Teaching Birds To Forage | Topics

[@TheParrotTeacher]

Such a valuable activity for enrichment with birds! Many people seem to expect birds to just sit around when there's so many fun things they can be doing!

[@cowgirl_406]

Oh my god hi!! Didn’t think I’d see you here! 🦜

[@TheParrotTeacher]

@@cowgirl_406 We always watch bird content! It's good to see what other people do and learn !

[@-robo-]

Our Parrotlets could be twins lol. I just love making new perches and toys for Lilly. My next project for her is learning how to steam/bend wood for even more custom stuffs. Here is an idea for a video (or even a book!): Origami is for the Birds. Featuring origami art that is great for foraging birds. This could Include the best types of paper to use, DIY food save glues, food safe ink. Like beet juice, cherry juice, as well as corn starch or flower for glues. (A book could feature laser print/cut designs with fold and cut marks, recopies etc.)

[@dollybelledendrobium813]

Perfect timing on this video! Thanks for the all tips, as always

[@anmakes4520]

really, more people should realize that birds need to forage, some bird owners probably don't even know what foraging is! Do your research and watch flock-talk, peeps

[@amyburke2989]

My gray is far more confident with new things now and is advancing rapidly in her foraging capabilities. I have an older gcc I just adopted so I’m starting over with him.

[@archiesflock7517]

It’s pretty crazy how many people don’t think bird need to at all - isn’t it just common sense?

[@buddythebird244]

I agree

[@charliesflock659]

This helps so much! None of my birds like toys, it was easy to get my baby cockatiel to forage, and after a wile I got my female cockatiel to play and chew on toys. My budgies didn’t like it at all, but my little budgie (lemon) saw Charlie (male cockatiel) chewing, he was interested and would go over and nibble on that foot toy. I also found that all my birds love cork 😂. Lemon now chews on toys more requalary, not a ton but it is progress. And now lime has an interest in cork and I am hopping that will lead to more playing with toys. I also love the bowl foraging trick. I tie two plates togesther, and add some holes. Then stuff it with tons of toys and crinkle paper. It is my birds favorite activity

[@gptxmaur1c1o05]

Early bird gang

[@caryelizabeth624]

So many great tips here! Vine balls can also be used kinda like the finger traps are used here! My cockatiels love foraging for millet out of vine balls! They can see the millet, but have to break through the vines to get to it!

[@derind9191]

I like the eye makeup.

[@nazadi853]

Could you include a link of where to buy the mini drawers? I've been searching Amazon and haven't had any lucks Thank you thank you for the awesome videos. Can't get enough of them 🖤🧡

[@nazadi853]

@d nuzzio ahhh ok I'll give it another search. Thanks 🥳😊

[@esoteric9333]

I believe that particular brand no longer makes that toy. Depending on species, some of the larger ones that are widely available may work, but budgies, tiels, parrotlet, greencheeks, etc may have trouble with them

[@nazadi853]

@@esoteric9333 and THAT is exactly my problem! I can't find anything small enough for my baby Gcc that have a decent review. Thank you for clarifying that

[@nonothingnever]

Higher level foraging toys for small birds are notoriously difficult to find.

[@buddythebird244]

I love your channel and I really like that you post very often. You deserve a lot more subscribers, views, and likes! Everyone needs you to know about birds

[@Heather-hv7me]

I haven't been on your channel in years! I'm so surprise and happy you got a green cheek conure as that is one of my favorite birds

[@livingandinteractingwithpe7937]

Hi

[@Thierry_Rat]

I bought a cockatiel about 5 months ago (she is my third bird) I would love to give foraging toys and things but she isn't very food motivated she seven months now and I've trained her just fine with only praise but she won't eat treats and she doesn't shred or even chew toys she just likes to hold them in her beak and favor plastic toys I took her to a vet and she is fine she hasn't learned how to use toys how do you think I should teach her. Sorry for the long comment I just want to make the best life for my bird. Love your vids Thanks for the tutorial

[@charliesflock659]

Especially if you your bird is bonded to, sit out side her cage and destroy a toy and make it look fun, if she starts to get intreasyed, let her out but don’t let her get the toy, this will peak her interest more bc she wants something she can’t have. You did say you have more birds, this is how I got my budgies to play with toys. Let your cockatiels play with a easy shredding toy. (Kabob or something softer) make sure your bird is interested and let her watch the bird destroy it. Bc she is a baby she probably doesn’t know how to play with toys and having a flock or just other birds teach her! Good luck!

