We have parrots and when you have parrots, there's always a party

Me, Rani Macaw, the big red bird and kaley corgi, the short legged dog!  Mum puts me on the chair and I like to walk down to the dog.  She tolerates me and I like to  hang out with her, for no apparent  reason!!!

The mom here loves to take pics….but lately the pics have been sorta…………awful……???!!!???  She got the new camera, a  G 12 but I guess she has yet to learn how to take the  nice pics  she used to.  However,  even if the pics are  a bit odd in color and blurry, you do get the hint, a corgi and a macaw can be couch friends!!!

Beakie kisses from the macaw…do you dare?

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Every now and then mom takes pics of the cutie pie parrots………the small ones, just cuz they are cute!  Me, Jordan, the African Grey is the not so cute, but  personality with lots to talk  about around here!!!

Anyways, enjoy the cute pics for the day’s blog!! They do have their  place in this parrot flock!

beakie kisses!!!

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Dear Jordan,

I have an African Grey of around 17.  For no reason she just falls off her perch with a crash – yesterday she did it twice.  Any comments please I am worried she will break something.

Very Worried

Dear Very Worried,

I can understand why you might be worried when your parrot seems to fall off the perch for no known reason.  You did not mention when this happens…. does it happen at night when all is silent and dark?  Does it happen in full day light and the normal activity of the day is happening?

There are quite a few parrots in this house and overall, no one falls off their perch on a regular basis for any concern, but sometimes one will fall to the perch bottom with a thud but quickly climbs back up.  In the night time, the cockatiels have been known to suddenly fall while fluttering in the cage and sometimes break a feather or two in the process.  Cockatiels have what is called, night fright and are a bit hyper anyways…………….according to me!!!

Seems as though through the years,  I get a letter…………….or two of parrots falling off their perch. Please read the blog question/answers I have shared in the  past.

Here are a few things that might cause your parrot falling…

• are the nails recently clipped and too short?
• did you change bird cages and how safe is the paint that is used in the cage… lead and zinc can be the caused for your parrot falling
• did you change perches and your  parrot is not  used to the new ones?

Hopefully you are able to find the cause of your parrot falling off the perch, but you might find it a  help to keep perches low and to make sure nothing is in the way of a fall if it happens.  Keep a soft towel or paper towels on the cage bottom to cushion the fall.

Good luck and keep me inform if I may be of further help.  Always remember there should be a good bird vet on hand for professional advise.

parrot snoozin’ and keeping both feet wrapped tight on the perch!!!

Jordan beakie kisses!!!

zinc and lead poisoning

parrots falling off perch…sansanparrots blog 2008

my amazon falls off her perch…sansanparrots blog 2009

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I am the African grey in this  household and I think I hold the smartest category here.  In a mix of  other parrots…conure,  cockatiel,  amazon…and  even the smart green wing macaw………I am the smartest!

You might be grey, but I am an African grey….smarter than you!

Researchers have found that  us  greys are as smart as a five year old.  That means I am still smarter than the human kid here, who is not even four years old, and the humans keep  saying to each other, how smart he is!!!

I am  certainly the most  animated and talkative.  I can pick up anyone’s voice to a perfect  tone.

Tests done by Irene Pepperberg, a comparative psychologist at both Brandeis and Harvard,  says we can comprehend questions and give the correct answers.

“They understand things like categories of color, material and shape, number concepts, and concepts of bigger and smaller, concepts of similarity and difference, and absence; things we once thought that a bird could not comprehend, these parrots are showing us it’s possible,” says Pepperberg in a story published by the National Science Foundation.

In the lab, Pepperberg conducts experiments with the African greys involving shapes, and when shown  a  square,   the correct answered is  responded by the grey as,  “four corners.”

I might not know my shapes, but I know how to ask for food.  “Yum, yum” is what I shout out!  There is no starving an  African grey in this house!

I think it is very interesting us African greys are so smart and  there are  a few humans out there that set out to learn and understand us.

Beakie kisses!!! ..  the smart bird!!!

full  story here

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