Question category: Behavior

Two male lovebirds mating

Hi I have three lovebirds, one is a Rosy-faced lovebird and the other is a Fischer lovebird, I didn’t know much about these birds before and they have a baby bird that is 1 year old now, I’m pretty sure it’s a boy, now lately I’ve seen his father and him mating when his mother […]

Health

I bought 2 cockatiels, 1 male and 1 female, from a store 10 days ago. They’re around 9-10 months old, (though I’m not exactly sure). The female was a bit sick when I got her—she’d been bullied by the other birds in the same cage and had some injuries around her eye. She was very […]

trouble with my conure

i have no idea how to make my bird love me more, i know i’m his favorite but i also want to be the person he’s most comfortable around, i don’t want him to be scared of my hands, and i want him to choose me over other people immediately, he’s not doing that and […]

Bird Type

I have a huge birdcage. It’s about 10 x 8. And it’s also deep. I want to get song birds so I can hear their songs. I want very small ones and not many so they will be free to fly. What kind should I get.

Aggressive Green Cheeks

I have 4 green cheek conures total. (1 male and 3 females) Mango, pebbles, Sunny and Turkey. Ive had them all for well over a year now and 2 of them have become bonded. (Mango and pebbles) This is their second clutch of eggs that they have laid now and i haven’t been keeping the […]

Budgie (nest box question)

Hello, I’m hoping you can help. To clarify, I am not a breeder, don’t believe in it, nor do I want to be. I have 4 pairs of rescues in large homes/cages. about 4 months ago I noticed (with letting all out together for their playtime) that there was a male with another one that […]

Keeping a breeding pair pionus as pets?

Dear Lafeber. We own a pair of Bronzewinged pionus parrots. Initially they were quite tame and interactive with us, however of the last three years they have become increasingly difficult to handle as hormones soar. They spent most of their days outside the cage, have good nutrition, we limit fruits and nuts but give them […]

Zebra finches compatibility

I have 5 zebra finches, 3 male and 2 female. I had 2 pairs in separate cages but one pair I lost the female. That left the male by himself for about 4 weeks till today as bought him another companion though male. He is younger than the other male aswell. Just wondering if they’ll […]

Lovebirds – Bonded Pair Overpreening

I have two male lovebirds that I adopted last September. They have been together for about 4 or 5 years since they hatched. They are brothers. The foster mom mentioned that the one overpreens the other and he has a bald spot on his head. They are out in the office with me and I […]

How do I introduce a friend?

Hi! My 2 year old green cheek conure, chino, might be getting a friend! He was raised with other birds when young and is pretty social with both other birds and people so I don’t see an issue in that, what I was wondering was how do I introduce this permanent resident? Chino is pretty […]

Cockatiel

My teil sits in her food bowl and she makes noises

Traumatised budgie

Micky has been ill ,so had to give him medication for 5 weeks.Having to get hold of him has left him so frightened.He is very quiet and not moving very much,but eating ok.He has never been a playfull budgie,so im thinking does he need a friend?

Cockatiel behavior

My bird shouts different noise loud all day,ca t stop him he’ll step onto a stuck but he’s not tame at 3years old he hisses at me when I try to touch him ,like he’s really stressed out ,what can I do it’s driving me crazh

Female LoveBird

My lovebird will be turning 1 this summer and she is very aggressive. She hates hands, but will fly onto your shoulder and won’t let you touch her. I have a male conure that she loves be with, but occasional they will get into fights. How do I stop this aggression?

New birds

Should you cover parakeets when you first bring them home

Sudden change in behavior

I have a 3year old euresian collar neck female dove named Ju-Ju that I have had since she was a few days old. For the past week she has been unable to sit still, constantly picking at the feathers around her legs and under her wings. She isnt pulling them out, just jabbing herself as […]

Cockatiel won’t get out of the nest

We have one cockatiel that has laid eggs and won’t leave the nest. She lives with a budgie. When we try teven look inside she gets aggressive. How do we get close enough to remove the eggs and nest?

