Bird Health

Breeding and Keeping the Nonpareil Finch or Pin-Tailed Parrot Finch

Bird Behavior, Bird Breeding, Bird diet, Bird Health, General Bird Care / 5 minutes of reading /

When translated to English, the French language name for this little finch – Nonpareil – means “without equal”.  The name suits the gorgeous bird perfectly…so much so that aviculturists of all nationalities have adopted it.  Also known as the Pin-Tailed Parrot Finch (Erythrura prasina), the brilliantly-colored Nonpareil has long been among the most desired of all Southeast Asian finches. My first experience with these beauties came while working for a […]

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Healthy Parrot Foods – New Study Compares Pellets, Seed and Produce

Bird diet / 3 minutes of reading /

After I first started work as a Hen Keeper on the Bronx Zoo, a lot of my time was spent cooking eggs and horsemeat, rearing and capturing bugs, chopping produce and in any other case getting ready the diets for 1000’s of birds (please see the article linked beneath for extra info on feeding zoo birds).  The introduction of nutritionally-sound pellets and chows for birds starting from parrots to cassowaries

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Parakeets, Cockatiels, Parrots and Cockatoos – Feather Plucking

Bird Behavior, Bird Health, General Bird Care / 4 minutes of reading /

Feather plucking (and other forms of self-mutation) is one of the most common concerns raised by parrot owners.  I’ve encountered the problem among zoo birds as well.  Despite being well-studied, feather plucking remains difficult to both prevent and cure.  Our understanding is complicated by the fact that feather plucking can be caused by widely-differing physical or emotional ailments.  But some general rules and patterns have emerged.  I’ll review these below…please

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