Posted on 12/11/2023 2:22:28 PM PST by allen592
Not our family bird. She speaks and knows the meaning of words. Very smart little creature. African Grey parrot.
“Start a business selling homing pigeons to people who set them free.”
Not sale, rental. Just like beer.
I used to sell homers to the local hmong bird market and hmong would buy a dozen for a funeral feast and always let one go. It would come back with little trinkets and decorations on it. And back to the market next week.
And if they were taken young and raised in cages, they won’t even know how to compete at all.
That was mean. I've owned birds, they stink, make a complete mess with their food, make sudden screeching sounds, poop every time you let them out of their cage and will bite the hell out of you for no reason other than for fun.
Flying rats, they remind me of Antifa people.
You are to be commended for raising such children. Good for them.
I had a rescued homer for about 10 years. It was found down, near my workplace.
I did a lot of research trying to find an owner - the bird had a band and I was able to trace it to the seller and to the person who bought it. Numerous calls to the asshole who had purchased it, and I received no response; but of course the answering machine always said, ‘God Bless!’
During the process I learned from local pigeon fanciers that there are unscrupulous people who buy homing pigeons cheap from breeders, don’t bother to train them, and then charge big prices to sell ‘release’ to people for weddings and funerals.
These people don’t care what happens to the birds later. Homers are raised in captivity, the buyer never trains them to home, and the birds can’t survive.
(’God Bless’ my ass!)
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Decades ago my Grandmom's parakeet "Peepers" escaped to the outside.
This was during the winter.
Two days later the dumb bird was found on the front walkway, frozen dead.
It was probably flying around the outside of the house looking for a way back in -
where it would not be in dander of freezing to death.
Rest in peace Mr. Peepers.
Most likely not, unless they find places with bird feeders.
Your post shows how DUMB you are about birds.
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Fumble fingers I am...
And now we know the genesis of...The Schieffelin Plan. 😏😉
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A great movie!
Among the very smartest and long-lived of birds, as I’m sure you know. Congratulations !
“Birds are dumb”
We had a chicken who was a pet. She could understand a number of commands, she loved to watch TV, she’d come sit with you if you called her, she understood if we put a treat in a can that the treat was in the can and she’d get it out, she liked to go for rides on the ATV and would sit on it and crow until you took her for a ride, and she was paper trained.
That made her more intelligent than thousands of people in San Francisco.
I’ve worked with and been acquainted with many animals through my life.
Of all species I’ve known, birds are the most deadly serious about their bird lives, especially when it comes to care for their babies.
Many human parents could learn a lot from them.
Very true.
Sweet of him to feed all the hungry hawks like that. :)
You haven’t seen a bird hit a window and shock in people’s faces until you see a pair of Canada geese hit a 6 story atrium window. I’m not sure if it’s the thunderous bang of the geese slamming into the glass or them flopping around on the patio below that brings the most shock. But regardless you’ll remember both for life.
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