@@lyx9560 all cockatiels I've raised in my life time lived to be over 20 😁 "lol" also worked at a vet's office for many years and I'm a bird rescuer and rehabilitater. No offense but your quick Google search doesnt compare to years of hands on experience. 👌
LOL.. I love the way he is banging his head...that is so cute! My cockatiel loves the sound of this video.. :) Am I the only one who looks for videos to make their bird sing? ;)
Aww he wants the tiel in the mirror to preen him! Look how he lowers his head for scratches! My tiel got really excited about these sounds (he makes the same ones, LOL).
No you're not the only one. I do it all the time too. lol. Usually my Rosella Parrot goes crazier over the whistling than my Cockatiels. Which is weird but, hey, they join in to a lil bit here n there lol. Skittles, my Rosella Parrot has a blast with all the videos.
What a cute little being! That's what I say to mine, who looks just like this. His name is Gandalf the Grey. He sometimes does that tapping thing on my head.
Maybe the thumbs down don't have anything to do with this beautiful little cockatiel, it could be that cockatiels become very hormonal when they have a mirrored image of the other bird. I get a little concerned that the cockatiel could hurt its lovely little beak by breaking the mirror so much. On the other hand, it seems as though male cockatiels enjoy " beaking" mirrors and other items. Just a thought or two ~ I could be wrong. Such a gorgeous cockatiel and I'm jealous of the great view. 😊
I love Cocktails birds they are funny and easer to play and train not to big like other parrots that are heavy to hold.I miss mine I had years ago hope it is happy and they let her out if the cage .I think males are better bird's.They sing and play are funny like to cuddle good with kids to
Awww I used to have a sweet cockatiel named Dexter! I loved him so much.. But he passed away :'( I cried SO much!!. I still miss him.Then, I was given another cockatiel who looks just like Dexter, but he still isn't him. However, I do love him VERY much, too! His name is Kramer.
@Liveeification Keep him in a quiet room for a few days. Only bother him when changing his food and water. After about a week, start to sit by the cage and read to him so he gets used to your voice. Use a nice, calming sweet voice. Spend as much time reading as you can. Then slowly offer him millet spray- since it is long, he may not be too timid to take it from you since he's already adjusted some one. Do this until he gets to the point where you don't have to hold it out so far. :)
Birds are a joy. But we have one that wants to whistle all day. We have a hard time to make him be quiet. When you have 6 and they are all going at the same time....
Floyd- What a good name.. I just turned this video on for some backround noise for my little tiel.. Every now and then he will chime in and try and call back to floyd.. Pretty funny birds.
my bird bangs his beak off of stuff like that all the time, it was funny for awhile..but then i figured he's crazy enough as it is, killing brain cells wouldn't help him any. i doubt it can feel that good after a couple minutes of it. lol
Matthew, I think the quieter one is the female. The talkative is the male. Also you will find out when & if they start getting closer...if you know what I mean.
awwwww my bird loves my dad but not me.shes hated me since her mate died.she bites me and eats my hair, but i love her.ur bird is cute.ill post a vid of my silly bird when i can :> tweet
your bird is so lovely... it looks so much like my cockatiel Blake. He escaped and I've tried everything to get him back,and his son is freaked out cause he is all alone now.....i don't know how to get him back. DDDD:
Marie Williams Cockatiels are often enthusiastic mimics, but they don't talk very well because their vocal chords are limited in ability. They may try to talk but they're usually hard to understand. However, they are excellent at mimicking noises and songs. Mine used to imitate the sound of kitchen cabinet doors, the microwave, the phone, and my velcro shoes.
