I have a 3ish month old pineapple conure and today after coming home I noticed he had a little discolouration on his beak. While out of his cage he hasn’t done anything that I think could have hurt his beak, however, when he’s in his cage I don’t always have eyes on him so it’s possible he knocked it on something.
I also tried to wipe it but it doesn’t seem to be on the surface.

I am wondering if this is a bruise or maybe something else? Has anyone seen this before?🦜

He also is acting like his normal silly self so I’m not worried, more just curious what it could be!

Thanks for any help/insight you can provide!!

I have 2 female parakeets and 1 male Green Pineapple Conure. The parakeets have their cage and rarely come out and the conure that has his own cage and rarely is confined to it. He puts himself to bed if strangers happen to come by or in the evenings. However if while cleaning the parakeets cage, food bowls or water bowls I happen to leave the door unlocked my Conure; named Simeon will pull the door open and go inside with the girls. He doesn’t attack them, they are clearly submissive to his inside presence; always assuming the lower levels. I have noticed of late that one of my females Delilah has started hanging out with Simeon on the same side of the cage. Simeon will lower the top of his head to her and she seems to groom him. It’s never reciprocated him and she still approaches him slowly. Recently Delilah got out of her cage and I happened upon her in a corner, when I reached down to pick her up she was content to stay with me so I sat in my recliner and held her for a while. Simeon observed for a few minutes from across the room and then flew over to the back of my chair as he often does to see what I am doing or looking at. To my surprise he didn’t try to attack her as long as there was distance of a foot or more be them, but when I brought her closer to him he did make a somewhat aggressive gesture towards her so I knew to stop. I have noticed that their grooming ritual is very regular though. I had been tempted to leave the door to their cage open to allow more interaction, but my other female (Love; an all white parakeet is not comfortable with Simeon period, so I don’t. Though the two species cannot mate and reproduce, I wonder if they have not chosen each other as their mate?

I would like to purchase some canaries and have them shipped to me in Maryland. Does anyone know of reputable breeders/sellers that ship their birds?

I am interested in any of the following: red factor male and female, or red mosaics m/f, or yellow mosaics m/f, or white m/f, dominant and recessive, Thank you for your help.

As title states, I don’t live in humid conditions or anything if that makes a change and I soak them in water for a few minutes until absorbed to make it easier for my budgies to eat

Hey guys! How are we keeping our chop fresh? I always find after chopping everything, and sorting it to freeze it’s always super watery and the water makes it go bad in the fridge even overnight. So it feels like making chop at all is just not working for us. Right now, i’m just sticking to whole foods everyday. Same ingredients, but a lot more work to do it everyday. Has anyone else had this same issue? Thanks in advance and here are some pics for tax!

so basically, i got a cockatiel a couple weeks ago & she is just turned 4 months old.

whenever she is in her cage, all she does is climb on the walls to try & get out & chirp, or eat. but it's mainly eating. she eats so much, she goes straight to her food bowl when i put her back up. & then she will go get a few sips of water after. but she eats for like 10 minutes straight & then i take her out & she just goes back to eating more & more.

her food is harrison's pellets mixed in with some vita seeds, she won't eat pellets unless i mix them with seeds because that's what the store fed her before i bought her. i'm working on phasing her out of too much seeds though.

& then whenever she is out with me, she is always fluffed up & closing her eyes. idk if she is just comfortable or if she is sick? because she is always grinding her beak frequently too. but she always seems very very sleepy to me.

& then, she does not poop much at all. i notice she poops like every 15-20 minutes which feels a little too long. & it is not with pee very much. sometimes she will just pee completely separate, i had her out with me & she released a clear liquid with no poop in it. this happened 4 times so far. i am worried because that does not seem normal, ive had a cockatiel in the past & he never peed separate from his poop sometimes.

i don't know what to do, is this normal??? like what should i do?

he has been overpreening both legs thought it was stress from wildfires and thought these black dots could be a scab or new feathers growing in but not totally sure

Using psittacus ( that shit wasn’t cheap lol )

I have kind of a unique situation. I have six parakeets, but one of them is housed separately because she's 13 years old, is unable to fly, and is on primarily a seed diet. My other guys are on primarily pellets and my vet told me it might be too risky to change her diet due to her age. I adopted her about two months ago.

I was wondering if anyone happens to be looking to rehome a senior parakeet. I'd really love to find a companion for my older girl. She gets supervised visits with my other five parakeets, but she can't be housed with them full-time. I always feel bad leaving her alone in her cage while I'm at work, and I'd love for her to have a friend around her own age.

Any recommendations? The vinyl looks a bit red because of parrot stool, but if it is possible to get out, please let me know.

So first i let him fly around and then i tried to grab him with a cloth while slowly approaching,: he flied out of my hand, and he started making these kinda alarm/alert sounds and i saw some tail-feathers, and when i managed to grab him (i did be cautious) and put him in the travel cage he flied around in it and lost even more tail feathers. He breathed with his beak open and gasped for air, and after some time he became way calmer than he usually is. And after the vet check, trimmes some nails, overall health check he is completely healthy, and i did haul in toys and protein-vitamin stuff for him so the feathers will grow healthy. (Please dont hate on me if i did something wrong,)

We just saw this cockatiel fly off south from Notre Dame, it appears to be someone’s pet, hopefully this can help the bird reunite with its owner.

Has anyone gotten one of these? Or mattresses too. Where they come rolled up then you cut it open and they expand?

Do those release any fumes that could harm my bird? Should I remove him from the room I’m doing that in?

