Videos of Ellen's birds (el-parrot)

[el-parrot]

Today I took a walk together with Paulie, my quaker parrot.
Please know that - when I take my birds out for a walk - they are very well clipped. Here in Holland we do have less birds of pray, they don't go out that often, when I plan to take one of them out, I always check there wings, and last but not least. They are very well trained to go outside with me and stay with me, no matter what.

[Michael]

Thank you for mentioning that. Nice video. BTW it's birds of prey.

[el-parrot]

Thank you for mentioning that. Nice video. BTW it's birds of prey.

and thanks for mentioning.. ha ha.. pray is something totally different.

[el-parrot]

New video taken today.. the 3 bigger babies here sat next to each other for just a short while. Aren't they brave? LOL.

They are very good used to each other so.. I can imagine seeing this movie you think that it is dangerous to put them together this way, but I do this now and than, to let them get used to each other and respect each other. Also took some photos .. will post some of them in the other topic.

[Michael]

That's cool but they look a little on edge. You can see them leaning away from each other. How far apart do they need to be before they relax and just go about being a parrot? I know I've been able to progressively reduce that minimal distance between my birds with similar interactions.

[el-parrot]

That's cool but they look a little on edge. You can see them leaning away from each other. How far apart do they need to be before they relax and just go about being a parrot? I know I've been able to progressively reduce that minimal distance between my birds with similar interactions.

nothings the matter here in the video... it was only for a few minutes. My birds are used to each other and aren't aggressive towards each other. And??? I am the only person here who do know her birds. I don't think I have to apologize about this, so I won't LOL

[Michael]

I'm not accusing you. I'm just curious how far apart they need to be to be 100% comfortable and go back to preening/playing?

[el-parrot]

I'm not accusing you. I'm just curious how far apart they need to be to be 100% comfortable and go back to preening/playing?

Okay. sorry than Michael. It sounded a bit accusing to me. These three birds have of course each their own cage and they play a lot on their cage. Sometimes I put my quaker on the cage of my sennie. That goes fine, but if they are too near to each other than my sennie will try to 'get rid of the quaker'.. not aggressively but just telling him, don't go any further.
I also have a playtree and they are also on it together regularly but that playtree is big enough for each to feel free and play and climb around (and than I mean the sennie and the quaker. I never put the three of them on the playtree together. Some other moments my quaker and my grey are together on that playtree. They accept each other very good). Actually were they sat here in the movie is the play area of my lovebirds. Because of the light background I put these birds there for some minutes to take photos and 2 movies. The funniest thing of all is that my quaker and my grey like each other a lot and they are so different in size and parrot.