[@ris8065]

If they eat any dry food (like pellets) at any point you could try adding a little bit of crinkled paper on top of it and gradually add a little bit more until they’re pulling small toys and paper out of their dish to get their dry food. I wouldn’t do it with veggies though since they go bad pretty quick.

[@Thierry_Rat]

@@charliesflock659 thank you so much I'll see if this works, and I do think the other birds will reach her

[@Thierry_Rat]

@@ris8065 thank you that's a great idea I'll be sure to try it.

[@DoodleCat54]

0:46 F L I P

[@djcripel]

So informative!! Always great content!

[@sarahschultz6272]

I love your videos!!! I discovered you this weekend and think you do a fantastic job discussing the proper care for pet birds. I have a parrotlet as well and I will definitely be watching all your videos to learn as much as possible about how to make his life as wonderful as possible! Thank you ☺️

[@kenziel7575]

Thank you for posting this!!! I love your hair! Your videos are so helpful for me and my budgie

[@Turtletoots3]

How would you approach traumatised birds that are scared of you for justifyable (from their perspective) reasons. We had to medicate one of them the first week we got them as one was ill, it's been 1.5 years and everytime I try something new I end up going backwards with them which takes forever to undo but if I don't do anything, they will never go out of their comfort zone foodwise and interaction wise. I feel like such a failure not being able to earn their trust and not being able to get them to really eat a variety of vegetables.

[@yamunadevi68]

Hi, thank you so much for this video, I was wondering if you could give an idea with treats like sunflower seeds how many a Conure should have as a foraging treat a day, no sunflowers are added to her chop, or her sprouted meal, they are only used as treats to forage?

[@icanhazKnit]

I love watching Mia and Newt hang off of toys. My quaker doesn’t do that yet, but he also has a healing broken leg that has set him back a bit in mobility. It took him awhile to start shredding through his planet pleasures pineapple toy, but he got a cashew this morning and I am SO PROUD.

[@fatimaa4741]

I love quakers

[@Laura-ql2nm]

On your next video could you please teach us how to trim their nails or what to do? I have 2 budgies and their nails a very long that practically touch each other! Or do I just leave them alone?... thanks!

[@judymcintire8061]

This is so helpful! Love your videos! 🤗🐦

[@jacobcz9872]

So cute what kind of bird is this

[@sofikamusic]

Mia, tha small blue bird is a parrotlet. (Pacific if I’m not mistaken) and Newt the big green one is either a green cheek or maroon bellied conure. There is another video on this channel titled “meet the flock” and I think you could probably find more info there.

[@starletd6819]

How would you recommend going about changing a bird's cage? I have one budgie and I've had her for around 2 years now and she is pretty tame and I want to upgrade her cage to this bigger flight cage but I'm not sure how to go about it. I worry that she will be scared of the new cage or miss her old one. This may be a really simple thing idk. Any tips? Love your vids and I would be so grateful if you answer ❤

[@pinkmacaroon8950]

Tysm I'm planning on getting two budgies so this should really help!😊

[@dianasaur2131]

Kermmy doing flips in the background ahhh

[@m3lsavage]

how do you clean all the toys?

[@megsutube1815]

Thank you for such a great video. My birds have gotten so smart that they find everything out in the open quickly. I have 2 budgies and a green Cheek Conure. When I hide seeds in a toy like the planet pleasure pineapple, they don't understand that they should tear apart the toys to get to the seeds, even when they know that the seeds are there. I'm in a quandry. Part of me thinks maybe it's good that they don't know to tear things up and then again these toys are basically useless unless they do... Also, Do your birds like each other?

[@jood7094]

What do you use as treats for parrotlet?

[@missluna]

Thank you for this video

[@arii5151]

Is your blue bird a parrotlet because its so cute!

