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Find your REAL Angel name

• First two letters of your last name • First vowel of your first name • Third letter of your middle name (or parent’s first name if you don’t have a middle name • Last consonant of your last name • Add IEL or EL to the end!

THE COUNSEL

They’re up to something…

what is this, a party for baby birds??? (Yes it is)

Since May is mental illness awareness month, I decided to share how Nero helps me with my worst mental illness; PTSD. I have PTSD due to extreme childhood abuse, 17 years worth of hell. Well I still get horrid flashbacks and nightmares that make me wake up in a panic and ready to fight. That’s where Nero comes in. When I have a flashback or nightmare Nero is right there ready to calm me down.

He will snuggle up close to me and start grooming me telling me “It’s OK daddy.” “You safe, I here.” and things of the sort. Having little Nero with me does wonders to calm me down after a PTSD issue. He can even tell when I’m starting to have a PTSD nightmare and will yell his head off to wake me up so it doesn’t get too bad. Any time he senses anything is off with me he will do his best to get my attention and distract me from it which helps so much.

I’m working on getting him harness trained so he can go out with me and get registered as a proper emotional aid animal. Any time anyone tells me a bird can’t be an aid animal, I just laugh at them because they’ve never seen little Nero in action. He is a great helper bird!

This is an actual tweet by dennys

I recently got a diamond dove and I wanted to ask stuff beyond what I could find researching online: what will the first few weeks be like? Is there any effects a too small cage can have on the dove? (Bought the biggest I could with upgrades planned) when can I expect cooing if at all? Mine gain some weight/ looks fatter. Should I be worried/vet visit for that? And I haven't found much info on it- are there ways to hand train them? Or are they 100% against being touched and scritches? Thank you!

Diamonds are in the parrot boat of still being wild animals.

Their shorter maturation period has put them further along the path to domestication, but expecting unsocialized adults to accept being cuddled is asking too much of most of them.

Expect that it will be VERY quiet the first few weeks. Moving is harder on Diamonds than domesticated doves and it takes them a while to settle.

Once yours does, hand taming will be a VERY slow process. Diamonds are spooky and tiny and prone to panic, so don’t start until your interaction with its dishes or floor stops visibly scaring it.

When it’s at the point of ignoring your hands during feeding and maintainence, you can begin to very slowly reach for it from below.

This will take careful observation on your part, as you’ll need to withdraw again well before the Diamond EXPLODES into flight! At the first shift of its body away from your aproach, stop and withdraw.

It needs to learn that it can trust you to pick up on its discomfort and leave it be when it needs you to.

Eventually, it will lower its guard and let you get closer bit by tiny bit. When it does, try to touch its feet before anything else and coax it gently to step up and sit on your finger.

Diamonds being still basically wild means that they haven’t been adapted to confinement the way Pigeons and Ringnecks have. They need space to legitimately fly so that they don’t atrophy. And being too confined will make a neurotic mess of a Diamond!

Telling a fat diamond from a contentedly fluffy one is tricky without a gram scale.Average weight for an adult is about 32grams, which is less than a one week old Ringneck.

If the Diamond is poofballed, it may be ill or cold.

Diamonds can and do stress to death at the drop of a hat, so fiddle with the temperature and up its feed a little before you take it to the vet.

When traveling with a Diamond that hasn’t been trained for it, use either a dark box or a cloth carrier wrapped in a towel.Being in the dark is like an off button for birds. They automatically go to sleep, which negates a lot of the stress of travel.

Lord of the lorikeets

People need to realize that there’s a difference between straight people and Straight People™

I think one of the funniest things I’ve accidentally taught my parrot is yelling “WHAT?” The best part is that if he says something weird and and someone else says “what???” he usually repeats what he just said. Like just now, I was cooking in the kitchen and he heard me boiling water so he asked “you wanna noodle?” but I couldn’t quite hear him so I yelled “WHAT” and he repeated “you wanna noodle?”

Mostly he just likes yelling it, though.

So pretty 😌

Our Senses of Humor 🤣 (W/ @jonerstrokes… legit laughter here XD)

crabs are so gentle, they can be so kind. their claws? precise little things, so careful in the sand, so careful with food. they do what they must to live and wave their claws to express their joy to the world for giving so much to them, for giving such kindness to these creatures known as crabs. please be gentle to crabs

need to buy ants in bulk looking to buy big healthy ants for my ant pit please reblog with your best offer I need these ants very fast

Hummingbirds

Just a PSA for everyone!! With spring coming around and the humming birds migrating back in. I just want to warn everyone do NOT no matter what use the “premade” red humming bird food. The red dye in the food is causing seizures and death among the birds. Instead you can make your own! Just use 2 cups water and half cup sugar! 

She a sleepy brib

Because it’s only Tuesday.

A Jambu Fruit Dove. Such a pretty little bird.

(Photographed in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.)

I picked up a worm, and it wrote something in my hand with a tiny pencil. Unfortunately it was too small to read. An autograph? A spell? An angry note?

Anyway I’m starting my own Pokémon villain team. We’ll be Team Parroteers of course. We specialize in flying types and our logo is a giant zygodactyl footprint.

We aren’t even villains, we just always happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It started out as a bird Pokémon watching group, and a series of small clumsy disasters inadvertently puts us in the middle of some kind of region-altering event.

Every act of accidental villainy is followed by “oh geez sorry” and any attempt to fix it just seems to make it worse. Basically we’re in competition with Team Skull for least intimidating villain team.

Our team colors would be gray, yellow, and orange like Pepper. People always know we’re coming by the squawks they hear in the distance.

Like or reblog to apply to be a Parroteer Grunt. (You don’t even have to apply, we just take everyone)

Heather Penn on inprnt and Tumblr

More like this

reblog if you dont scream at 5am

trying to prove a point to birds

did anyone see that video of the guy who was like “im really good at finding moles” and hes saying that hes gonna pull a mole right out of the ground and for a few seconds youre like ok whats the joke and then he just squats down to the grass and and jams his fist into the ground and pulls a mole up

i think about it so much

Bird cards. Caws why not?

If my birds were to send out Valentine’s Day cards

Reblog for birds. Keep scrolling to continue a sad, avian deprived existence.

Who’s brave enough to reblog or repost

This one contains NSFW language, so don’t play loudly if you’re at work. But do play. You’ll enjoy.

The most colourful island in the Pelago.