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Why I feel like Mia just always trying to figure out how to jump to the shoulder that’s just an inch too far away

Mia: "How do i get to the shoulder WITHOUT getting closer to Newt..." lol

I'm glad we're on the same page! I'm honestly so happy to hear you speak about this. People often really confuse that small/medium sized birds are really different to their larger counterparts. If I were to let my budgies out on the first day they came home, they would've flew and hurt themselves on the walls. Not to mention, most people who do end up letting them go flying like them end up chasing their birds to get them back in the cage. It's just a bad idea. Having them acclimate to their surround for awhile is a better approach! :)

I'm about to get tomorrow 2 budgies, this video comes in hand!

I read you were getting a new bird!! 🤦 I am not too bright......

Thank you for posting this! I am about to get a parrotlet, and this is great information. You have the best channel. No nonsense and your birds are SO CUTE! I love them!

Newt's loud "achoo" off-camera and out of the blue (9:16) reminds me of my dad's sneeze 🤣

I got my second bird a week or two ago, and i’m pretty sure she came from a hoarding situation so she’s very skittish. as much as it hurts to say i probably wont be able to gain her trust for a long time :(

I love birds and appreciate your channel!

this was very helpful! would you ever do a topics video on prepping your home/space for a new bird? I've been worried about what kind of houseplants to avoid, non-stick pan coating (is there a distance where that would be okay? or not at all?), when and how things like candles or incense can be used in your home (if at all?). on one hand I read a lot about how dangerous these things are, and on another I see other bird owners online using these things in other parts of their life/house.

I've literally just had my parrotlet a week so thanks for this. He is skittish so body language tips are appreciated.

Very good information ❤

Yesss! Thank you!

I’m getting a new parrolet tonight I have 3 cockatiels but haven’t gotten a new bird in 5 years so definitely a needed video.

Thanks for the video😄

I’m just getting a bird this weekend so this is super helpful!

u and mia are matching colors its so cute

Haha its been one month since I got by fourth budgie ... ,ó_ò,

Aww I love birds

I have two young budgies, they love playing with their toys inside the cage, they will eat millet spray and seeds from my hands, one in particular will easily follow the millet and get onto my finger. The other one is more skiddish, and will just fly around my room and land on my ceiling fan. They will spend hours up there. I can coax the one back down with treats but I don’t want to reinforce just flying up to the fan all the time. The other one is much harder to get back in the cage even after leaving them alone up there for awhile. Suggestions?

Thank you for sharing all your knowledge about these amazing birds, my daughter owned 2 budgies and a canary, 1 budgie died because she kind of neglected them n didn't look out for the signs she was sick until it was too late! so ever since I've been learning so much about them n now am feeding them lots of vegetables as my daughter only fed them seeds And the budgie has never been out the cage so I'm slowly taming him as I can't bare for another one to die never coming out the cage like the canary hes out n so happy but it's a working progress with the budgie, so am looking forward to your taming video but I should have cracked it by then as today he ate millet out my hand 😁 I'm super proud of hes progress as he's always been very scared bless him but things are definitely looking up thanks to all your amazing videos thank you so much again you and ElleAndThebirds has changed our birds life for the better but children should never get birds 🐦 as they need so much care and poor old mum's get left to look after them ❤❤

I’m a partially involuntary new bird foster parent 😂 I found a paralyzed wild bird last week and it was with my neighbor for two weeks until today (they know more about birds but they’re moving so I have the bird now). It’s some type of water hen and it can’t fly or stand up due to the paralysis. I hope it can recover. 😞

The nature sounds part that u mentioned made me regret what I did today so much.. I thought he liked it 😩🥺 man.. I probably bumped us back to square one of getting used to the environment.

Where did you get that swinging branch? Is it a diy branch?

Hi thanks help so much

I got so exited I thought you got another flying toddler😑

How long do i give my baby lovebird (weeks old) space/boundary if it needs to be handfed (with formula)? I’m scared if i don’t feed it, it’ll starve and go weak :(

Looks like Mia and you wore the same dress today 😍🙂😍🙂

I’m getting a budgie on SATERDAY! ❤️❤️❤️

I'd love the list of websites to be in description or comments

Hi there. I have 2 green cheeks and 2 sun conures. I am having troubles with my my green cheeks always chasing away my sun conures. There are times the GC's are in one area of the room and then they see thr SC's playing with a toy or eating food and they decide to chase them off, but the thing is I put the same food and kind of toy on the GC's area as well but they still try to chase the others off. Any tips?

I have a question why is my parrolet breathing so hard? She makes little click sounds every 1 secound. I just got her yestereday... I got her from a breeder

I am getting two new cockatiels today and this video has been very useful. Thank you!!! BTW any name suggestions?

Your parrotlet and conure.. (I believe it’s a conure?) seem to tolerate each other well. Are they good with each other all the time? Would you have any tips on the two together? I have a parrotlet and absolutely adore conures so would like to get one in the future but I’m unsure as they both have such big personalities and obviously the size difference! Thank you for your vids they are so helpful

when I got my bird and I tried to get her from her travel cage and into the main cage and while trying to lure her out she hopped right onto my hand and asked me to give her scritches

my closest avian vet is about 3 hours away

I have a lovebird (black mask, 3 months, handfed) I got 5 days ago. He's semi friendly comes out of his cage will fly to my head or shoulder on his own but will bite any finger that gets close to him. Is there any training I can do to mellow him out.

