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Love the pics! He's adorable!

Yes! Look at him standing proud on there. Timber won't step up on anything but my arm (and only in the hoodie). Good for you!

Hmm. I wonder if it's because I did it on my phone... can you see them now?

Just a slight update on this one. I found and purchased a smaller handheld perch as I figured that would be much easier to carry around to different places with me. It came with a plastic 'guard' that I don't think I can detach (although haven't tried to yet in case I break it). I've had it for a good few weeks and have been slowly introducing it to Alfie. He wasn't keen at first because it was something different. So I took it slow and just got him used to touching it with his beak and rewarding him with treats when he did. He hasn't stepped up on it and usually runs away if I ask him to step up on it. I haven't forced the issue. But tonight, he decided now was the time that he would step up and let me walk him round the room. Lots of praise ensued so he knew it was a good thing. So here he is, on his new portable perch! (I just noticed I had it the wrong way round with the plastic guard pointing in the wrong direction haha)

I do understand your concern. I wonder if there's any literature from the teflon tape manufacturer that mentions the maximum heat it can withstand before breaking down. It's unfortunate that we don't have a necropsy report follow-up on Monkey's bird. a

Right but every radiator in the world uses Teflon tape and many people with birds have steam/hot water heat and I can’t find anything about it you would think if it could happen we would know about it like we do the pans , I’m not an expert but I think they get up to about 300 degrees and it’s not direct heat like a flame , wish I could find more , I really need to install a new radiator,

Having lost 2 birds within 30 minutes of each other, I can attest that high heat exposure will release teflon vapors and kill birds. My husband had returned home after living in another state for work and brought back his kitchen pots, etc. Unbeknownst to me, one of the pans contained teflon. My son used that pan to cook bacon over very high heat, suddenly killing 2 of my babies. Luckily our other 11 birds survived the exposure. My thoughts are that if his radiator reached high temperatures, it could have activated the teflon tape. It's quite unusual for such a young bird to quickly die like that, unless he had an undiagnosed medical condition.