Reasons for being late to work/school 👆😅
#accessibility video description: Oakley is sitting on a branch demanding scritches. He stops to have an itch, then stretches his neck for scritches again. He then climbs onto my hand and places his head purposely and with no subtlety, demanding scritches. There are a few budgies in the background, behaving themselves and not demanding anything.
This morning’s chaos is brought to you in slow motion, with unedited sound effects.
#accessibility video description: a slow motion clip of many budgies and some weiros eating around and in the big blue bowl. There are a couple with attitude issues but for the most part it’s pretty harmonious. Midway through a kakariki crosses closely at the top of the screen, and a white weiro lands on the edge.
After a bit of an emotional weekend (no birds lost, don’t worry), these guys never fail to cheer me up. Hopefully they do the same for you.
Munching on sprouted seed mix, carrot, cabbage, kale, beetroot, and brocolli.
#accessibility video description: several different coloured budgies are in/on/around a hanging food bowl enjoying its contents.
This is how one of the weiros greets many newcomers to the flock...
#accessibility video description: on a hanging branch, with a number of other weiros slightly visible on other branches in the background, a grey weiro sits looking slightly overwhelmed, taking everything in. Next to them, another weiro is singing at him, enthusiastically but not quite in his face. The new weiro seems to enjoy this once they get used to it.
I’ll preface by saying ‘weiros’ is another name for ‘cockatiel’ (derived from Aboriginal language), largely used in Western Australia where Little Beaks is based.
What started out as a small sanctuary for budgies some years ago, quickly became a home for many needy weiros too (among multiple other species over time). Sadly, after budgies/parakeets, these guys are some of the most rehomed birds.
A little more expensive than budgies but still a relatively ‘cheap’ bird, weiros are often bought on impulse or as a first bird, with many people not realising their noise level (not as loud as bigger parrots, but flock calling can be relentless).
They can also do magnificent damage with their beaks - these guys often like to latch on and not let go!
The most common scenario we see is families that have bought a ‘tame’ ‘hand raised’ bird which, in reality, has just had their wings clipped and ends up being scared of people.
Weiros are amazing birds, intelligent, cheeky, full of character... but flock life and an understanding of their needs and species traits is essential for them.
#accessibility video description: on a swinging branch moving from end to end away from the camera, several budgies and weiros sit close together, some preening, others just chilling. Two budgies at the front preen each other. Near the end, a weiro near the back tries a few times to grab a thin twig as the branch swings near it, and finally succeeds, to enjoy chewing.
Spike wanted to say hello. After eating though. Priorities.
#accessibility video description: Spike the weiro with a bare chest is climbing on the humans shoulder, who is standing with back to a couple of hanging food bowls. While Spike is climbing around and checking out the camera with a slightly messy beak, lots of weiros and budgies in the background are flying around between branches and to the different food bowls. Some are just chilling. Spike shows his chest quite proudly at times, and others is just enthusiastically looking in the camera.
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