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Bird Articles
Bird articles about Bird Care for Parrots, Finches, Canaries
Bird Care - Bird Foods
Types of Foods for various Birds - Cockatiels, Cockatoos, Parrots of all types and Canaries and Finches Food information |
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Keeping a Pet Lorikeet
This article gives lorikeet food and care instructions and information on how the Lorikeet is as a pet parrot. Lorikeets make fun pet birds. They can learn to talk and they jump and play around a lot. They will happily sit on your shoulder or arm but you must know about their special diet to keep them well. |
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Hints for Providing a Balanced Diet for Your Bird...
Offering a balanced diet is critical for your bird’s health. This article giving your the information of what foods is good for your birds' diet! |
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Feeding
Your Bird
Some are seedeaters, some are nectar feeders (eg lorikeets) while
some eat mainly fruit. So it is important to establish exactly what
your bird can and will eat. The main mistake bird-keepers make is
not feeding a balanced diet. For example... |
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Seeding
Grasses for our Birds
Anyone that watches birds would have noticed
different species on the ground, eating seeding grass heads. This
is part of a wild bird’s diet and the easy thing for birdkeepers
to do, is to buy processed bird seed. |
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Companion
Plants for Birds
If you have ever watched birds in the wild, you will find birds
are always around flowering trees and shrubs. Honeyeaters love the
pollen and nectar provided by native Australian flowering trees
and people wanting to attract birds to their garden, should consider
planting Australian native plants. |
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Poisonous
Plants - Do Not Feed to Birds!
Poisoning of pet birds by plants is rare. This is
reflected in the very small amount of information on this subject
in veterinary scientific journals and reference books. Most information
comes from North America, but applies to Australia because often
the same plants are grown here. This article lists only those plants
that occur in Australia. |
Bird Care - Pet Cockatiels
Cockatiels are one of the most commonly kept pet birds. With the correct care, a varied diet, exercise and the correct environment your bird can live for up to 30 years. These Cockatiel Care Articles are based on the latest research and information from veterinarians, Cockatiel food manufacturers and Cockatiel Breeders with many years experience and knowledge. |
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A Cockatiel's Care...
What do they eat? What do they need to live? What kind of food or vitamins they need? What to do if they sick?
Read this article and you will get information on how to take care your cockatiel.... |
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The
Cockatiel
Arguably more popular than the Budgerigar, cockatiels are popular
household pets in many parts of the world. Today all pet cockatiels
are bred in captivity, as Australia no longer permits the export
of native wildlife, whether endangered or not.... |
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SPROUTING SEED INFORMATION - Nutritious High Energy Natural Supplement for Breeding Birds
Provides your birds with a high energy, fresh, nutritious, easy to prepare food. The mix contains seeds and legumes including mung beans, sunflower seed, safflower, barley, corn, wheat, beans, lentils & peas with a variety of other high quality seeds. 19 in all! |
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Keep Your Bugs Out of Your Seed Drums...
If you talk to different aviculturists, they will describe many different strategies and insecticides that will help control the weevils and bugs that like to invade your seed storage drum. |
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Safe Toys for Your Birds
Providing toys for pet birds is an extremely important part of keeping them healthy. What kind of toys will be suitable, fun and safe for your birds to play with? Find out here... |
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A Budgerigar's Care...
What do they eat? What do they need to live? What kind of food or vitamins they need? What to do if they sick?
Read this article and you will get information on how to take care your budgerigar.... |
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WHAT TO DO IF YOU FIND A LORIKEET THAT CAN'T FLY?
Can the bird be cured? Is what he/she has contagious to birds or humans? Should the bird be set ‘free’?
What chance does the bird have of surviving?
Read this article and you find the answers... |
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Feeding Finches
It seems odd that the primary life supporting component of a finches existence is often the part that aviculturists will try to cut corners with. Without a suitable diet, birds will not perform as we expect them to. This is as relevant with undernutrition as it is with overnutrition. What is about to be presented is a critical (and often somewhat cynical) review of some components of finch nutrition that seem to always cause some confusion. |
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Birds Don't Just Eat Seed!
