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From: mary@dinorah.wustl.edu (Mary E. Leibach)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: pet birds that have the fly of the house
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Date: 19 Oct 89 17:13:55 GMT
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In-reply-to: bsp@hpfibsp.HP.COM's message of 16 Oct 89 19:26:21 GMT

bsp@hpfibsp.HP.COM (Bruce Spence) writes:

>Our three bird friends (a cockatiel, a
>green-cheek conure and a white-front amazon)

Ah, another cockatiel AND green cheek owner/ee.  (Vila is green
cheek/maroon belly hybrid, but close enough.)  How do those two get
along?  Cally and Vila (the terrible twosome in recent postings) go
the whole spectrum from fights to communal preening in about five
minutes.  I don't know who is tops in the pecking order, Vila chases
Cally around, but Cally will bully Vila till he preens him.  They like
each other though, they are just too macho to let anyone else know it.
:-)

>(Sometimes I wonder who is supervising whom! ;-} )

The birds are supervising you, silly.  

>The green-cheek flies very little, and then only short distances;  I suspect
>s/he would suffer little from *being* clipped.

Vila too.  People express is much more fun.

>  The cockatiel, on the other hand, being a nomadic beast by nature, flies a
>great deal and seems to love it.

Just like Cally.

Have you figured out what it means when a conure bobs his head and
jumps up and down at you?  Or what spreading the tail, fluffing the
head feathers, and struting up and down a perch means?  Or putting his
tail up, and shoving his rear against your hand, or anything else?  I
would like to know.

	-Mary, 
		and Cally the Precocious Cockatiel(tm), 
		and Vila the Cudly Conure(tm),
		and Blake the Beautiful Budgie(tm),

	and introducing Del and Dayna, the Fertile (we hope) Finches(tm)!

	 Better known as      Blake's Birds(tm)!
	
	 Dedicated to the memory of the British SF show Blake's 7, and
	 the liberty and rights of pet birds!


Hatching any day now!