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Are You Ready for a Pet Bird?
Wondering if a pet bird is right for you? Read on to learn more about what it takes to successfully keep a feathered friend as a pet.
How to Make Binoculars Using Crafts
Binoculars can help a person view distant objects as if they are right in front of you. Parents or teachers can help children make a set of binoculars during art class. This craft lesson can be used in conjunction with a lesson on early explorers, who used binoculars from their ships to spot land in
Things to Know About a Cockatiel
If you need to know more about cockatiels, this is the right place to find out things about a cockatiel.Read on to find out these things.
The Downsides Of Feeding Birds
People who feed birds do so for a number of reasons. One reason is to provide birds with the sustenance that they may have difficulty getting when the environmental conditions are bad for finding their primary food sources.
DIY: Chicken Nesting Boxes
Chickens "give birth" regularly through the year every one to two days on average, and more in the summer months. If you own one chicken or a whole flock, your chicken(s) will lay eggs regardless of whether you provide a place for it or not. If you want to find the eggs easily, you can build a place
How to Keep Birds out of a Garden
While birds are a welcome addition to many gardens – they eat the bugs that might damage plants, not to mention add pretty sights and sounds to the landscape – they can also be a nuisance. Birds can introduce weeds in the garden by way of transporting bird seed and plant seeds around t
How to Tame an Alexandrine Parakeet
The Alexandrine parakeet is a brightly colored, medium-sized parrot. These birds are highly intelligent and can make wonderful pets when properly trained and socialized. Because birds are often prey animals in the wild, however, these parrots will be shy without socialization and may even bite due t
Why Do Birds Make Such Great Pets?
Why do birds make such good pets? It is interesting really, because birds are free and most likely do not wish to be put into a cage and yet they seem to like the companionship and safety from the outside world that cages offer and they seem to like the free food too.
How to Dye a Bird's Feathers
Festive holiday colors punctuate the special gift of a baby chick or duck, and white budgies can be colored to represent a child's favorite color. Bird feathers can also be colored just for fun. Birds must have light or white feathers to receive color properly. Some bird feathers that can easily be
How to Wean a Baby Umbrella Cockatoo
Larger cockatoos, such as umbrella cockatoos, can usually be weaned at between 15 and 18 weeks of age, but each baby umbrella cockatoo will develop differently and should be treated as an individual, and weaned when it appears ready. In general, cockatoos can be quite difficult to wean and require p
Birders Do Their Part to Help the Economy! Learn How!
Birders do their part to help the economy in a variety of ways - and it helps birds too!
How to Make a Cage for a Baby Owl
Owls are predatory birds that keep mice, rats and other rodents under control. Owls are not good nest-makers, hastily combining twigs, leaves and branches. Fledgling baby owls are at risk if they fall out of a poorly built nest. To rescue baby owls, you need to know what kind of cage to make to conf
Contact Call - Definition of "Contact Call"
Definition of the term "contact call" as used in aviculture.
How to Build a Turkey Decoy
Turkey decoys are used by wildlife photographers and hunters to draw turkeys closer to them. While there are many turkey decoys on the market, you can make your own for less using plywood and foam. You can add the details based on what your hunting experience has shown you to be important. Base your
How to Hatch Chicken Eggs at Home Without an Incubator
Letting a hen hatch its own chicken eggs might seem to be the most reasonable course to take. However, most hens used for laying eggs have had this motherly instinct bred out of them. Many will walk away before the chicks hatch. Building a homemade incubator with some common household items to hatch
Why Do Birds Fly Together in Large Groups?
Birds swooping overhead in unison, swiftly dodging predators and escaping harm, leave watchers awestruck and dazzled. The synchronicity and speed at which these birds move together amazes commoners and scientists. Researchers are beginning to learn more about why birds fly in groups, but there are q
Bird Toys - Our Feathered Friends Like to Play, Too
There are also bands that can be attached to a bird at their ankle. This helps to prevent destructive birds from pulling their feathers out and injuring themselves.
How to Stop Turkeys From Pecking
Turkeys are a social bird. Pecking is a way for them to demonstrate dominance over not only other turkeys, but other animals and even humans. Both male and female turkeys have their own unique "pecking order," in which the dominant member pecks at the more submissive one. Dominance issues can be har
Teaching Your Parakeet to Talk
There are two different ways to teach your parakeet to talk. One way is to train him/her to mimic what you are saying. This way is far less time consuming as all you need to do is repeat the same words consistently of what you want your parakeet to say whenever you are around him/her.