Bleu did a couple of victory laps in the garage and then she was gone. A month later a stranger 500 kilometres north had caught a blue parrot.
Heavy molts and everyday feather loss are two different counts. How often do cockatiels molt in a year, and what makes an extra one start indoors.
The NHC is tracking two Atlantic lows and the season peaks September 10. What a veterinarian says to pack for a bird, and the two failures after a storm.
The Kleins were asleep in their Lebanon home when the bird in the cage started hollering a word Barbara says she had never once heard him use.
Parrot molting runs disproportionately longer in big birds, and the reason is measurable. Plus the feather test that separates a molt from plucking.
Birds run a body temperature near 104 °F and cannot sweat, so heat builds fast. Where to move the cage, how to use fans and ice, and the signs to act on.
Poppy swore and tore at the wallpaper. The bird handed back to Freda Ireland four weeks later sang Twinkle Twinkle, and someone 70km away was watching.
A budgie molt runs symmetrically, left and right together. Patchy loss, clubbed feathers or a fledgling that never feathers properly mean something else.
Harri had been gone eleven days when a captain three days out of Australia noticed a pink and grey bird sunning itself on deck. Her family had given up.
Escaped birds land high and close, and clipped wings do not keep them home. The search order that works, and who to call before the first day is out.