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Introducing Charlie the Commentator

Charlie is still young, fresh out of the egg at only twelve weeks old. While he seems somewhat dim in rather a large number of departments, Charlie is brighter than most suspect. For instance, having learned to plummet to the floor with the savagely clipped wings he came with (so bad he cannot even glide), […]

Pet Cockatiel Care

Photo Theresa Sjoquist

The small native Australian parrot, the cockatiel, makes one of the best pet birds. It is a relatively calm bird, easily trained, and happy with less than a huge cage, especially once it is tame and can be let out. The minimum size of a cage for one or possibly two cockatiels, is 32cm x […]

Teaching Your Cockatiel to Step Up

Jupiter

Step up, or up, or hop up, are all commands to get your pet cockatiel to hop up on to your finger. Birds have an inbuilt safety mechanism which stops them being knocked out of trees. When they sit in trees with moving branches, particularly in the wind, they could easily be knocked off their perch by a […]