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Cooked Bird Food for Holiday Parrot Joy

Most parrots love cooked bird food regardless of the season.  But, what bird lover can be cooking up a delicious holiday meal and serve their bird dry pellets or seeds?  Warm cooked bird food recipes or even prepared mixes may offer your parrot comfort as it deals with the stresses involved with having a houseful [...]

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Birds Gobble Up Bird Mash Recipe

Whole Grain Bird Mash 1 cups kamut 1 teaspoon of turmeric 1 cinnamon stick 3/4 cups quinoa 3/4 cups amaranth 1/2 cup frozen sweet potato cubes 8 oz. frozen organic organic vegetables, mixed or stir fry 8 oz. frozen organic mixed greens esp. kale, collard, mustard greens 1/2 cup raw, unsalted pumpkin seeds 1/2 can [...]

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Bird Care Tips: Grim Reality of Self Cleaning Ovens for Parrots

Who want’s a bunch of family coming over, cooking a bird, no less, with a crusty, dirty oven?  Most of us want our kitchen looking good before our holiday guests’ arrive.  But, bird care  means that you have to be cautious about self cleaning ovens.  They can easily kill your pet bird without proper ventilation. [...]

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4 Tips for Evacuating Parrots in the next Superstorm

This past week of Hurricane Sandy has certainly been scary for everyone.  If you’re a real parrot lover,  than you know the sense of panic that sets in when faced with evacuating parrots.  We had to evacuate 7 parrots in the Summer of 2012 and we’ve done a lot of research on how to prepare. [...]

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Top 5 Bird Treats for Training Bird Tricks

No doubt about it.  Animal training techniques have been studied to a science.  Research shows that positive animal bird training techniques work. Zoo’s do it.  Animal shows in Vegas and on ships do it.  You can train your parrot to be a fun pet bird and wonderful companion easily with just 30 minutes or less [...]

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Java Play Stands: Tray Maintenance

We’ve owned Java Play Stands for 5 +years.  Our African Grey Parrots, Amazon and Cockatoo have used our Java Play Stands on a daily basis.  That’s 5 birds! Sometimes 3 birds are on one bird stand.  This bird stand is hands down, the best, most enriching bird stand we know of.  A real tree opposed [...]

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Bird Tricks & Treats

Birds can trick or treat, too! Learn how to use bird treats to teach bird tricks.

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New Bird Toys!

Columbus sailed the ocean blue to bring your Polly new bird toys to chew!   This October, BirdSupplies.com tells us…”Our new bird toys have docked and are ready to ship!  Check out these new bird toys and bird training perch from Super Bird Creations, Paradise and Platinum Toys. ”  Super Bird Creations new seagrass line is very [...]

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Natrapet Bird Bath

Bird Bath Spray:  Relieve Dry Itchy Skin with Natural Parrot Preening Oil Natrapet Bird Bath is a new alcohol free,  vitamin-fortified Bird Bath Spray with unique plumage and skin conditioning spray that contains NATURAL PREEN OIL.  It cleans and softens feathers, bringing out the natural shine and healthly luster.  Plus, Natrapet moisturizes skin and feathers [...]

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International Bird Rescue Operation Chooses BirdSupplies.com

After our horrific  2012 Colorado Springs fire summer of having to evacuate our own flock of parrots and dogs at BirdSupplies.com,  we get the fear that hurricane “ISAAC” is creating in the Caribbean and East coast.  Our hearts especially go out to Haiti and surrounding islands.  Last night, I wondered about how the Puerto Rican [...]

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