Pet Forum / Birds / Birds / May 2006

i have a 1 yrs old parakeet. he has a problem with rubbibg his sere on
his cuttlebone until his sere is almost gone. now he has some crusty
looking stuff forming around his eyes and feet. any ideas what is wrong
and how to take care of it?

Can anyone tell me if such a bird breed exists and if so, where I can find online references?
I couldn't find anything through Google but maybe I was not looking in the right place or maybe there is an analogous name.
(Please reply here.)
Mark

can someone shed some light on this problem.  My canary is eight years
old.  He has always sang remarkably.  When we left him for a week or
two we had him cared for and when we returned he always continued to
sing.

I can't remember.  Does anodized cookware
(specifically cuisinart, caphalon) contain PTFE or whatever
the dangerous ingredient in teflon is?
Thanks for any information.

I just wanted to share the news that we adopted a 2 year old Goffin
cockatoo named Madison.  He is a cute little thing compared to our big
boy Buddy.  He came from a home where the woman's daughter is going to
have a baby and well it seems that the bird had to go. (sigh)

It had a reddish/orange cap on it's head, bright yellow breast and
belly with black back and wings that had white specks on them?  I tried
to attach a pic, but not sure how?
thanks in advance!

Hi Everyone. I have a hopefully easy question about a Scarlet Macaw- my
friend who has this bird is planning on moving from the Tampa Bay area
(Florida) to Maine in the US. We've been arguing whether the bird can
live in such a cold climate. I say "no", having been raised in the

I just put a live webcam on a very nice robbin's nest.
Please check it out between 6 AM and 9 PM Eastern Standard Time (has to
be light)
the nest has four eggs and should hatch in about two weeks.

My Mom's friend gave me an older budgie, and now she's suddenly sick.
I don't know what she has, but her bottom/rectum is bloody and
protruding, her feces has blood in it, and she has very little energy.
At 1st, I thought she was constipated until I saw how badly her bottom

Hi!  I just joined this group today and thought I would just introduce
myself and my birds.  My name is Terri and live in PA.  I have a flock
of 4 birds and they are Buddy, my umbrella cockatoo.  We rescused him 3
years ago from a very horrible home.  He was beaten, starved and only

My friend wanted to create a calendar with pictures of her bird so I
snapped some shots with my nikon d100 digital slr. Aren't they cute?
The yellow one has since escaped and never returned. :(
http://www.paulstravelpictures.com/Parakeet-Pet-Bird-Pictures/index.html

I have a male canary who when we go up to the cage somethings looks at
you, squats down, fluffs up and slow opens his beak at you.  Is this
territorial and/or agressive behaviour?  Does anyone else see this in
their own canaries.  I have another canary in the aviary who is the

My 7 year old sun conure recently wounded herself in the upper chest area &
started bleeding.  We rushed her to a vet (not Avian...it was a Saturday
morning...closest one is over an hour away) and they patched her up with
tissue glue.  She was healing nicely, but just couldn't leave ...

I'm think my 6 yr old budgie may have fractured his wing. It seems
loose and he keeps it further from his body than the other. He flew
into a mirror the other day, so it is possible that he could have hurt
himself. I was wondering if a broken wing needs a vet and if there is

Tomorrow night is set to be the first night of my
"life with Too". My nervousness is apparent in
everything I do......
I spent weeks debating, read all the articles