I'm sorry I can't identify them. Are they doing damage?
Do you have a botanical garden or other public entity that does plant/pest identification?
Your state ag department or county extension service should be of help.
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I'm sorry I can't identify them. Are they doing damage?
Do you have a botanical garden or other public entity that does plant/pest identification?
Your state ag department or county extension service should be of help.
Not that I can see. I think they attach to tree. Pulled one off I think part of bark came with it. There were red ants hanging around them but I'm not sure if that was just coincidence.
I'm sorry I can't identify them. Are they doing damage?
Do you have a botanical garden or other public entity that does plant/pest identification?
Your state ag department or county extension service should be of help.
I haven't personally looked into it because I don't want to own a parrot but I have many friends in the rescue/rehab business. They tell me and just today, my coop fairy, a long time and current rescue person told me the shelters are overflowing with them.
Do you want some contacts? I can give you personal ones.
I have an umbrella cockatoo friend that desperately needs a home. He and I used to dance together.
I haven't personally looked into it because I don't want to own a parrot but I have many friends in the rescue/rehab business. They tell me and just today, my coop fairy, a long time and current rescue person told me the shelters are overflowing with them.
Do you want some contacts?
Terribly long.
That's why people shouldn't own them.
Some of the smaller ones only live about 30 years or so. But the big ones, like the scarlet and great green that I worked with will outlive you, your children and likely your grandchildren.
We had a breeding pair of scarlets that were 90 years old.
Terribly long.
That's why people shouldn't own them.
Some of the smaller ones only live about 30 years or so. But the big ones, like the scarlet and great green that I worked with will outlive you, your children and likely your grandchildren.
We had a breeding pair of scarlets that were 90 years old.
Oh wow 90 years and still breeding. If they bond with you as I've heard they can and then you can't take care of them I could see why it wouldn't be good on the older living ones. Even 30 years is quite the commitment. Our neighbors must have a parrot I've heard it over the 16 years I've lived here. They are moving I'm assuming they are taking it with them.
Cockatiels only live about 20 years, Conures about 30, Senegals about 50, Cockatoos and African Grays about 60, Amazons 70, Eclectus well over 80 and Macaws 100 or more.
They will bond with their owner as though they were the mate. They go quite crazy if that bond is broken for some reason. If you bond with one and then have to go away to college or into the military, they will hate you forever because a mate would never abandon them like that.
We had a lot of crazy birds that had been through that. Some were very human aggressive because they had been scorned in such a way. You don't want to have a macaw angry with you.
A large macaw like a scarlet has a bite strength around 700 lbs. per inch. Hyacinths' bites are much stronger. Perhaps 1000 or more. We had a Scarlet the stuck its beak through the cage of a Hyacinth and the Hyacinth bit the Scarlet's beak off. The Scarlet's mate had to feed it the rest of its life because it couldn't eat on its own.
My friends that do rescue have some horrific scars.
Check out this prison break bad boy.
Can you break 1/4 inch stainless steel with your mouth?
Phil. Warming up there yet?