happyninslave he thinks that there is another bird and trying to entertain her so he can marry her lol that's what my bro told me I'm not sure 'bout dat bcz wr have finches not teils
*IMPORTANT WARNING FOR PET BIRD OWNERS:* The food that we normally give to the canaries (and other companion birds) consisting of a "complete, balanced and top-quality seeds mixture" bought in pet stores or malls, makes the owners trust that their pet is well fed, but it's not so: indeed the birds health is at serious risk. The owners of canaries, parrots, cockatoos, budgies, cockatiels, etc., WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO DOMESTIC BIRD BREEDERS AND VETS and keep in mind that although we feed them with such a typical seeds mixture, our birds are very likely in danger of suffering an unexpected, painful and practically inevitable PREMATURE DEATH BY FATTY LIVER DISEASE. Canaries, for example, will surely die at 4 - 7 years of age of the more than 14 that they can live. It's sad that pet birds are fated to die early and painfully in so many cases. You have to warn people to avoid it! This deadly disease is very common in pet birds but owners usually don’t know or detect it in time. And we can’t imagine that *THE CAUSE IS IN THE FOOD ITSELF* that we provide to our birds, in which such *a typical mixture contains low-fat seeds such as canary seed together with other VERY fatty seeds such as niger, hemp or nabine and, in addition, the birds usually prefer to eat the fatty seeds* so that their REAL DIET is unbalanced by excessive fat, gradually causes the fatty infiltration of the liver and in a few years causes fatty liver hepatitis and PREMATURE DEATH to pet birds. *Also the fruits and specially the breeding paste and its pigments and the SUNFLOWER SEEDS can attack the liver* if they are taken too much or for too long. It's a cruel disease that progresses silently and, when its unexpected symptoms begin, they are easily confused with other ailments so the owners usually postpone the visit to the vet at a time already critical for the life of the bird (besides that not all vets are trained to recognize this elusive and misleading disease, even to administer lipotropic and regenerative liver protectors in curative doses, just in case it's that and not a supposed blow). It's a process of slow and asymptomatic progression, but when their visible symptoms begin (acute phase) the disease accelerates. *SYMPTOMS OF THE ACUTE PHASE OF FATTY LIVER DISEASE:* First, progressive sadness and/or pecking, hard belly (in many cases, with a dark spot with a half-moon shape on the belly, which seems a "tumor", to see it you have to wet your fingers to remove the down), falls from the sticks of the cage that seem for "errors of calculation" and then lameness (that make believe that they are by the previous falls, but both symptoms are due to that it hurts the liver), lack of flight and singing, the bird fluffs up his feathers or bends more or less slowly; Then, within a few weeks or a few days, heavy breathing with open beak, remaining lying on the floor of the cage near the food, sudden spasms from time to time (which make people believe that the bird is "epileptic" but it are twinges of pain of diseased liver), abundant greenish poop (caused by biliverdin which if it's not fasting, it means hepatic harm), then black and watery (from hepatic hemorrhages), then a strange purplish color of skin and beak, an excessive appetite and the final "improvement" of a few days (in the last phase, the already degenerated liver becomes deflated by what the bird seems to ameliorate), after which it suddenly dies among seizures (which may seem a heart infarct). For the first symptoms the liver has already degenerated to 80% and only an urgent (and accurate) vet action can save your bird and revert the liver situation. If you simply feed your bird with the loose seeds mixture (even if you give it fresh fruits, vegetables and let it exercise, for example by letting it out of the cage at home), right now your pet's liver is degenerating, and neither you nor your bird know. *Without liver protectors, it's almost certain that your bird will die early and in many cases you won’t be able to determine its real cause.* Hepatic lipidosis it's not only deadly by itself when the visible symptoms begin (sometimes even it does not warn at all until few moments before the death). Even before the acute phase it predisposes the bird to suffer infections, as it weakens the immune system. Obese pet birds have an higher risk of many other diseases, like arthritis, heart disease and cancer. Obesity in birds it's not so apparent but it's more dangerous than in other animals like mammals. So in addition to giving to the birds lipotropic and detox / regenerating hepatic protectors preventively and routinely, breeders usually make their own mixtures with low fat seeds. *PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT:* The time to act is NOW that your bird doesn’t have yet the visible symptoms. It's necessary to ACTIVELY PREVENT THE LIVER DEGENERATION. Fortunately it's easy to do it: *It's very advisable to substitute progressively (within some weeks, as per the instructions of the manufacturer) the mixture of loose seeds for some pellets compound food of seeds, fruits and vegetables (preferably those that already include liver protectors), because this prevents the bird from filtering and eating mostly the fatty seeds (but without insisting if the bird does not get accustomed to eating pellets because he could die for starvation within a few days).