All You Want to Know About Cockatiels as Pets!

The Cockatiel

A well-known secret of every cockatiel owner is that these birds are just as companionable as dogs or cats, and have unique personalities that can be read by their expressive faces. My first experience with a cockatiel was when I was a young teenager, starting out down my neighborhood street for a walk. I was astonished to hear a unique bird call-- like a parrot, or a tropical bird, I thought-- so I followed my ears to a pigeon-sized gray bird who was pecking at gravel in the gutter. He ran towards me when I came closer. I knew he had to be someone's pet bird, as his orange blush and yellow crest set him apart from every other wild bird I knew of, and his eagerness to see me showed me that he was tame. His face was bright and intelligent. He looked me in the eye and tipped his head to figure me out.

I carried him home and put him under a large salad spinner with some seeds and apples, then led a crusade of neighborhood kids to ring doorbells and inquire until we could find the owner. Different people gave us different clues, but we were eventually led to people who knew other people who had birds, and finally we ended up at the home of the owner of "Kiwi," the name of their lost cockatiel. They were thrilled to be reunited with their chipper little bird, and they rewarded me with a twenty dollar bill and an armful of TY Beanie Babies. Kiwi was a cute little bird, and I loved how openly and winningly he interacted with his owners. Maybe, someday, I would get my own little Kiwi to have and to hold, I thought.

Different Types of Birds According to Their Diets

A good understanding of the foods birds eat can help us to get them nearer to us. Birds help to add life to the trees in your backyard, put some natural sounds in your surroundings, and simply make you feel close to nature. Different types of birds eat different kinds of foods.

If you are able to discover what types of foods the birds are eating in your place, you might be able to use these foods to make them come nearer to your place. Here are the types of birds based on the food they eat:

Avivores

Avivorous birds are simply birds of prey; they eat other birds in order to live. These birds, which include hawks, falcons, and crows, are characterized by strong wings, legs and talons. They are agile fliers that pursue smaller birds and grab the smaller ones with their claws.

Tips For A Spacious And Attractive Aviary In Your Yard

Space and Sunlight For Your Tuneful Birds

Birds- your colorful tuneful and gentle pets. If you want to keep them in your yard, give them more space to move around and exercise. Then can they sing even more sweetly and give you more pleasure. Other than a traditional cage, place your birds in an aviary. Birds need to be healthy, and an aviary offers an environment wherein your pets get exposed to sunlight and fresh air. Unfiltered sunlight breaking through the aviary provides birds with Vitamin D3, an important nutrient for vitality.

What kind of aviary do your birds need? Depending on the specie, you can build an aviary to protect your birds from weather and climate, or simply as an outdoor play habitat. You can connect the structure to your house, either a patio or solarium- type aviary. Your pet's living area can also be a free- standing facility in your yard, resembling a greenhouse or a chicken coop or barn.

The Right Width, Height and Length

What is the right size for your aviary? The correct measures of an aviary according to veteran aviculturist Jerry McCawly, are that the width of the aviary should be 2- 3 times the wing span of your pets, and the

Cage Vs Aviaries: Which One Should You Choose?

It's aquariums for most but for some, its aviaries. Pet lovers tend to relax more and feel calmer when they watch their pets in action and nothing promises more action than watching colorful birds of different species take flight and belt out a cacophony of sounds in birdsongs.

The thing is, people tend to confuse aviaries with bird cages, thinking that they're one and the same thing. For the clueless and for those who want to know the difference between each, aviaries are large enclosures for confining birds but have larger living spaces than cages. Aviaries also allow birds more space to fly and are usually designed to mimic a bird's natural habitat. Because these cages allow birds to fly, they are sometimes referred to as flight cages. Plus, aviaries will also allow you to house a number of bird species.

Bird cages on the other hand, are cages designed to house birds as pets. They are often considered too small to house more than two complimenting species at a time and are more often than not, used more for home décor without live birds in it, unlike aviaries. Cages are also too small for birds to have any flying space and choosing cages also depends on the size and species of birds you want to get.