PlaxMacaws (10-31-2017)
Casper was giving alarm calls today whilst looking out of the window in my office at the top of the house. He had spotted a cat hunting in the long grass in the field over the road and was presumably trying to warn the other birds.
"A busy beak is a happy beak" - David Strom
Dragonlady2 (10-31-2017), Lady (11-02-2017), PlaxMacaws (10-31-2017)
Geez, what a frightening photo. I'm not ready to read the article but I will muster up the nerve another day. Having to watch any animal big or small capture and eat another animal for survival is difficult and I will not watch either although we all know it is the way of the world. I think if I lived on a farm and raised animals I would be a vegetarian.
Now that I'm thinking about it.... if I had to do any of the "dirty work" I couldn't.
Last edited by Lady; 11-02-2017 at 12:16 AM.
Dragonlady2 (11-02-2017), plax (11-04-2017)
Well the article didn't have much to say about how Nikki the bird is doing except the following morning she wasn't chirping as usual. Hopefully they won't have to deal with such an encounter any time soon. I also hope they decide to make a safe place for their bird by maybe hanging the cage out of harms way.
Casper's 2nd best friend (11-05-2017), Dragonlady2 (11-05-2017), plax (11-04-2017)
In Australia cockatoos chew billion-dollar broadband cables
I have edited the headline for grammatical correctness but can't do anything about the usual rubbish exaggeration that they consider attention grabbing.
(I think they employ children to look after the news website, they certainly do not use proof checkers)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-41857761
Why didn't they armour the cables from new, Cockatoos have been around a lot longer than the internet chomping on anything that is likely to cause trouble?
Last edited by Casper's 2nd best friend; 11-05-2017 at 11:04 PM.
"A busy beak is a happy beak" - David Strom
Dragonlady2 (11-06-2017)
Wonder why they don't go underground? Our fiber optics here are underground.
Casper's 2nd best friend (11-06-2017)
So are ours but installation costs are higher so Australia obviously took the cheapskate option
"A busy beak is a happy beak" - David Strom
Dragonlady2 (11-06-2017)
More bird smugglers caught in Indonesia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-42021915
"A busy beak is a happy beak" - David Strom
I had no idea that there were so few white cockatoos left...I had the impression there were lots of them left in the wild.
It's kind of disheartening to think of the amount of smuggling of wild birds still going on.
Casper's 2nd best friend (11-19-2017), Lady (11-19-2017)