys or wood toys, which is appropriate for your parrot and why?

When deciding on a parrot or pet bird cage, it is important to look at the overall size, the bar thickness, the bar spacing and whether or not there is a play area.

Buying a Molucaan cockatoo or umbrella cockatoo may be tempting, but large pet parrots have wild parrot instincts that land many pet cockatoos in bird rescue sanctuaries.

Feeding seed diets is not appropriate for parrots and other psitticine birds. Formulated diets are more complete. Foraging is a valuable tool in feeding pet birds also.

There are many bad reasons to buy a parrot, whether the bird is a little sun conure or a giant macaw. Here are a few reasons not to purchase a pet parrot.

Pet stores and bird mills may try to sell you unweaned parrots at a discount. Unless you're an experienced hand feeder, don't try hand feeding baby parrots.

Parrot and pet bird toys are expensive; making your own toys can help greatly reduce the cost.

Feather plucking in pet birds is usually a symptom of an underlying problem. Figuring out what that problem is and treating it is the best way to stop plucking behavior.

Whether parrot owners should clip a bird's wings or not is a controversial topic in aviculture. Clipping wings reduces some dangers, but is a fully-flighted bird happier?

The type of food that you feed your pet bird today will affect its health later in life. Make sure your parrot is getting the right mix of seed, pellet and fresh foods.

There are four basic categories that you should research in order to ensure that you are choosing a pet bird who you take care of and love for years to come.