A peta commercial started before this video and it was of owls screeching and now my Budgie is scared

I got a 1 year old green Conure that’s hates being touched. He doesn’t step up or like hands one bit but he does like getting on my shoulder does anyone have any advice on how I can teach him to step up? (I’ve taught him to target and have tried to lure him with treats but still no progress)

i have 2 budgies and i wanna give them pellets but where i live i can't find any so what should i do

What do I do ,I grabbed my bird and scared it and I want to bond again

I got my parrotlet a week ago, the problem with me is that he's not hand raised and i know he is afraid of hands but i literally dont have another choice and i have to put my hand inside the cage to put food and that hurts me a lot cause he alsways gets scared and i dont want to do that T-T. What should dooooo???

May I know what's your little blue bird's breed name pls

It’s been 5+ weeks with my shy little parrotlet, he was not hand raised and is currently afraid of me Right now the best we can do it have him eat bits of millet from my finger and walk outside the cage onto a table He’s only motivated by millet though hng, I’m not sure how to get him to like me too

I got my cockatiel 3 days ago he is 5 months older and he is not hand raised He is in smaller cage now but I want buy new big cage for him so I can put some toys inside the cage so is it ok to buy new big cage for him now ? I am worried about he will get stressed

Damn I guess I won’t get him out with my hand he’s good after I do but I will give space

Go to Ginger's parrot rescue or another legit bird rescue if you want to help parrots! Us loving them so much actually hurts them in the long run pegood they suffer greatly because they live so long and we get disinterested in them. Vet bills will come too and they ain't cheap.

Hey, hello. So I have had my birds for almost four weeks now. They still aren't to excited about stepping up. They are getting alot better with target training. But they still are not very hand friendly yet. How soon after getting them, should their stress level be down enough for another 1hr30min car ride to the vet?

I was curious. How full of toys/ stimulation should the cage be when you first bring them home? Since they will already be dealing with a new stressful life change.

HELP PLEASE. i got a 8 year old conure from this lady that just left the bird in the cage. she never git it out just once. the bird is super territorial and just wants to attack me all the time. i dont know what to do. please help me

Can you suggest some avain vets because I am getting a bird soon. I have done my research and i know everything but the avain vet part

I FEEL SO BAD FOR MIA COULD YOU NOT HAVE BEEN 1 INCH TO THE LEFT????

Yeah first comment and first view

My father had a bird when he was little, he got robbed. The robbers tried to steal the bird and next thing they hear is the bird screaming my uncles name, He screamed “JOEY!!!! “

I have a cockateil since 3 days....but tried to step up the bird many times and it ran away 🙄

5 th!

Is it ok that my vet didn't do a blood test? Or should I seek out another vet?

How many birds do you have?

my bird looks like a giraffe when he's scared. Stretches his neck so far it scares me XD

One thing that I know about parrotlets from being a parrotlet owner is that they are too small for their own good. The chances that they can fly away or be accidentally killed by an unsuspecting person is very high and it is very very easy for them to get diseases and die. Psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) is one of the main diseases you should look out for and it's just so so so unfortunate how such loveable creatures are so vulnerable because of their size. My own Ari flew away a few weeks ago and I still can't get over her disappearance and I'm having mental breakdowns every time I see anything related to her. Please be very, very cautious with your parrotlet so it can live its best, healthiest and longest life with you.

Heyyy Hiiiiii

Hey, I was planning on bringing home a second parrotlet soon, but I don't really have room for a second cage. Would housing two parrotlets in one cage be alright? They would spend most of their time out of the cage, but I worry about territorial behaviors developing. Also, do you have any tips for introducing them and encouraging them to get along?

My bird knows the way around the house -_-

When I got of bird it was clipped 😭

New bird eating ONLY millet and nothing else.....what to do

new bird???? 🤔

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Also, keep your birds away from a dog or cat cus mine almost died today. My brother opened my door while my birds were out of their cages and the dog ran in and started attacking one of my birds and i ran in because he was screaming and yeah I had to get the dog off of him. He's doing fine but I think he's just traumatized. He got a lot of love today My brother isn't traumatized my bird was

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You’re voice know much better with the mic it is Clear

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Hello I'm a subscriber to your videos I enjoy them find them educational. Perhaps you can help me just recently purchased a male Blue Pacific parrotlet supposed to be a male. What I ordered the parallel Pacific Blue parallel mail from this breeder who owns the Pirate Store also knows other breed is he said I can get it back and get the birds for your four of them you could pick one from them they're all males said okay I go up to the store and then woman had three left one was purchased in the morning I got the bird and I got the one that was the darkest blue they all look very close but I picked the darkest blue one and said you know by the way and I'll see the blue Street next to the eye how do you tell that this is a male versus female at such a young age 2 months of age she said well it's hard to tell I said I don't see the blue dark blue rump on bird either which also is the mail and she said well well that's because they're so young two months old they don't show to the street next to their I don't show to the royal blue colors is pronounces and they get older. So I axed how do I know this is a male because that's what I asked for that's what I want because females can I problems with eggs and getting blocked and everything and I just want to mail. And the owner to store the breeder he know that when he went to go get the birds specifically for me to four of them so I can pick one. And she said well she turned it upside down she's looking at the birds vent and she said I from my experience I would say this is a male said okay while paying 350 $350 for the bird I see what if it turns out to be a female can I bring it back to exchange it for a mass uses no. So what I'd like to know is how do you hit what other techniques message is there to determine a two-month-old bird is Young is my Pacific Blue parrotlet Male what other techniques are there to make that determination of the sexes? Thanking you in advance Fred. I look forward to your response in my RU-vid account thank you..

Set it free??

Umm my parrotlets fluff up and fly wings while chirping and then jump to my hand and run up my shoulder and hang out. So not always a scared reaction.

What kind of blird you have😯

90% of those who watch this video will have a parrot, if yes then like

My bird let me touch her in 3 days from the pet store.

I have a cockateil since 3 days....but tried to step up the bird many times and it ran away 🙄