So what should they eat? Seed, pellets or something else? Did you know that more birds are seen by vets with dietary related diseases than any infectious disease? It is a fact that no bird lives on a dry seed diet in the wild. So why do we think that dry seed is a natural diet for them? |
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How to Get The Benefits of Extruded Pellets for Your Birds!
Birds, because they are creatures of habit, often need to be convinced that pellets are actually food. Birds take their cue for what is and what is not food visually – if they don’t recognise it as food they will not try it! |
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The Budgerigar 'MOP'
Budgerigar breeders sometimes find what is called a 'Mop' or 'Feather Duster' in one of their birds' nests. So, what is a mop? |
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The
Pet Directory Bird Training Step Up Stick
The StepUp Stick has many uses. It is particularly
useful for hand tamed birds. |
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Pet
Personality: George & Maureen Blair
George & I have always been avid bird lovers for as long as
we can remember. We originally moved to Sunnybank in Brisbane from
Wollongong in 1970 and immediately began our breeding ventures with
a few pair of Lovebirds and a garden shed in the back yard that
we divided into three bays. |
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Parrot
Playschool
Not that long ago, bird owner thought that all they needed to keep
their pet bird happy and healthy was a cage, seed and water. It
is now widely recognised just how intelligent the avian species
is and how much more we can offer the family feathered friend. |
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Which
Cage is Right for You?
When we make the decision to keep parrots in companion animal environments
we make the commitment to provide for them all of the essential
elements necessary for an optimum and enriched life. This commitment
starts with... |
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Dail
and Her Awesome Perfoming Alexandrine
Alexandrines are originally from Asia. One of the first parrots
to arrive in Europe was the Alexandrine named after Alexander The
Great, who opened the trade routes by which these regal birds were
imported to the West in the middle ages. The first records of these
beautiful creatures in captivity goes back to the 8th century. |
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Investigation
of Disease Outbreaks in Aviaries
This article is to
inform aviculturalists of the approach needed in deterring the reasons
behind such unwanted occurrences, so that a plan of treatment or
husbandry change may be made the role of the veterinarian in this
case is to make a diagnosis an commence appropriate therapy as soon
as possible. |
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Parrot
Fever
CHLAMYDIOSIS / PSITTACOSIS Also known as
“parrot fever”, Chlamydiosis is a disease caused by
a micro-organism called Chlamydia psittaci. If inhaled, it is usually
found in the lungs and air sacs. If ingested, it is usually found
in the liver, spleen, intestines and kidneys. |
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Chicken
Eatin' Parrots!
Feeding meat or meat products to farm animals may risk introducing
an exotic animal disease to Australia. Cattle, sheep or pig
meat or meat products fed to pigs may introduce diseases like Foot
and Mouth Disease or Classical Swine Fever. |
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Should
I... Clip my Bird's Wings?
Why Not?
Birds that are allowed to fly freely are generally more physically
fit and healthier than those confined permanently in a cage. If
the wings are clipped incorrectly there is a greater chance of the
bird crash landing and ... |
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Care
of Your Pet Canary
You should consider carefully before buying
a pet bird. A whistling canary is easy to care for and will give
you years of pleasure if looked after properly. |
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Amazing
Genetics
We began with the introduction of Violet to our Buttercup gene
pool. An attempt was made by using a Violet cock bird at 2yrs of
age mated to a Green /Blue Buttercup hen with only one... |
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Ask
the Vet
Is it okay to kiss my bird or let them share my dinner?
My bird scratches a lot, is this likely to be mites or lice?
Should I have my bird's wings clipped? |
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Windows
Kill
Wild birds are killed regularly on a daily basis when they fly
into glass windows of houses, office blocks and even cars in sales
lots. This is tragic for the birds and can be distressing and costly
for people too. |