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I figure this is the best place to ask, so... bird crazies, is there a polite way to tell a neighbor that their new bird needs to learn to shut up? The family in the apartment right above mine brought home a new pet bird a few days ago - don't know what kind - and it's started screeching and yelling its head off every evening when the sun goes down and sporadically after that. I don't know if my neighbors are home when this happens or not, but it's getting extremely irritating and I'm wondering if there's a good way to tell them their bird is a problem.
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Carfax Report posted:Is that a parent with chicks, or two different types of birds? Based on the sheer fuzziness of the little birds, I think it's the first option.
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Jun 30, 2014 16:43
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All this is making me start some research on potentially getting a pet bird when my apartment lease comes up for renewal. I'm not active enough to want a dog or keep one happy, but I'm considering a cat or bird (from the OP, a cockatiel sounds best for me) as a companion pet that won't mind that most of the time I'm at home, I'm at my computer desk.
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Aug 27, 2014 22:06
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I see. I was going more off their descriptions of temperament in the OP - I'm an apartment dweller who works evenings and have been looking into a pet that doesn't require being terribly active and lives for more than a year or two, so it's come down to birds or cats. I always had cats growing up, but I've always enjoyed watching birds and have lurked in this thread for a while for the pictures. Thank you for the advice, and I'll keep doing research. There are actually wild budgies around where I work.  Lots of feral budgie populations in coastal Florida, and a flock of them likes one of the palm trees outside the building where I work.
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Aug 28, 2014 00:14
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Another bird question for getting an impression of how loud/noisy they are in person - are bird shelters a thing like for cats and dogs, or am I better off going to a local pet store? Sorry if these are noob questions about birds - I know a lot about cats from growing up with them, but not so much about pet birds. Never knew anyone who had one aside from a godawful noisy cockatoo in the neighborhood that you could hear half a dozen houses down the road.
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Aug 28, 2014 03:04
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That bird desires the total extinction of mankind. I hope you're happy.
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Oct 2, 2014 19:40
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Me too. A Grey or a macaw used to be my heart's desire, but then I got a GCC and discovered most birds aren't as docile as an elderly ladytiel. I once had a neighbor with a macaw, and I currently live next to a decent-sized airport. The airport is quieter.
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Oct 17, 2014 21:58
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A flock of wild budgies has moved into the trees next to the building where I work (Florida - we have budgie populations throughout the state). They're fun to watch, but noisy as all get out and utterly impossible to take a good photo of. The mockingbirds seem to really, really hate them.
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Jan 20, 2015 17:48
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Agent355 posted:I had a large cage with I think 6 budgies in it at one point. I can only imagine the noise an entire tree of them would make. The burbly chatter from budgies is probably my favorite bird noise. We've already gotten a couple of complaints from students (I work at a university) about the CHEEPCHEEPCHEEP from the budgies and the aggrieved mockingbirds trying to evict them.
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Jan 20, 2015 22:16
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GoldStandardConure posted:I grew up in The Pilbara in WA, massive flocks of wild budgies and finches (and galahs) were just a regular every day thing. Its pretty cool going out for a walk in the bush and seeing a flock of about a billion budgies all burbling and flapping about. Wild budgies are common in parts of coastal Florida, but today was the first time I've seen them show up where I work. Fun to watch, but very, very loud most of the time. Kinda hope they'll stay. I have, however, come to the conclusion that birds are not the pet for me. Too smart and needy.
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Jan 21, 2015 03:15
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The budgie flock that set up shop in a tree near the building where I work is still there, a few days later. Looks like my university has picked up a bunch of parakeets living in the palmettos.  Not as noisy now, but still adorable to watch.
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Jan 24, 2015 01:09
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Feb 14, 2015 12:31
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:Out of curiosity, does anyone else's Chrome grind to a halt on this page? Takes forever to load and while it does, it's almost completely unresponsive. No other page in this thread does it, and even my other tabs are fine. Yeah, seems to be Grraarrgghh's lovebirds. I noticed the problems as soon as those were posted.
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Feb 21, 2015 03:42
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:They're crazy-smart animals. Off the top of my head, they've been reported to drop walnuts on crosswalks (specifically crosswalks!) so that cars will crush them, and then wait for a red light before flying down to collect their food. Cracked did a photoplasty article today about animals acting much smarter than we normally give them credit for. Crows account for about half the article, plus a couple of parrots.
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Feb 27, 2015 00:22
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Dreggon posted:can birds be gay? Yes, someone in the chicken thread was recently talking about how two of their roosters only want to boink each other rather than the hens.
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Mar 9, 2015 03:30
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Stuff like this is one of the reasons I decided birds were not for me when I was looking into getting a pet. I would prefer not to worry about my pet thinking I'm its mate.
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Apr 6, 2015 16:51
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Jun 11, 2015 15:35
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Crossposting from PYF.
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Jun 30, 2015 02:00
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painted bird posted:I mean, I genuinely looked into getting a 'too, so I can't throw any stones in this glass house. They're adorable and I want to be friends with one. I decline to get a pet liable to remove my fingers if wires in its brain get crossed.
