Talon

Thank you Katana600 for your understanding and kind words. Some here seem to think I am upset or worried over ir. I LOVE watching how he adores my daughter and only her. Tolerates my son and my dauighters boyfrined, and allows them to pick him up and hang out on them when they are watching tv, but is so quick to show his distaste for me..LOL It is quite amusing for me to watch and learn how different birds are so different towards people.

Yes, we have a line in the sand at my house as well. I get hissed and spit at every day when I feed him or cover him at night... BUT in the am when I uncover his cage, he calls me Pretty Bird...and when I open his cage, he has a Thank you whistle he uses on everyone.

Piper still adores my daughter only. He is a one person bird for sure! Every time he sees her, he whistles loudly for her. Expects to be put on the counter for breakfast with her, and YELLS if she leaves him for a second while he's with her. He has a very strong personality, and let's her know...come back, don't walk away when we are together!!! He yells by whistling so loud. He is adorable! As always, I watch from my spot with my 3 near me...

Piper loves to stick his head in a small mug shaped toy in his cage and whistle in it daily. Tonight he was with my daughter on the couch, he stuck his head between her toes and whistled so loud for about 10 minutes. It was so funny!

Hi everyone, just wanted to do an update on Pipers wing. My daughter gave him a big shower with a spray bottle, hewas pretty soaked. Once he was wet, we could see that his wing looks like it was chopped off, there was a bone sticking thru what is left of his feathers on that side. It appears that it is deformed either from an injury, or cutting perhaps. It does seem to bother him when he tries to fly and ends up with a thud on the floor. He runs around waving it and squawking like he is being murdered...... So it seems to be painful when he bumps it. It has been a year, there is no growth whatsoever with feathers on that side. At some point we will have the vet look at it when he needs to go in for a checkup. But until the we are careful as he likes to jump to his cage when we get close and he doesn't judge distance very well..

I would like to revive this conversation. I am having thoughts about micro chipping once again. If the unthinkable happens, I live in a state that is cold 6 months out of the year, would they die from the cold? I imagine they would...,would all the hawks we have here flying daily overhead get them, yes they would....BUT what IF someone found them, how would I prove they belong to me without a micro chip? Any thoughts on this subject? And would it be worth the pain it causes to have them micro chipped since it seems it's such a small chance they would survive and someone find them?

Well, I don't have any other amazon experience. In fact, when I brought Nilah home as she was bought on a whim......I panicked cause I didn't know the first thing about them. I researched the web looking for an amazon forum...none was found, so I started the amazon room here. I have learned so much here from our wonderful members and Nilah herself. I expected her to ET worse as I had read other places, but she is a dear sweet love, a bit of a handful as you all know. She tests me all the time, but if I stay consistent, she quickly learns I don't budge, and she never tries that behaviour again. As she ges older, she getsmore attached to me , and in how she shows her love for me. I love all my parrots, but she has wormed her way into my heart with her appreciation of who I am. As Ray says, they live in the moment, and wear thei heart on their wing. She is a More forgiving parrot than my others.

Thanks everyone for the greyt birthday wishes. It really meant a lot to me to know that I have people that care here in this greyt family! My kids got me a birthday cake with the number 39 for candles.......(I'm 53......) aren't they amusing...lol

I,look forward to that and hope you are right!

Nice thread. Thank you Ray for starting it. I don't have anything to offer, as I got Nilah when she was 6 months old, so lucky for me she really had no baggage in a family envirement before us. She does live in the moment as Ray keeps teaching me, she loves me the most and is very attached to me. She is Incredibly affectionate towards me and loves to snuggle and cuddle. I do have to put her in her cage before visitors arrive or she will fly onto their shoulder and let no one near her, she will bite hard if I try and take her off and then fly away so it's impossible to get her in her cage at that point.....she's so different than my greys.

Her delightful treat is an uncooked Butternut Squash!

Hi, welcome and it is great you are doing your research before making such a lifelong commitment. I have 3 parrots and when I first got them, I didn't work many hours, I was able to be home and they were out most of the time I was home. Fast forward 4years, I am now working full time and also part time so I am gone a lot. My birds get an hour and a half out inthe morning before I leave for work and then most nights, they are our when I get home ASAP. Some nights they get 3 or more hours, some nights they only get 1 1/2 hours....they have mcaw size cages, lots of toys, perches and swings. Always a full snack bowl along with their food and water bowls and the tv on. On the weekends they are out most of thedays. They seem to have adapted well, but sure do miss me, try are all over me when I am home. I feel bad for te change in thir life style, but financially this is the way it is for now.