[@bolt1437]

Pacific Parrotlet.

[@gabrie11a.amandaa]

My birds have this small wood box with tissue paper stacked treats in between but they still decide to search their perches and ignore all their toys

[@candicet5973]

Hi I am new here I watched your video on the diy foraging toy and does the tissue toy work for birds that are new to foraging because my budgie didn't try it yet

[@aquavita1]

Thank you for an educational video. Can you please a video about how you deal with people visiting. My GC conure is super sweet with us, he is very quite and doesn't bite us, but when people come over they often want us to take the bird out. However, it makes me nervous, because, even if he behaves with us, he can easily bite strangers. Should we avoid to take him out with other people around? Is there is a way to teach him to be friendly with strangers?

[@bolt1437]

I'd simply say no to the guests. GC usually don't like more than a few people and may bite in that scenario.

[@sophiabultena6781]

Any tips for lorikeets our newest flock member (#8 and final lol) Panzzi doesn't forage much he is a 3 year old rainbow lorikeet. I provide safe blooms for him and a foraging tray. Will these tips apply to him as well?

[@FlockTalk]

Same main tips apply, I would hide more pollen beads and blooms over seeds though!

[@brads215]

What kind of bird is that little blue one?

[@FlockTalk]

Pacific parrotlet

[@crazy-jk5si]

My love small seeds but ignore large seeds

[@desikaraoke2632]

Thank you for your video. And these are amazing

[@Venus_nd_Me]

Thank you And I loved your make-up 😍

[@snowandlemon439]

Same

[@zmaya007]

hi! i have a lovebird, it's been with us for 2 months. it's fairly tame, occasional bites when it's nervous. BUT, he/she is showing no interest for any kind of toys. we tried with wooden toys, rope toys, nothing. also, he/she doesn't bite anything hard - cardboard or wood, just plain paper (and our fingers :)) vegetables or fruit are also a big no. i watched your video about picky birds and it gave me some ideas :) maybe not enough time has passed so the bird is still not accustomed to us or it's a bird with strong character :) the cage is open all day long - he/she doesn't like being inside, but he/she just sits/sleeps on top of the cage (and screams from time to time). no interest in playing (with toys or with us) or foraging whatsoever. the cage is in the dining room and there is always someone in so the bird is not alone. he/she doesn't seem sick, but i'm beginning to worry. do you have some advice? tnx

[@brunaguasti]

Great content as usual ❤

[@damlakubal2886]

So happy to be early!!! ☺️🍀

[@korecob5761]

Hi so im getting budgies but i cant get my mom to understand that they need to also be out of the cage idk how to make her understand Btw thxs for this video very helpful

[@Raven-ci8pk]

Just say that they need flying exercise that they cannot have In their cage as it is too smal

[@ris8065]

Try bringing up budgies like Puck (who still holds the world record for talking) as a way to show “hey these are actually really smart and need time outside of the cage alongside a really fun and good sized cage because they’re smart enough to know when they’re not being treated properly”

[@korecob5761]

@@ris8065 thank you for the advice ill try it out

[@incanusolorin2607]

Just don’t buy the animal if you can’t properly care for it. Wait until you have your own house and your own money, so you can provide all that they need to thrive, such as out of the cage time. It is selfish to buy birds just because you want to own them, without being able to provide everything they need.

[@korecob5761]

@@incanusolorin2607 yeah guess i gotta wait for 5 years to get a bird ( but my mom those understand how big the cage and all of that she is just scared that if i take them out they will fly away and i refuse to clip their wings)

[@ItsMe-lt6up]

Looking to sell my blue throated conure please contact me if u want to buy

[@jinhuajin9247]

Helllo your early parrot is here >:3

[@Euyew]

My bird forages through vegetables to find the seeds I mix in 😭😭😭😭😭

[@mehere8038]

yeh, that's basically what I'm doing too, leafy greens as the paper like substance for hiding everything, cause mine won't touch paper etc, but I have now got them moving leafy greens around, shredding them etc. I've just started using popcorn too now that they're getting the hang of it, one's picked that up really quickly with pulling it al out to get to the yummy stuff under it :)