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I just got a free canary! I love him! His name is Steve Carrot, and yes he does have a last name. Does anyone know about these dudes? There cute!

i inherited 3 lovebirds when my parents bought our house



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Peach Faced Lovebirds?

I take it you're deaf then ...

Oh, for those who haven't encountered these birds, believe me, they can make an apocalyptic racket ... they have a decibel output on a par with an F-15 on full afterburner takeoff ...


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Oh, for those who haven't encountered these birds, believe me, they can make an apocalyptic racket ... they have a decibel output on a par with an F-15 on full afterburner takeoff ...

LOL I agree! And they're little Houdinis too, they escape from the most secure of cages
I used to have a pair of canaries and they were great little birds The hen used to drop eggs everywhere but none of them were fertilised.

I have a conure. And if you think lovebirds are loud... well Harvey is one of the "quiet" species of conures (green-cheek). We had a Jenday at the pet store where I worked one summer that could put a ringing in your ears with one of her quieter screeches.

Harvey is improving though. He's finally learning to say "hi" and "hello" and make kissing and clicking and laughing noises. A much pleasanter sound (besides the banging his toys around - and yes he escaped his old cage on about a daily basis, but his current one is designed a little better). Be glad you have a canary. Canaries sing... and aren't built quite the same for letting themselves out of their cages.

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Now i want a second canary A female so babies can be made+more singing

Oh my goodness! conures are just DEAFENING!

We have 4 teils, a wild colour, a cinnamon, a cinnamon/yellow pearl and a white faced pied.

The pearl is a cutie, we got him from a tiny cage in Tamworth about 3 years ago because he was just clammering to get out Bought a teensy cage to take him back to sydney with us (6 hours or so?) he plays peekaboo and says "peekaboo" when you remove your hand he does "what ya doin?" "how are you?" "night night" and whistles pop goes the weasel.

He has his own preferred version though, which is "pop goes the weasel the weasel", or second choice, "pop goes the *wolf whistle*"

The others are a bit odd. The wild colour male (my mate for 3 years before we bought him his own mate) will mate with inanimate objects over his mate, the cinnamon. She quite frankly thinks he is just a fool and expresses this very plainly in her body language. You can almost see her rolling her eyes and filing her nails while he is displaying for her, "is that all you got?" plastered all over her face

The white faced girl will mate and lay (in the seed tray) but the eggs are never fertile. She seems to enjoy the mothering thing though, she'll sit on those eggs for weeks if you let her. At one stage she had 11 eggs in there and was happy as larry. I need to find her a nest box that will fit through the door of the cage as the others are a bit miffed they only have 2 feed dishes when she gets clucky

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

He has his own preferred version though, which is "pop goes the weasel the weasel",

Loudest thing I've heard among parrots is a Palm Cockatoo.

There was one at Chester Zoo some years back. You entered the aviary (a free flight one of substantial size) and watched all of these parrots and other birds flying around (including Bleeding Heart Doves from the Philippines, and masses of Gouldian Finches) and there would be this Palm Cockatoo sitting on a big tree branch (this aviary was big enough to have a full sized banana tree growing in it among other tropical trees!) located about three feet above your head as you walked along the walkway. The evil so-and-so would wait until someone had walked directly underneath, before emitting a screech that physically hurt your ears. That bird is so loud you can actually feel the sound vibrations on your chest wall if you're close enough to it ... only thing I've known that did that was a Saab Viggen on full burner takeoff at RAF Mildenhall (though admittedly I was a LOT further than three feet from the plane!).

That Palm Cockatoo was evil. You could sense it cackling to itself in a satisfied manner after it had claimed another victim of its weapons-grade sound system.

Oh, it also used to scowl a lot at its keepers.

If any UK Board members get to visit Chester Zoo, it's a fun place. Last time I visited, the aquarium boasted Electric Eels, truly enormous CAEs (11 inches!), a tank with 200 Cardinals that were the biggest Cardinals I've seen in a long time, a collection of Lake Victoria Haps including Astatotilapia nubila, the species with the velvet black males, some astonishing Altum Angels, a brace of weird Mormyrids including Elephant Noses, a big Mbuna collection and some Scleropages that were impounded by Customs for CITES violation by the importers before being handed to the zoo. Once upon a time, the tropical house/free flight aviary also had, in a huge vivarium attached to one side, a truly awesome Anaconda that was 29 feet long. I gather its keepers treated it with a LOT of respect


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002