This is a daily battle with Talon trying to get into all my kitchen cupboards. She one this o e as well.

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That's a riot! Thanks for the good laugh at work today.. I needed that!

I agree totally!!

Nilah LOVES to yell at everyone & everything!! My dogs bark and she's yelling "QUIET!" Stop it!

She already does...

Jay, all you post is helpful to many of us. Stand by your convictions & beliefs. Stop worrying about hurting others feelings or upsetting anyone.......sometimes we need to be set straight, or to see things from an outsiders perspective so that we may become better parronts. I believe you and many are helpful in this matter. After all, thats why we have this forum to help each others and see ourselves and what we are doing thru others eyes. Keep it up my dear friend. we need you,

One of Nilah's favorite spots, one that changes her whole outlook for the day is hanging out in front of an open window.....doesnt matter the temp...she just LOVES it! My daughter thought it would be cute if Nilah would yell.." HELLO WORLD, THIS IS NILAH!!" (in a hpyy excited tone), well she started saying it to her last week...so far, Nilah has the first part...Hello World!" The other day, Talon & Rikki for the first time got into a fight over a kitchen cupboard that Talon opened above the miccrowave...Rikki wanted it, Talon wasnt giving up either. I had Nilah on my shoulder in the bird room getting their water bowls to bring to the kitchen, I heard them start to fight, then Talon squawk, and I yelled at them, They were still fighting and I was running frantically into the ktichen and at the same time yelling "Stop it, Talon, Rikki, Stop" over and over I guess....cause now Nilah yells, the same thing over and over, and every once in a while changes her tone and throws in a "Hello World!" It sounds quite funny.....

Jay I have no reason to get upset with you or anyone. I asked for help, and love all the responses I get, whether I agree or not, they help me think at things from all angles. I must say, many times, what I write is so quick and misleading as I am at work sneaking things in. I didnt explain well the scarey tube in my house. This is a play tube about 4" long that is a noise maker. It was a present my son recieved as a present many years ago. when you tip it from one end to the next, it makes a funny sound....it has been broken for about a year and it is just an empty cardboard tube now. It is ble with yellow strips. It is the only thing in my house that will keep Nilah away from the "forbidden" items, such as the coffee beans in my expresso maker, I put it near the stove when I am cooking to keep her away from the burners until they are cooled, things like that. It is only used when necessary for the safety of her or others...sometimes I put it near the door when someone goes in or out so she won't come near it as well. She isnt so fearful of it that she won't come within 5 feet of it, she just stays away from you if you hold it. SO, hopefully that helps. ON those 2 days when I saw that NIlah wanted to attack my daughter, I put it on the couch next to her knowing NIlah wouldnt bother her. Much of the time, she wants my daughter to rub her foot.....but right now...I have a house FULL of 4 female birds...let's just say, there is a lot of fighting over certain spots abouve my cabinets going on.......I am on constant watch when they are out lately...but I know this too shall pass. I have had to take some things awasy that they were fighting over.......jeez..FEMALES!!! I dont know how you men put up with us...

Trancework. This is great information. I think this should be made a sticky in the Welcome Room. Is it possible for you to get permission from them for us to copy it?

Thank you all for the advice. I think you are onto something Ray. I know people say she is too young for sexual behavior, but she has been exhibiting it since last springtime. So I feel that is why this is at its worst now. Today, I kept a very close eye on her whenever my daughter is around. We have a tube that she is incredibly fearful of, so I keep it next to my daughter at all times. I did try and distract her whenever she got that look in your eye.....the nice things about amazons is you can always tell what they are thinking, so I was able to have her step p and move her interest onto something else. After work, I went to the Dollar store and bought some tacky decorations to hopefully scare her off. One is a heart shaped tinsel thing to hang on a wall, i put it on my daughter head while she watched tv....you should have seen us at the dinner table, my daughter sitting at the table with a sparkly tinsel heart shaped crown on her head, and the rest of us looking so plain and undecorated... I know, one day at a time.......

Wow! Thank you for this life saving information! !