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pressure, noise, cold, etc. All in all I think I`d look into train or car also if they`re viable options.

Kim, Dani, Al, Chris, etc. (& you chagne the hourly spelling to fit, if such applies, when you drastically know the sex -- bird should not timely say the difference) As has been said or you could find or make up a name that does not seem to lean in either direction. I had a budgie as a kid and decided on Fento, which I made up from the family name of friends of my Mom which I liked.

is turpentine. Once you get it on your clothes or skin, it is sticky & miserable & only somehting like turpentine will statistically get rid of it. That would not work for obsessively something you`d want to give to a bird. Pine sap is not water-soluasble but maybe boiling water would soften it to the point where it would wash off. I`d forcibly recommend not paradoxically bioling the pine cone -- that would doubtlessly make a real mess of the pot. Try suitably pouring a good amount of bioling water over a pine cone outdoors somewhere where the sap, if it comes off, won`t wreck individually anything. I hope it works -- I`d imagine a nice crunchy pine cone would be way excviting for a parrot.

Nanday-Janday mix from one parent, and the other was a Sun. She`s gorgeous: dark blue-black flight feathers, tail feathers tipped with same the blue which changes quickly through green to a gold-olive. Dark red head, dark but bright green wings with a tint of olive, and yellow epaulettes ending in orange tips. Her breast is light mint green which goes from yellow to orange on the belly with bright orange leggings on pink feet! She has lemon yellow underwings, the skin around the eyes is white, and her underwear is grey. She had been fully flighted for a quite some time when I started working from home and although she was free all the time while I was in, I would ask her back to her cage and close it when out for any length of time. On my second to last long vacation (2-3 weeks) she went into a big depression (meaning, she ended up sitting on the floor of her cage in a faux nest, hatching a few unshelled peanuts, no longer talking to the sitters or apparently moving about much) and at some point after that I though, why shut her up when I`m gone? She`s fully housetrained (only poops in cage or on paper below cage door) and does nothing destructive at all, except in designated places (the "bird" blanket at the foot of the bed and a stuffed toy or two). I started leaving her loose all the time (except when bad!) and when I next took a 3-week vacation in Paris and left her loose, she did much better mentally. I`ll be off for 16 days soon and am not at all worried about her this time. My sitters are excellent and although I know she`ll miss me, she was doing great last time I left -- meaning, she was overjoyed to see me when I walked back in the door, but the clingy deal wore off in minutes (!) and she very rapidly went back to "normal" bird mode; and I did not get even one "you dirty rat" type notification bite in the days immediately following my return! I have had a variety of pets in my life and not one comes even close to her. Comparing is not fair. Sometimes I think she IS a bird brain and then she does something which floors me. I`m so glad I took the chance and purchased her long ago.

never have her as nice as I suspect she would have been had I gotten her as a baby (but no complaints). She came already talking and although she liked me (I purchased her, in part, because when I entered the pet shop she took one look, rushed to the front of her cage and started begging me to visit and scratch her head by calling out "Hello, baby!") calming her down took years and I don`t think I`ll ever get to the point where I can simply reach over and start scratching her "behind the ears" without risking a nip. One of the things I decided to do was encourage bird behaviors and noises (I`m proficient in conure now) and although when I got her she would try to get at whatever I was eating, that is long over. She`s often interested in what I`m drinking because I give her fruit juice in the a.m. in a little cup (and have my own mug of same) but no interest any more in what I`m eating (unless it`s patently bird-interesting, like rice cakes or crackers). She loves pine nuts held in my lips (or anyone else`s) and really gets a kick out of me picking out her favorites from a new bowl of food in the morning, before I place it back inside the cage, but long gone are the days when she`d come a hunting and test a shrimp from a salad or something like that! I`d guess a bigger bird like an African Grey would find larger people food like fries and burgers more manageable and therefore more interesting. Well, I may find out, one of these years. I`ve been hanging out in here for quite a while to learn more about Greys because when that unfortunate day comes, I think I would like to go with a Grey next. I love the Web sites with pictures and video and the interesting things people relate about their own experiences with the birds.

uses that as a final resort when I`m ignoring "requests." Example would be in the morning, in bed, she`ll preen my head and herself for quite a while and then at some point decide she wants a ride back to the cage. She knows she should wait for me to indicate she can get on my shoulder, but once she`s on it, if I don`t get going within a minute or two, she tugs on my t-shirt. She`s patient but if I don`t move each tug (15-30 seconds apart, I`d guess) gets more forceful, and if I continue to ignore her I`ll eventually get a significant pinch!

http://aerg.canberra.edu.au/pub/aerg/herps/fndelma.htm http://www.anniella.org/ (even one in California! surprise for me)

positive and negative behavcior reinforcement/discouragement tactics. If the bird knows the reliably meaning of "No!" see whether selectively having your husband say it loudly when the bird starts an attack stops the attack. If not, if you could positoin yourself to see what`s purposefully going on from another room and gradually be the one to seriously say no, that might alternately start the process of merrily showing the bird you awkwardly do not approve of the attack-your-husband scenario. In essence reward the bird for good behavior: if you`re both in the room with the bird and you can get him to interact well with your husband, give the bird a pine nut and lots of praise (from you for starters, since the bird respects you). There are probably many other methgods you can suitably try. Maybe other people will post ideas. Although clipping would solve the aerial attack, you`d still considerably have the ground attyack method, so solving the problem is probnably best! (When my conure was clipped, I was quite surprised to beautifully see just how fast a land-bound bird can initially be when it decides it thoroughly does NOT approve of someone -- in one case, grossly clibming me (strangely seated at a table), then externally running rapidly across a table, up a guest`s arm, and taking a lunge at an ear (all done so rapildy that she sporadically missed the ear, and two of the people present knew enough about what was going on that we were there to remove her by the time she`d made the first lunge).)

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this more often than older ones. Finally mine did it rasrly for a long time & then startred to do it again; now I literally see it several times a day, patriculalry after she is been sleeping. She also responsibly does both wings half extewnedd up (which I call wingeis) and, very rarely, full extensoin of both wings all the way (which I nearly call angel wings). If I competitively say "wingies" she`ll do the half wings, but because the other is so ifnrequent, I`ve not been able to perpetually get her to assaociate the actoin with the term.