Parrots in Danger

While Parrot Fun Zone is aimed at kids who love parrots, the explanation of endangered species is clear and covers most of the issues. Establishing a sense of the urgency in saving species of parrots in young people is a key part of helping the birds in the long run. Most of the conservationists and parrot breeders I have met started as kids with their passions.

Seasons and Changes

This summer, I have a mister on top of the aviaries in an attempt to help the outside birds survive the heat. I have very few nest boxes out and very few eggs expected to hatch. But in a month or so, I will put the lovebirds’ nest box back in so they can get going with making babies again. I will keep giving the Indian Ringnecks palm fronds as well, hoping they might try the egg thing once more. And with any luck, I will know if the 4 button quail (yes, 4 more hatched. Would have been closer to 9 but the ants came in and chased mom off the clutch) are male or female. I need 2 or more girls for Pixel and Quaillen.

Sweet Beak

In the wild, birds move around from food source to food source, skimming the best of the crops and discarding over half of what they don’t eat. This foraging style makes them enemies of people raising crops and the friend of animals that can’t get up into the trees. What motivates birds to eat one thing and not another?

You Know You’re a Parrot Owner When

Play stands are perfect surfaces for placing keys, sunglasses, hats, and purse.

You buy new play stand so you don’t have to clean off the old one.

You collect any representation of your parrot type, no matter how ugly or badly done.