Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!hsdndev!cmcl2!acf5!gonzalez
From: gonzalez@acf5.NYU.EDU (maria gonzalez)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: New cockatiel
Keywords: Cockatiel
Message-ID: <1417@acf5.NYU.EDU>
Date: 14 Dec 90 02:20:25 GMT
Organization: New York University
Lines: 20

Hi -
   I need some help and thought all of you might be able to help me.
I have recently become a new pet owner of a six year old cockatiel and would
really appreciate some helpful hints.  My bird is a female about six years old
and not very tame.  She spends most of her time on top of the cage but 
hisses everytime I get near her, though she has stopped biting very hard
when I pick her up.  My question - will she eventually get tame enough to
interact with me?? Should I get a younger bird and will this bird's tameness
rub off on her?  What are my options??

	Also I do volunter work at a zoo and I am very worried about taking 
any bird from the wild;  so are most (all) cockatiels bred in captivity?  
What should I check for to make sure?????

			Thank you for all your help.

			Maria  (new pet owner)
			Guenever (new Cockatiel)

(maria@nyu.edu)