* *And, whatever the diet, it's CRUCIAL to add to the drinking water or to the food a LIPOTROPIC LIVER PROTECTOR that includes carnitine and / or choline, betaine, methionine, etc., (and it's very convenient to add a DETOX / REGENERATING LIVER PROTECTOR with thistle milk, boldo, artichoke extract).* Liver protectors are not medicine but cheap food supplements manufactured by pet bird vet laboratories that remove the fat from the liver, clean it and favor its recovery. It's essential to add them to the pet birds diet to conserve their liver. It's something that breeders and vets know, but we the owners usually don't know. It are appearing in the market compound feed for pet birds that don’t include fatty seeds and that already include several liver protectors. *But the vast majority of owners still confidently feed their birds with the typical mixture of loose seeds with little fat and other very fatty seeds... And their birds continue dying for hepatic lipidosis in a large number of cases (likely, in most cases).* Now we know that, as fatty liver disease develops from the daily food itself, it’s most likely THE FIRST CAUSE OF DEATH OF PET BIRDS, and more so as the bird ages. Webs on FLD: www.beautyofbirds.com/liverdisease.html Liver disease is a slow, on-going progressive disease where the liver tissue is replaced with fat. When the liver disease has progressed, the bird may suddenly appear ill. www.lovinghands.com/forms/Hepatic%20Lipidosis%20-%20Fatty%20Liver%20Disease.pdf One of the sadder diseases many avian vets see is that of hepatic lipidosis or fatty liver disease. It's sad in a number of ways since often the birds are very ill, life-threateningly so, or possibly having died suddenly. Often the owners have been unaware of the dangers of feeding their beloved pet the seeds, peanuts, or other fatty foods the bird obviously loves to eat. These are truly cases of "loving your bird to death". Any bird can fall victim to fatty liver disease. www.researchgate.net/publication/46105643_Treating_liver_disease_in_the_avian_patient Dietary deficiencies of lipotrophic factors such as choline, biotin, and methionine may decrease the transport of lipids from the liver. www.veterinaria.org/revistas/redvet/n111110B/111004B.pdf The clinical manifestations of hepatic diseases in ornamental birds are much more frequent than people could imagine and in many cases they are not appreciated, progress in a silent way and when they are evident, vet action may arrive late. Most any avian symptomatology should be considered as if it was a pathology that could be serious, and not allow the disease to develop because then it will probably be too late. We must closely investigate the symptoms, take preventive measures that don’t harm (such as giving liver and intestinal protectors according to the leaflet) ask for advice from vets, breeders, etc. and procure the most appropriate treatment RAPIDLY, but without rushing in the treatment or with the doses in such small animals. If the days go by and the bird doesn’t improve, it's necessary to continue investigating and, if necessary, change the medication in an informed and contrasted manner. Doing nothing or stopping research usually ends up with the bird dead, but acting without being sure of what is done and in what dose, it likely ends the same way. It's necessary to obtain and confirm the sufficient vet experience and have the serenity to determine in each case whether it's convenient to hasten to do and / or administer what medicine and in what dose, or if it’s better not to do and let the situation evolve without medicating for the time being, or according to the medication that has already been administered. A limp in a bird is not always an injury caused by a blow, but the symptom of a disease of some organ (usually the liver or an intestinal disease) that needs to be discovered and treated ASAP. When in doubt, change diet to one with the lowest fat possible (only birdseed, or with other low-fat seeds such as millet, chia and vegetables) and administer lipotropic and regenerating liver protectors in curative doses immediately... although nothing could foresee a fatal outcome. There are also food supplements protectors of the intestinal mucosa and stimulants of the immune system. In doses according to the leaflets do not cause damage, it will surely save the life of your bird (if it's not too late), and will keep them with a basic wellness.
