Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!husc6!bbn!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ur-valhalla!miller From: miller@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu (Ruth Miller) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Hookbills Message-ID: <1521@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> Date: 13 Oct 88 20:23:20 GMT References: <1103@leah.Albany.Edu> Sender: usenet@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu Reply-To: miller@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu (Ruth Miller) Organization: UR Dept. of Electrical Engg, Rochester NY 14627 Lines: 20 I bet you don't know what "unfriendly as possible" means! Try threatening a lovebird who thinks the paper bag she's in is her nest! Did you know birds hiss, just like cats? On another question, our Fischers cost $50 each. Peach-faced ones are usually cheaper in the pet stores here (NY)--around $40 or a bit less. I'm not in touch with any breeders, but the pet store I frequent has had Lutino Peach-faces on and off -- about one every month or two. Almost always hand-raised, always cute, and priced about $200. As I understand it, a hand-raised lovebird is about the friendliest thing going, though the cockatoo sounds like a very nice bird. Does he like strangers? On waking birds up--our birds wake up slowly too--it usually takes them a few minutes to become cordial if you suddenly turn on lights in the dark. Mornings, they are up before we are, so that is not a problem. Is the cockatiel a baby? The ones I've seen here, they get used to people before they sell them, but unfortunately that doesn't work with grown lovebirds. --Ruth Miller