Yup.
My peachface, imaginitavely named “Peaches”, is quite the little beak fiend.
I have a scar on my thumb from where she exacted her toll of blood.
(She subsequently decided she likes me. I must be delicious.)
Lovebirds specifically and all hookbills are noise machines from sunup to sundown.
They also have an ocd need to chew.
On everything.
So they must be provided with toys to satisfy the destruction desire.
I crack jokes about how mankind would be doomed if lovebirds were merely cockatoo size.
But, I love my beak monster and would not trade her for anything.
Even if she did get loose and set the cat into terror panicked fleeing to his hiding place.
LOL Think I’ll just admire birds outside in the trees.
Couldn’t bear the noise and chewing up things.
Those birds are pretty and entertaining, though.
Love to see parrots talk. They’re so cute.
I think mockingbirds live like 2-3 years outside and up to 10 in captivity from what I’ve read.
Love to hear them ‘sing’. They really do imitate so many different birds- and sometimes even ‘things’.
Had a mocker build a nest outside my bedroom window last Spring..woke me up with her and/or her mate’s singing each morning.
Kinda glad when the little ones fledged and they all went away. :)
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