Crotophaga sulcirostris or Groove-billed Ani
A puffin collecting flowers on Skelling Michael, Ireland
Puffin bringing fishes home for the family.
Melanistic Adelie penguin
put a shirt on that beast.
some day ill be able to post this on thursday
A perfect duet.
You will never escape this video as long as I am alive.
Anonymous asked:
Hey Mia!! Do you have any advice to give of where is a good place to start regarding Parrot training?
Top link goes over the basics of training and some tutorials. Second link has behaviour problems and a list of sources/ professionals to check out!
Anonymous asked:
do your birds bite you hard ever? i took mine to the vet to see if maybe she was sick cause she was biting so hard and the vet told me that was just her personality lmao
Ever? Sure. Often? No.
If the vet cleared that there’s no medical issue causing pain, deficiency or distress then that leaves it as a behavioural issue. Aggressive behaviour isn’t really a personality. An animal can exhibit aggressive behaviour but an animal itself cannot Be Aggressive.
If they’re biting you that hard that often there’s likely something going on that’s triggering those behaviours to occur. Maybe it’s a hormonal response (right now is prime time for seasonal hormones to kick in), age (birds hitting 2 years old start transitioning in to adulthood and lose their complacent baby behaviour set), or environment (whether that be body language getting ignored or stressors impacting the bird’s behaviour).
There’s honestly a ton of reasons why a bird would exhibit a load of biting behaviours but I would probably start by just evaluating their body language. Look for subtle warnings the bird gives you prior to a bite (lowering their body, eye pinning, fluffing up, opening their beak, flaring the tail) and start backing off at those signs so it doesn’t need to escalate. Once your bird starts to see that they don’t need to bite to communicate the biting should decrease. Observing body language around their environment can be helpful as well, do they get more aggressive around their resources, cage, a certain colour or sound? Lots of things can trigger a bird. It may help to take notes in a book of what body language you’re seeing in different contexts and see if you can’t isolate more of what’s causing your bird to feel the need to bite.
this strange yellow penguin was spotted by belgian photographer yves adams. a king penguin with leucism, a condition that reduces melanin, this bird is estimated to be one in 140,000. their rare genetic mutation isn’t unheard of in penguins, but leucistic birds are prone to being more vulnerable to predators, making them even rarer.
YOU: Sees a kitchen BIRD: Sees a spa
❗️Know where your birds are before operating the oven.
❗️Never use the self-cleaning cycle with your birds anywhere in the house b/c toxic/lethal fumes.
❗️When you get a new stove, run the broiler a few time to burn off the stimky chemical residue.
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A male western capercaillie (松鸡) in Altay prefecture, Xinjiang province