r/parrots

This is my budgie clover and he is turning 3 years old in October. I weighed him today and he weighs 48 grams. He’s a very confident flier and he enjoys exercising. I have another budgie called cosmo (same age) and weighs 37 grams. Cosmo struggles to fly due to wing damage from a young age so doesn’t get as much exercise, however he weighs less. I feed them both trill, egg food and spinach/any other veggies I have. They always have access to fresh water everyday. There hasn’t been any concerning symptoms as he seems happy and healthy. Please let me know if clover looks unhealthy and give me some tips if needed. Thanks.

Occasionally an evil entity is believed to stalk the upper floor….

Me and my partner are buying his dad a new bird (as the other one sadly passed away) to keep this one company.

I was wondering if anyone would be able to identify what breed this bird is (and maybe the gender but it might be hard from the picture) and if anyone can recommend what kind of bird would be suitable to get?

Any advice would be great! :)

I've had a blue-headed conure for almost a year, and I've noticed a peculiar behavior: he's afraid of surfaces.
It almost seems like he doesn't want to familiarize himself with the room. Every time he leaves his cage (very often), he flies either at me, the TV, or on top of the cage.
As long as he is handled or is in one of his favorite places (as in the photo) he is calm, but as soon as I put him on the desk, on the table, on the bookcase or on any other surface he stiffens and gestures with his foot as if he wants to climb onto my finger.
He very rarely interacts with objects in the room, unlike other parrots who may hide, destroy furniture, eat books, and make a mess.
Is it a prerogative of the species, his personality or I can act in a way to make him open up more to what surrounds him?

Should I get him a friend? He yells when I leave the room and then stops after a while but I feel bad when I go to work that he’s maybe lonely

My first/last gal was a rescued senior, so I filled a box with something heavy (books??? Really don't recall) to be a front porch to help. I put the old tough curtain fabric to make it more cleanable. Now, I've got a young rescue, but she likes her front porch too!

Hi all

I was thinking of getting rid of my conure Peter so called around to see if anyone I knew wanted one. I phoned one and showed her my Peter and the first thing she said is he looked unwell (hasn't had a bird and doesn't know what she wants)

I am in no way the best when it comes to providing him with everything but I don't think I'm the worst the comment has made me feel like I've failed in looking after him when for my first bird I've tried my best.

Opinions on Peter are welcome thank you.

So a few months ago I almost lost my baby to metal poisoning.

One of the signs were leg banging. He banged his leg on the perch.

I changed his food bowls, I buy special toys for him without any metals. I check up on him all of the time.

I wasn't home much for the past week but I made sure to check up on him all of the time and to watch him a sleep sometimes.

I noticed that because he is molting he is very itchy and very aggressive. He bites the cage a lot too... but I did not see him eating parts of the cage.

Today I came home from uni, and I played with him. He ate, he sang to me, we played and he was a bit aggressive.

I put him to bed, and after an hour or so wanted to go to bed too... now I see him banging his leg on the perch....

But I also see him scratching himself a lot... I am scared that he has metal poisoning again... I am so scared. I can not sleep.

meet mojo the alexandrine :3

he loves biting hard stuff and sleep, gets cuddly with me, routinely goes to bath like it's his religion and later you'd find him soaking some sunlight

sometimes I'd just roll him over and he'd just stay like that 😭