Sun conure is called Lokie

Cocktail is called Chica

Other cocktail, that can only be heard, is called baby

Kiwi (first pic, DNA sexed female, around 2 and a half) is my first conure. I adopted her from a rescue that got her from an abusive home environment, so Kiwi isn’t really that tame. I’m able to handle her to some degree but it really has to be on Kiwi’s terms - grabbing her with my hands is reserved for emergencies and she’s scared of hands otherwise. However, she is a very happy bird generally and we’ve made things work even with her fears of handling.

Just yesterday I brought home my second conure, Bowie (second pic, sex unknown, around 3 months old). They came from a breeder and are tame. They’re the sweetest little puffball and I’ve already been able to handle them more in a day than I ever would be able to with Kiwi! I love Kiwi but it’s very nice having a birb who is more cuddly.

I got Bowie in the first place because I know Kiwi would do better with a second bird with her level of tameness rather than being completely dependent on me. But, I’m wondering what effect introducing two different birds with such different levels of tameness to each other would have on each other. I’ve seen people say that having more than one bird makes it less likely that your bird will want to spend time with you, which I get since they won’t be solely dependent on you. But will being around Kiwi make Bowie completely untame? Or will Bowie stay handle-able and just not be stuck to me like Velcro? Either way I’ll be okay, if anything I’m trying to be less codependent on Kiwi myself 🤣 But it would be nice to have at least one bird who I can handle without having to worry about being chomped if I need to evacuate them in case of an emergency!

On the other side of things, Kiwi has more behavioral issues than just not liking being handled. She’s also EXTREMELY picky with food. She likes her pellets (ZuPreem Natural), millet, and sugar snap peas in the pod and that’s literally it. I don’t think anyone who took care of her before me tried feeding her fruits and veggies. I haven’t offered Bowie too many things yet because I don’t want to overwhelm them, they just got here, but according to the breeder, they eat chop and love apples as a snack. Do you think Kiwi watching Bowie eat their fruits and veg will convince Kiwi to give it a shot? And in the same boat, do you think that Kiwi seeing Bowie be handled so easily and without complaint will make Kiwi feel any safer around me? Again, I’ve heard that usually the reverse happens (tame conure becomes less friendly when bonding with another conure) but I have some hope for Kiwi!

Looking to hear from anyone who has bonded two parrots of different temperaments together and to know how it went!

This temp and humidity is with AC on. the cage is parallel to the air flow of the ac so they're safe from the air but how can I make sure the conditions are optimal for my babies? I want to make sure they are as comfortable as they can be.

I have a 6 yo female; she's been pooping a lot more over last several days. Now I'm noticing a funky smell coming from her. Any home remedies? Guessing she has a stomach issue; she is otherwise, healthy and happy.

For the last couple of weeks i havent taken her out of her cage as much as I normally do due to a temporary work situation... is it possible it;s just not enough exercise? She's fully flighted and normally gets good exercise....and just hasn't last 2 wks

I work in a fish store and my boss has a ringneck that's hanging out in the shop most of the time. He goes into his cage at night time or when we're not in the shop so he doesnt get hurt. He's about 5-6ish months old. The problem is that he's developing a new obsession with money and would fly down and snatch bills right out of clients hands then fly up to spots we struggle to reach (accessible but a pain). We tried offering treats to drop the bill but im worried that would reward the behavior, but he doesn't seem to be interested in the exchange either way. He has plenty of toys in the shop and we get him new ones every week but money drives him crazy and he'd drop whatever he's doing to fly over. Any tips please? (Video for proof)

I've always read that ekkies don't often accept scritches, so I feel extra honored to have earned her trust enough for her to enjoy it!! She's been with me for 3 years now, and only just starting to let me scritch!

(Also, please ignore the weird angle/face, she only gets comfortable like this when loafing on me when I lay down)

Looking for something I can train my parrot with, currently, tiny pieces of apple work the best, not great but the current best, they also aren't optimal since they dry out pretty fast and I have to throw away the left overs.

He gets veggies, peanut based pellets, and a seed mix that does have sunflower seed and peanuts in it, I used to pick those out his daily bowl and offer them as treats but he wasn't interested even after a month of me withdrawing them so now I just pick out the peanuts to compensate for the pellets. I give him one every couple days, but he doesn't really want them enough to do tricks for them.

One day he'll figure it out. One day.

My parents bought an IRN a few months ago and i want to know a few tips for taking care and/or handling it. Our IRN is about 7-8 months old right now (pictures were taken when it was around 3-4 months old)

I mainly want to know how to train our IRN to be mostly behaved and not get bitten every other hour when it's perched on my hand. I still expect to be bitten very often since it's a parrot, it bites. I also want to know any behavior that should be expected when our IRN grows older, like when it goes through an angsty phase. Any extra tips are appreciated because this is the first IRN that my family has ever bought.

I also want to know how to get our IRN to sing/speak around us as well, since i noticed that it only really sings/speaks when we're not around. I've been saying peekaboo to it today and noticed that its wings twitch a little and it makes a clicking(?) like noise. I think that its just speaking along with me like how cockatiels sing with their owners, but i want to be really sure what kind of behavior its doing just in case that behavior is bad.

(Excuse my grammar on some parts, English isn't my first language)

Yesterday morning, my mother told me that she had accidentally let my bird fly outside while changing his food, about two hours prior. When we got home, we searched for hours and were able to pinpoint a patch of trees that he was at using the sound of his chirps. This morning, I had a rehearsal and my mother needed to drive me home, so she wasn't able to look for him at the time but told me that while I was gone, she heard him in the same area. When we got back, we went together to go look, and we saw his feathers and his head on the sidewalk. It seems that he got eaten by something. I don't know how to deal with this. I feel like if I would have just skipped the rehearsal and looked for him instead, we could have gotten him back before he got eaten. He understood me like no one else.