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Jul 6, 2015 18:10
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painted bird posted:You could say that about a large dog, too. I'm a cat person. Looked into birds as pets, but then I read the description of birds as perpetual three year olds and said nope. They're adorable and I enjoy lurking in this thread reading about their antics, but I'm glad I don't own one. 
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Jul 6, 2015 20:18
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painted bird posted:I love cats, but the idea of a companion animal that can interact with me on the level a bird can is too much temptation. I'm fundamentally broken and I am going to end up with fifty large rescue parrots. Each to their own, I don't like the idea of a companion animal as needy and noisy as birds seem to be. Still, they're cute and many of the stories are amusing, but then people offhandedly mention their bird pooping on them and I am so very glad I don't actually own one.
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Jul 6, 2015 21:28
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PYF found something relevant to y'all.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:My great-grandmother enjoyed talking about The Wars (all of them) when there was lots of rationing, so, in their part of rural NSW, Parrot Pie and Pigeon Pie were not uncommon dinners. A friend of mine from semi-rural Australia has mentioned that his family occasionally makes stew out of wild cockatoos they shoot, considering them annoying pests.
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Jul 15, 2015 14:46
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Why is there a dildo in your bird cage?
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Jul 15, 2015 17:26
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Sekkira posted:what species they are. I sort the birds in this thread into a few varieties: green derp, white/yellow derp, big derp, and the occasional orange derp.
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Jul 23, 2015 14:38
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What is it you want us to do? Die... DIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE...
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Jul 28, 2015 18:58
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Wild budgies live all over the county where I am in Florida. They're not even a remarkable sight anymore, just little green birds that always travel in big flocks.
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Aug 28, 2015 00:01
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Coastal Florida also has wild peacocks in a lot of areas. Unlike the budgies, I'm not fond of the peafowl. Sure, the males are gorgeous, but they're incredibly stupid, loud, and poo poo everywhere.
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Aug 28, 2015 16:40
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:And her hair and probably everything you see in that photo. Tough call between y'all and the rabbit thread over who tries to turn the bigger rear end in a top hat in the animal kingdom into a pet. At least cat owners have the excuse of toxioplasmosis.
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Sep 26, 2015 16:51
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Crossposting from PYF, a bad idea if you have a cockatoo in the house: http://i.imgur.com/8yS5jEp.gifv
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Sep 28, 2015 21:29
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Trebuchet King posted:Yeah, I love budgie noises. As much appeal as the concept of a 'too has, space-wise I'm pretty much limited to a conure or a couple budgies. There's a petco (petsmart?) near my local Target and sometimes I go in just to watch/listen to the budgies. A flock of wild budgies lives on the campus of the university where I work. Most mornings when I walk in to work it's to the sound of cheepcheepcheepcheepcheepcheepcheepcheepcheepcheep.
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Oct 1, 2015 16:25
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Guard dogs may still be a thing, but there's apparently a promising future for guard parrots...
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Oct 10, 2015 21:09
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GoldStandardConure posted:If you startle an emu its likely to spaz the gently caress out for a few moments before running away, looking incredibly undignified while doing so. There are emu farms in Florida. I went to one on a school field trip once. As long as they're tame emus are chill as gently caress and friendly as long as you're not wearing anything shiny.
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anotherblownsave posted:I'm watching the ALCS, and the local news affiliate comes on during a commercial break (I'm in Boston) one of the stories they're going to cover on the 11pm news is "Wild Cockatoo holds neighborhood hostage" I'm going to have to DVR the news now. Florida already has thriving populations of wild budgies, pythos, peacocks, and emus. Over/under on when the state develops a cockatoo population?
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Oct 17, 2015 03:19
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Shakenbaker posted:We also have conures Little by little Florida is apparently turning into America's Australia. Edit: Terrible start to a new page, here's someone's pet bird. 
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Oct 17, 2015 13:04
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Cockatoos would probably take care of our retiree infestation though.
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Frogmanv2 posted:And rhino/elephant horns/tusks. And scales on some snakes and fish I think. Yep. It's called keratin.
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Nov 10, 2015 16:32
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Crossposting from PYF. 
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Thyrork posted:So I'm writing a fantasy story which birds will play a role. I'd appreciate any antidotes about "smart bird, best bird!", or... well, anything really! Plan to have them be one of my key fantastic creatures and they are based upon Magpies as a starting point. Depending on how smart they are, as someone generally interested in non-pet birds I'd recommend looking into real-world examples of crows and ravens being intelligent, because they're smarter than the average player in World of Warcraft: crows and ravens have been observed not simply talking to each other and using tools, but outright teaching each other how to make and use tools, avoid poison and traps, and which people will feed them versus which are mean to them, and this has been observed to spread across entire national populations of the birds.
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Nov 28, 2015 19:09
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Patrovsky posted:Obviously there should be something about the horror that is magpies in swooping season. They don't swoop at you if you feed them every now and then. Just pay your protection crackers and you'll be fine.
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GoldStandardConure posted:Once they trust you they get really bold. Translation: once you pay your protection crackers, they expect payment promptly when they send the head-bombers around.
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