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Hi, I am new to this site and need some advice regarding our 8 month old cockatiel that we've had for about 2 and a half months. He is our second cockatiel. The first is a year old, and we've had him since he was a baby. They are not yet friends, and we know they might never be. The problem...

I've been looking into getting a bird for about a year now, and I finally adopted a male lutino cockatiel last Thursday. His name is Blinky :D and he's cute, but very shy still. I've done so much research on their behavior and training etc. but reading about it has proven to be different than...

I was recently given a Cockatiel by a neighbor that was mistreating him. The poor little guy has been through a lot, one thing I know for sure is that he has a strong heart. Besides never cleaning his cage out for him, his food dishes had feces in them and the water too. Their was solid masses...

I got Chuckie in December of 2007 when he was about 3 months old. He is parent raised, so he's not very comfortable around people. I started to finger train him after a few weeks and I'd let him fly around my house (and now at my apartment), but when I had to leave home for college in 2009 (I...