I am so delighted to find the parrot training blog and this forum. My husband and I are relatively new bird parents--we have lived with a Jardine's parrot for about 7 months now and we just adore him. We think he's about a year old but don't know his hatch date. He was weaned when he came to live with us.
I look forward to learning about bird husbandry and behavior from this forum!
Newbie delurking to say hi!
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Newbie delurking to say hi!
by simka » Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:27 am
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Re: Newbie delurking to say hi!
by simka » Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:32 am
P.S. Here's a picture of our little guy assisting us in a game of rummikub.
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Re: Newbie delurking to say hi!
by karcar » Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:27 pm
Hello Simka and Welcome,
What a cute little guy you have there, I am going to have to do a search on a jardine I don't know a lot about them.
Karen
What a cute little guy you have there, I am going to have to do a search on a jardine I don't know a lot about them.
Karen
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Re: Newbie delurking to say hi!
by pchela » Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:28 pm
Nice! Another Jardine's owner that I can share stories with! He's adorable!
"I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF!" ~ Jack Handy ~ Deep Thoughts
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Re: Newbie delurking to say hi!
by Michael » Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:29 am
pchela wrote:Nice! Another Jardine's owner that I can share stories with! He's adorable!
And I bet this one has a name too!
Welcome.
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Re: Newbie delurking to say hi!
by lzver » Mon Sep 20, 2010 11:39 am
Michael wrote:pchela wrote:Nice! Another Jardine's owner that I can share stories with! He's adorable!
And I bet this one has a name too!
Sorry pchela, I can't resist laughing. That was funny Michael
Welcome to the board Simka. Your Jardine's is so cute!
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Re: Newbie delurking to say hi!
by pchela » Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:03 pm
Michael wrote:pchela wrote:Nice! Another Jardine's owner that I can share stories with! He's adorable!
And I bet this one has a name too!
Note to self. Find something to give Michael a hard time about.
You know this is your fault right? You did take a very cool name out of the running. Say... how 'bout Namurt?
So, what is the Jardine's in this threads name? Also, when did he develop the orange on his forehead? That might help determine his age.
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Re: Newbie delurking to say hi!
by simka » Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:01 am
hi, everybody!
Our little charmer is named Kalki--I can't believe I omitted such an important piece of information! It is pronounced "khul-key" but he says "kulwee" or occasionally "cookie."
Kalki is a name from Hinduism -- he is the tenth incarnation of the god Vishnu, sometimes depicted as a winged horse.
We brought him home but heard different things about his age from the breeders/bird store folks. One person said six weeks. The other said six months. He had the merest hint of orange--2-3 of the teesy head feathers when he came to live with us. He's has been molting in new feathers sporadically since then. I think I may have spotted a new area of orange coming in further back on his head.
He was clipped by the breeder but some flight feathers have come in. Although he doesn't get much loft, he glides down with grace, sometimes as far as 15 feet. He looks like he might be learning to introduce some intentional curves to his flight path, too.
Simka
Our little charmer is named Kalki--I can't believe I omitted such an important piece of information! It is pronounced "khul-key" but he says "kulwee" or occasionally "cookie."
Kalki is a name from Hinduism -- he is the tenth incarnation of the god Vishnu, sometimes depicted as a winged horse.
We brought him home but heard different things about his age from the breeders/bird store folks. One person said six weeks. The other said six months. He had the merest hint of orange--2-3 of the teesy head feathers when he came to live with us. He's has been molting in new feathers sporadically since then. I think I may have spotted a new area of orange coming in further back on his head.
He was clipped by the breeder but some flight feathers have come in. Although he doesn't get much loft, he glides down with grace, sometimes as far as 15 feet. He looks like he might be learning to introduce some intentional curves to his flight path, too.
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