Golden Conures are stunning birds….
Category: Behavior
Information about behavioral topics including concerns and remedies.
Bird Rearing (and Internet Caution)
The internet is full of “expert” advice. Often such advice covers key areas like diet, avian medicine and pet ownership.
Conures in Aviculture
Conures display tremendous variation in size, morphology and color.
Birdkeeping Under Attack
Bird keeping is under attack and some would want aviculture banned. This end would make them feel accomplished; the birds, in their utopian mind, would be saved.
Parrot Rescue
Some time back, a person who could no longer own her Goffin´s Cockatoo approached me. She was looking for a home for her bird.
The Umbrella Cockatoo
It was 1976 when I first saw the species. In the quarantine of George Kroesen there were hundreds. The birds congregated in the farthest corner, each trying to hide.
Cockatoos in Aviculture
My avicultural career spans more than four decades. During this time, I have kept and bred a huge array of species, many of which have disappeared from aviculture or have always been very rare.
Musings about Parrots
Aviculture has evolved fairly rapidly in the past decades. This is evident everywhere I travel and across every facet of the hobby, but especially when it concerns breeding.
Feather Plucking Observations
During my more than 40 years´ as an aviculturist I have been a prodigious note taker. I write down everything of interest, or have ledgers where I continuously add notes. An old edition of Joseph Forshaw´s Parrots of the World has a broken spine and is full of pieces of paper containing notes, or these are added to the margins of text or illustrations.
Principals of Aviculture
When I was a kid, I periodically visited the now vanished Sedgewick Studio, a bird store owned by the eccentric Erling Kjelland. He believed in ´witching´– the process of sexing birds by suspending a pendulum over its head.
More F.A.Q’s
Some frequently asked questions and answers..
Cockatoos and Aggresion
Some time back I visited a home for unwanted birds. As I walked around, I discussed with the director the problem of unwanted cockatoos. Like me, she has found that males are the gender most commonly found in rescues. This is because males can become exceptionally aggressive as they reach sexual maturity, or when the unpredictable nature ingrained in their genes emerges.