Hello, new cockatiel owner! I have a 4 month old lutino named Orion and right now, he hates having his feet touched. Will accept head scratches but otherwise will get defensive if I try to make him step up. He doesn't have interest exploring outside the cage and I CAN take him out but that's...

Greetings! I have an 8 year old male cockatiel that absolutely adores me. I know it's a wonderful thing. However, the issue is that I feel very guilty leaving him to go on vacation. When I leave him at my parent's house, he constantly yells and screams for me all day long. They do their best...

Hello! I need some help. I have a female cockatiel named pika she’s been pretty good except sometimes chirping loudly being hormonal I thought she might like a friend. My sister couldn’t keep her bird so I adopted her female cockatiel Luna. Both only a couple years old Pika is more laid back and...

This is baby dino. He or she is 20 days old. The droppings were not okay and there is a small chance that he/she won't survive. Growth has been going very well though and it's alert and active. Stretching and flapping wings every now and then. If anyone can estimate the gender please post them...

I have a pied cockatiel and I'm trying to identify the gender. Theres a few things to suggest 1 over the other but then it's the same the other direction. Anyways I'll provide some pictures. The one on the left is a males.

Hello, I am new to the community and am hoping that I may call on all you cockatiel owners and enthusiasts for help. I must admit that I am desperate. My male cockatiel is nearing ten years old and is a truly wonderful, friendly, and affectionate bird when he’s not hormonal. Unfortunately...

My handraised female and semi tame male cockatiel are 2 and 3 years old and ready to mate. However today my female performed a mating call, not to my male, but when she was with me?! Does she not like the male, or does she and I've just taken her out at a bad time? The male, is constantly...

I apologise in advance for the long post. A relative bought a pair of cockatiels in March of this year. Two weeks after, one of them had a seizure and sadly passed away with no one ever finding out what had happened to it. The other one seemed to thrive from this day forward, and all was okay...

I apologise in advance for the long post. A relative bought a pair of cockatiels in March of this year. Two weeks after, one of them had a seizure and sadly passed away with no one ever finding out what had happened to it. The other one seemed to thrive from this day forward, and all was okay...

Hi all, I have had a couple of cockatiels, and this is my second. His name is cosmo, and he is between 10-12 years old. I have been doing some research, and I am worried that he is lonely. Does he need a companion? Thank you :)

hello i just cale back from school and picked up my cockatiel from it’s cafe but when he flew i got splashed with blood and found blood near the cage help please

Hello all! I have a stubborn yet affectionate female cockatiel who won't stop climbing her cage after I placed her food container at the bottom. Her food container was located at the top right of the cage. She usually sits on top of it and frequently poops on her seeds. I didn't want her to...

Lets start a cockatiel name and/or photo reply chain. I’ll go first

i just adopted this cockatiel nearly 3 weeks ago but i don’t know if he is okd or not thank you

Hi all, I very recently started fostering. I grew up with a few types of birds - budgies, a lovebird, then my mom had a grey shortly before I moved out. I'd been pet-less since then, for about the past decade. Wanting to try having a bird again, I decided to foster and my husband was okay with...

i just brought a cockatiel home i already had two budgies and i don’t know if it’s poop is normal here is a picture below https://ibb.co/Wkz8Kf7 thank you for your help

I cant remove the formula stuck on my baby birds neck i need to use force but I'm afraid i will hurt my bird, i tried warm paper towels and thin stick to separate them and soaking it with water but still i cant remove them, what will happen to my baby bird? Will the feathers fall and regrow another?

Hello, A baby cockatiel was hand fed and the formula was pushed down the left side of the cockatiels mouth. Did it go down the wind pipe? What do I do? I’m so scared.

This morning I made myself some oatmeal with banana, organic steel cut oats, oatmilk, a touch of powdered Cinammon from the Badia brand, and a lemon peel. My tiel sneakily started tasting my breakfast and seemed to LOVE it. He would not stop taking little bites out of the oats. I let him have a...

So my cockatiel does what you can see in the photo and normally is just for a bit or until i open the cage so i think it's a sort of attention-seeking behaviour just to get out of the cage but i want to make sure it's nothing serious. Anybody knows what is it and why she does it?