Course 2: Happy Parrot, Happy Home

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When your bird is happy, you’re happy, right? This course of articles provides tips to helps you understand your feathered friend better. It gives insights on how to give your bird a happy life and also how your bird can help you! Once you absorb all this great knowledge, test yourself with the quiz. Just click the quiz button below!

African grey parrot perched atop cage

Stress Reduction For Companion Parrots

To put it bluntly, keeping companion parrots is similar to trying to pound a square peg into a round hole. The fact that they do as well as they do is testimony more to their adaptability than it is to our husbandry efforts.

close up on face of a blue-fronted Amazon parrot looking straight at the camera

Do Parrots Get Depressed?

Behavior offers clues on your bird’s mental state. Lack of appetite, feather picking, and changing habits might indicate an emotional struggle.

close up on face of a brown dog from the nose up

Birds And Other Pets: Why You Need To Be On Guard

If you share your home with companions of both the feathered and furred kind, you might long to see your pets hang out together and be best friends. But before you do, these real-life situations prove that the hazards are real and the consequences potentially tragic.

Amazon and African grey parrots perched on metal food bowls

Healthy Habits We Can Learn From Our Birds

Looking for some healthy habits to try in the year ahead? Good news! Chances are you have your very own health coach living with you right now — look no further than your feathered friend!

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