Today something very strange happened. Manu (about 4 months old) was sitting happily on my shoulder, before suddenly freaking out. He squawked like he was in pain and flapped about, flying to the ground after a few seconds, and then completely calming down. Seconds later he was back to normal...

Today I wanted to take my cockatiel Raiden out of the cage since she had been nagging me all morning. I approached the cage in which she and and my other female cockatiel Ray are residing, everything was normal until I tried to let her climb on my finger like usual. All of a sudden she freaked...