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Setting-Up Your Pet Bird Supply
If you are not the dog or cat type of pet owner, you may want to have a pet bird instead. There are however, so many different types of bird species and your pet bird supply should be tailor suited to the type of bird you are caring for. Whatever your type of bird is however, it is imperative that even before you bring your bird home, your pet bird supply should have been properly organized already. So what are your bird’s basic needs?
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Cheep, Cheep – Birds Can Be Pets too!
If you are interested in a pet bird, there are many things you need to consider before you settle on a species. Such things as how much time you can devote to a bird and how much noise you can tolerate will help you make a good decision and find a bird that will be a good match for you. It is essential to find a bird that matches your personality, lifestyle and household.
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The Bird flu, or avian influenza, is an infection caused by a strain of type A orthomyxovirus known as H5N1. This virus is found naturally in wild birds but does not typically cause illness. The H5N1 strain however is extremely contagious and can cause life-threatening illness in domesticated birds.
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Most people purchase parrots and other exotic birds in hope that they will be able to sing, dance and perform some tricks. Cockatiels are capable of doing the same tricks that larger parrots are known to do. It will take some patience and perseverance in order for your cockatiel to learn any type of trick.
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Since cockatiels cannot tell us what is wrong with their health, owners need to understand the warning signs of a sick bird. It could be rather difficult to spot symptoms because often times they do not show until the problem as reached a serious level. Learning to see the signs as soon as they appear will give you the opportunity to care for your cockatiel as quickly as possible.
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ND birds show no dangerous flu - Jamestown Sun
DICKINSON, N.D. State officials say tests of birds in the state continue to show no signs of a dangerous strain of avian flu. Game and Fish Department bird management supervisor Mike Johnson says the testing is a continent-wide effort. Johnson says a
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Olympics: Phillips Idowu falls short in triple jump - Guardian Unlimited
It was an evening of nearly but not quite for Britain at the Bird's Nest stadium. Phillips Idowu, favourite for gold in the triple jump, finished with silver. He was inched out by the 2007 world champion, Portugal's Nelson Evora. Idowu twice took the
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Rants, raves and random thoughts 082108 - Rushville Republican
Greetings, one and all, and welcome! Thanks much for joining me. Thereâs plenty of mail to ponder so Iâll try to be brief with my own thoughts. I do, however, have a couple of things Iâd like to share. n The world lost a good man earlier this
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Party-goers, nature-lovers at odds over Scituateâs secluded Spit - Patriot Ledger
On a quiet Tuesday evening at The Spit, the beaches are deserted and a lone boat bobs at the shoreline. But weekends are different for Scituateâs famously secluded peninsula, and Tony Jones clutches evidence of that in both hands: glass bottles
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Birds 'off the pace' with warming - BBC Science/Nature
In the Royal Society journal Proceedings B, researchers say that the birds are lagging some 182km behind the increases in temperature. This lag may be of particular concern to rare birds or species that have very specific food requirements. "The