Baby cockatiels

I have two baby cockatiels one is 4 weeks old the other is younger about 2 1/2-3 weeks old. The father plucked all feathers from 4 week old baby’s head. I took him out of the cage and now mom is alone in cage with them. Will she be able to care for the two […]

taking vacation

I have 2 parakeets that live outside of the cage. I have purchased a self feeded for food and water. They sleep in extra large plants that are ceiling high. I keep the top of the cage open which they use only for feeding. Last time I visited family back in May I took them […]

Aggressive biting

Hello, i’ve had my lovebird for about a year. I only have one and im not sure if its a male or female. The vet said that its a female but the pet shop said he’s a male. Anways, he only let me pet him and kiss him and hold him all the time. But […]

How to make my parrot stop biting

My grandma has a parrot, and he is really scared of hands from what I can tell, my cousins provoked him for a while, and ever since then he been reactive to hands in a horrible way. How can I make him calm down and be nice again? We are from Czech and he is […]

Cockatiel

We have a Cockatiel (Valentine) who is currently 29 years old..

Male cockatiel

I have two male cockatiels about a year apart and they have a very strong bond. The younger one does this thing where he sits in his little triangle hut, shakes (like he is cold but its not cold) and makes little pip squeak noises and the other one stands near him. Im assuming this […]

Aggressive blu parakeet

Hi , I got a 3 month old parakeet a while back. He is now 9 months older lad. He bites constantly and is aggressive. He has a large cage with his favorite toys. I have never chased him or forced him to do anything can you give me some advice

Introduction

Is it OK to introduce female lovebirds and eventually keep them together if they get along?

Why does my male bird bite me?

I’ve had my male cockatiel since he was 7 months old. He was very kind and easy in the beginning but when I moved back home, he started getting aggressive with me after trying to court my boyfriend’s female cockatiel. They’re not compatible at all as she attacks him when he’s near. They’re in separate […]

Nesting

My Indian ringneck is displaying nesting behavior. The problem is she is under the sofa and attacking us when we sit down. I have tried to block it off but isn’t working and I have tried giving her a box with paper but she isn’t interested.

Dive bomb

Do Zebra finches think it’s funny to dive bomb people

Cockatiel chicks

Hi I been keeping my babies separated in plastic bowls inside the brooder. I keep them apart because they are 2 days apart. The older one is significantly bigger then the other. So he bullies the other one. I don’t want to keep them in separates bowls anymore I want them to explore the brooder. […]

Mean baby

Hi I have incubated my birds eggs from the start. I have hand fed them from the start. But the 12 day old one seems to be mean. He/she hisses at me. It’s not a hunger cry because he/she’s crop will be full. He/she will stand on its feet and stretch its body upward to […]

Cockatiel singing

Hello. I have a 3-4 month old cockatiel who loves singing. He says peekaboo and a bunch of whistle sounds and makes kisses. But he won’t sing in front of anyone or outside his cage. I’ve hand raised him from day 1. Why could this be?

Budgie eggs

I have a pair of budgies in a single cage a few days ago I saw a broken egg shell inside the cage, today the female laid another egg however she didn’t sit on it while the male dropped the egg from the breeding box, what should I do?

Mating

I have my 2 indian ringnecks both 3 years old male they are showing sign that they want to mate because they are trying ti scratch their butt on the rope perch what will i do since they are both males? Thank you for answering.

My cockatiel won’t stop screaming when I leave the room/home

We have a relatively young, new cockatiel and after asking my parents to babysit overnight (put the bird in a new home for the day) I noticed that the bird has been screeching a lot more. The noise is very similar to a flocking call in sound, but it’s far louder and far more frequent […]

cockatiel

My bird must be thirty years old. For the past week he has been sleeping on the bottom of the cage. with ruffled feathers. He still comes up to eat. Does this mean he is on his way out? He seem extra tired. Not active today . He has no discharge at his beak and […]

Regurigation

Hi. One year ago we had bought a male love bird. From last one mothe he started regurigating over all the object he see and if we go near he attacked on us to bite can this be stoped or if continues is there and problem. As soon as he come out off the cage […]

Death of two female Parakeets.

After a couple of months, getting along beautifully, the female dies seemingly of a broken neck, no other marks on her. Waited a couple months before bringing home a new female, and they became even closer than the first. They did everything together and slept so close, they looked like one bird… They were inseparable. […]

Birds trying to nest?

My two cockatiels (one male and one female) have suddenly started obsessively shredding paper. I bought them a few months ago and both have relatively settled well (i.e. theyre properly eating, chirping/singing, flying around and coming back to their cage on their own). Since about a week now, ive noticed that the paper has bitten […]

Is my budgie being aggressive or is this normal behavior?

