Bad idea: Archimedes meets mirror.

[Rue]

Kim: Great minds think alike!

[HyperD]

Haha my sennie first tries to beak her reflection, after a while she gives up and bows her head for a scratch!


I must add this is when i take her to the mirror, there isn't one in her cage.

[tishihara1994]

dang it... i just bought a mirror today... oh well i'll just see the reactions from my little budgie

[Kim S]

Especially you, who's budgie is not yet tame, should definately NOT put a mirror in the cage. It will make the whole taming and training thing much much harder!

[Titanius]

Yea Jasper+mirror= raving maniac. It was money wasted to be honest. He became amazingly territorial when it was in cage and quote unquote fell in love with his reflection... When I took it out things almost instantly returned to normal.

[rebeccaturpeinen]

joey has a small mirror in his cage that he doesnt really care about, doesnt even look at it but we have a big one in the living room that he sees when he is out. should i not let him sit by the mirror? he doent attack... doesnt do anything really, just sits there. and he will take treats while he is sitting there too..... but maybe the taming would go faster if he didnt see the mirror every day?

[Kim S]

If he's not interested, it's not a problem. But its the first bird I hear about that doesnt destroy or hump the mirror.

[rebeccaturpeinen]

If he's not interested, it's not a problem. But its the first bird I hear about that doesnt destroy or hump the mirror.

he attacked another mirror we have in the livingroom but just for a little while and then he just sat there again looking at himself... maybe feeling a little bit foolish

i now tried touching the mirror when he is right beside it just to make sure there isnt a problem and he didnt really care.

[Sekica]

I have a bead mirror in the cage, and all five of my birds play with the bead part and for the most part ignore the mirror. There's also a bell mirror toy inside the cage, and only one tiel plays with that one, and that's only to to scratch his head with the bell. There's another mirror on the birdie window sill. That one is the funniest. The budgies play with it: one sits on it while the other drags it. They take turns getting rides until they drop the mirror on the floor. My tiels beak bang the mirrors, but they beak bang everything else, too, so nothing special there. I guess having more than one bird in the same cage nullifies the effects of mirrors.