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Important Information about The Perch
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A place to share your feedback and comments. We look forward to hearing your thoughts or suggestions to help make this message board the best that it can be. Want to us to know what you love or maybe even dont like as well? Here is the place to post it.
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Look here to see what our most current contest is, this is where you would participate in entering our contest and winners of them get prizes too!!! Come take a peek.
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Help with posting messages, getting registered, uploading pictures, etc.
Also tech talk...computers, browsers, gadgets, shareware, freeware etc.
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General Information
General, fun stuff...not always bird related
Let us know a little about yourself! Tell us about your fids, what brought you here, etc. :-) NO ADS ALLOWED - This is a "get-to-know everyone" type section.
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A place to talk about anything you like. (well almost anything) Going on a neat trip? Getting a new job, need prayers or good thoughts for yourself or someone in need in your family? Come here to share.....Anything :)
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ThePerch.net's own book club! We'll discuss monthly selections here.
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Features an interview of one of our members each month
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A place to say Happy Birthday to a special Perch member. Celebrating your birds hatch day? Having an anniversary? This is the place to post it.
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Come visit The Perch Members "Other Pets Fourm" A place to chat about and give tips about your other animals. Come share stories, nutrition, care, toys and chat about your Dogs, Cats, Fish, Sugar Gliders, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, and any other pets you like!
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Bird Talk
Parrot Chatter (11 Viewing)
A place to chat about your birds, Announce that your getting a new bird, tell us about funny things your parrot says or does. If you have a species specific question go to the designated forum to get really specific information.
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A place to post if you need the help or advice from one of our experienced avian owners for a parrot related emergency right now! Example: My bird has a broken blood feather: What do I do? Best thing to do is call your Avian Vet, but if you need one of us ASAP, post here for a superfast response!
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A place to talk about and ask questions about what goes into rescuing birds or about rehoming a bird . An Open discussion on the Pros and Cons of taking in a rescue or re-homed bird. And a place to chat about your own personal struggle with possibly giving up your bird. No buying or selling birds is allowed here. Threads to raise funds to buy or sell a bird are prohibited without approval from a site Administrator.
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A place to post and share pictures or videos of our feathered friends cute and playful moments.
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Open discussion of Illnesses,Diseases,Avian Flu, injuries, feather destruction, picking,plucking and mutilating ,Breeding, Handfeeding tips and any other bird health questions you might have.***We are not Veterinarians!
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A place to ask questions about your Birds Nutrition, the type of food you might feed your species of bird, and to find and share recipes
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Ask questions about finding the right Cage for your bird, bar spacing and sizing. Playstand information, Toy ideas, questions, and sharing Toy making tips. Find out anything cage related right here!
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Open discussion for our birds that have disabilities such as Scissor beak, broken beaks, toe loss, and other things that make them different. Ask questions, and find out how to help make their lives more enriched. Also ask questions about maybe adding one of these special birds to your flock.
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A place to discuss and post information regarding endangered bird species & the evolution of birds.
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A forum for product reviews, hazardous product warnings, safer alternatives as well as eco-friendly/"green" products.
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A special place to remember those we have lost, Feathered, Furry or Finned.
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Lost & Found (2 Viewing)
- Messages for lost & found birds
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A place to get tips on how to help train your bird to do tricks, step up, how to limit bites, screaming, cage aggression, stick training or other challenging behaviors that we encounter with our pet birds.
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Have a question about shows, marts or seminars? Going to a bird show, seminar, or other event? Looking for a Bird Event near you? Are you a member of a bird club? Discuss your events here.
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Specific Bird Species
A place to share your passion for Bird Watching and Ecotourism, (also known as ecological tourism, local culture, wilderness adventures, volunteering,learning new ways to live on the planet; typically involving travel to destinations where flora, fauna, and cultural heritage are the primary attractions.)
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A place to chat about those lovely feathered wonders from the land Down Under! Rosellas,Polytelis, Barnardius, Psephotos, Neophemas and more!
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African Greys (11 Viewing)
Congo, TAG's, those spectacular Grey Parrots. A place to find out about these wonderful talking, sensitive, super intelligent parrots. Find out about their special needs: Calcium, Mental, and dietary needs. Find out about their emotional needs and dispell the Grey Myths!!! They dont all pluck! I swear!
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Amazons (2 Viewing)
Nothing more beautiful then the display of an amazon. Don't you wish all our feathered companion's body language was as easy to read as an amazon??
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Budgies (5 Viewing)
Little parrots, BIG personalities !
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Black Headed & White Bellied Caiques: Energetic, fun and the best hair surfers of the parrot world. Like Lays Potato Chips...you can't have just one!
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Cockatiels (4 Viewing)
Crest, cheek patches, whistles, and affection all create a cockatiel - which come in many mutations and are one of the most popular pet birds.
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Cockatoos (8 Viewing)
White powder balls with attiTOOude.
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Conures (1 Viewing)
Conures, the clowns of the parrot world, don't you just love them! This forum is for discussions of conures - Aratingas, Nandays, Pyrrhuras, just to name a few!
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Canaries & Finches (2 Viewing)
This forum is a place for discussing the care and feeding of all varieties of exotic finches and canaries. Members can discuss all aspects of care from cages and diets to breeding and health care.
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Eclectus (2 Viewing)
Beautiful and colorful, these medium sized parrots are generally known to be calm, observant, intelligent birds with very good to excellent talking abilities.
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A forum for discussing these unique and exciting parrots.
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Lovebirds (5 Viewing)
Why call them lovebirds you ask? well they were named lovebirds because if kept in pairs the lovebirds will constantly groom each other and sit as close together as possible when sleeping or resting.
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Macaws (2 Viewing)
This is a place to talk about or ask about those big beaked beautiful Blue Gold Macaws, Hyacinth's, Mini Macaws like the Hahns. Come on in and tell us about your wonderful large friends!! Big guys need love too!
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Other Parrots (1 Viewing)
Hawkhead, Vasa, Great Billed Parrot, etc.
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Parrotlets (2 Viewing)
The most popular Pacific/Celestial parrotlet. Second most commonly available is the Green-Rumped. Among others like the Blue-Wings, Mexican, Spectacled, and Yellow-Faced.
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Pionus Parrots - Quite Colorful, Quite Affectionate and Quite Quiet.
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Poicephalus Family (3 Viewing)
A place to discuss Senegal, Meyer's, Jardine's, Red-bellied, Brown-headed, and Cape Parrots. Intelligent, inquisitive, amusing and generally stubborn, some have considered these birds to be "the perfect parrots."
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Quakers (3 Viewing)
Did you know that quakers are the only bird in captivity that will nest without breeding?? Come on in and share the joys of the puffy cheeked hoarders of the parrot world.
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African, Indian, Alexandrine Moustache and all the other beautiful, elegant ringnecks. Officially parakeets, but we know they are Parrots!
Parakeets - Lineolated, Brotogeris, etc.)
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Softbills can be divided into several groups dietarily, frugivores, the fruit eaters, insectivores, the bug eaters, nectivores, the nectar feeders, and omnivores who eat a combination of things.
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These types of birds make up the family Ramphastidae, and are commonly known as "Ramphastids."
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