I had two budgies: one girl and one boy which lived together for 5 years. The girl passed a few days ago and I felt bad that my bird was alone now so I went to the pet store and got him a friend, also a girl. They are in the same cage and have […]

Owl finch plucked by others

I have 3 owl finches (rescues), I suspect all males. Michael, Buster and GOB. Michael has always been getting a bit plucked under the beak/neck by Buster, which surprised me because I thought they were paired (they sleep next to each other and GOB usually sleeps alone. Buster recently got a respiratory infection, and I […]

My cockatiel tries to bite my male cockatiel when he sings

I have had a male cockatiel for a little under one year now, he is finishing up his first molt. About 3 months ago, I got another cockatiel who is under a year old and I think is a female (still waiting for DNA testing). Sometimes, my boy will walk up to her with heart […]

Pet cockatiel

I work and was thinking about getting another bird for company for Ozzie ..will this affect our friendship?? Ozzie is a hand raised cockatiel?? The other bird is not

Male parakeet

Why does my male parakeet rub himself on top of my head & gives me love bites. All the female parakeets run away or peck him cuz he too aggressive & they hate him.

male budgie attacking a female budgie

hi we bought two budgies at a fair. we have two feeders. one day i saw the male budgie hitting the female one on the head because he wanted to get on the feeder that she was using. another time i saw that the girl budgie wanted to use the feeder where the male budgie […]

Going On Vacation For A Month

I am thinking on going on a vacation but it will be about 4 weeks long. My mother and father will be home for a whole week before they travel as well and will be able to feed change water and take him out everyday. After that for the next 3 weeks I will have […]

Acute egg laying!

I have a 3.5yr old female cockatiel abd she has developed the problem of acute egg laying. Every 2nd month she layes 3 eggs one after the other. What should I do about it? She doesn’t like being in cage and even we have made her roam around free in the house. So whenever I […]

2 month old lovebird screeching

I’m currently hand rearing/weaning a baby lovebird he is around 2 months old but he is stuck to me like velcro and screeches when he isn’t with me, is this normal? If not how do I go about correcting the screeching behaviour. I’ve also recently introduced him to his cage, if that has any contribution […]

Behavior and enrichment

Avi So my friend has two budgies in cage of 13x13x13 and they fear everything around them except him and their food and so watched on somewhere where they told me to put cardboard on sides of cages so I recommended him to do the same but I have budgies but I didn’t do it […]

4 month old conure

I have a 4 month old sun conure. I’ve had him for a few weeks now.I haven’t done a dna test yet so I’m not sure if it’s male or female but I call him “he”. A few day after I brought him home he became very attached to me. It’s almost impossible to have […]

My Celestial birds are fighting

I have 6 Celestial birds in a big avery, they all are good together, i added a couple of 2 where the one keeps on chasing the other and fighting and i really dont want to get rid of the couple

Shall I get my budgie a friend?

Greetings. I have a male budgie named Ki and I have him since he’s a baby, now he is 4 years old. I got him alone at first because I was spending my entire days in my room with him. He is not scared of my hands, he hops on me freely, but he is […]

Behaviour

I have a pair of budgie and their age Is under 9months i think And they bite me aggressively especially the male one so what is the reason behind this and their basic info is They live in 20x20x20 cage The shopkeeper told me to give millet as daily diet And i bought them 4 […]

Budgies fighting

We have two female budgies for a couple of months, they have been fine and seemed really bonded. Over the last few days days one of them has started being stroppy and will be aggressive to the other one. There are no eggs or places to lay them, it seems like the aggressive one seeks […]

My cockatiel won’t stop screeching for no reason

Hello 👋, so my cockatiel (Simmy, male, 1) is a good boy, he lives with 3 more cockatiels in one BIG cage, but 2 days ago he suddenly started to screeching like he was being ripped apart (in intervals of 20-30 minutes, sometimes less), he bites and hisses at me or attacks his friends if […]

female always kills its chick

Hi! From the Philippines. I used to have a pair of finches. A gray and a white. Since the seller of the white finch told us that it was ready to breed, I bought a fertility vit to laid eggs ASAP (its my first time to have a pet bird). After 2 months, it laid […]

15 year old hen laying every Spring

This hen has only raised 1 clutch successfully and does not have a bonded mate. However every Spring she lays a clutch of eggs in small spaces of the aviary. Should I put a nest box in or discourage her from laying. There are males in the cage.

Cockatiel differences

I have two male cockatiels and over the course of a few months I have had them in seperate cages. A month later they are in the same cage and are doing fine but recently they have started to fight now and again. They’ve always seemed to be fine in each others presence but now […]

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