Whistling Wings

06/02/2023

Birds feeding their baby birds

(Video shown below is of a cockatiel pair from our aviary feeding their grown up babies)

When the baby birds are born, they are not able to eat food by themselves, so their mother, sometimes father, digests the food to make it safe for them. Then the parent puts the food into the mouths of its babies.

Baby birds always depend on their parents to eat food. In this case, a mother bird usually digests the food and then puts that food into the babies’ mouth. The babies always open their mouth wide and screech for the food when they are hungry.
However, the feeding method may be different, depending on the species. But every time the baby bird, which screeches louder, usually gets more food than others.

If the baby bird gapes its mouth strongly, then the parent can feed it easily, and the baby will be able to swallow much larger items.

Baby birds entirely depend on their mother, they actually eat whatever their mother usually feeds.

26/01/2023

Family Portrait ❤️

14/11/2022

Welcome to the new borns !! We have two beautiful Sun Conure chicks who were born in the Whistling Wings family last week.

Here are few tips to consider when you have a new born chick in your bird family -

Make sure the environment surrounding the nest box has moderate temperature as the chicks are quite sensitive to temperature and can die if the temperature surrounding their nest box is too high or too cold

Check the nest box at least once every day to see that the chick is safe from the parents and is being fed. At times bird parents are quite aggressive and they may end up hurting their own chicks. You can check if the bird is being fed by parents by checking the bird crop. In case the crop is not filled properly, you might need to hand feed the chick(s)

Don’t separate the chicks from their parents till they are at least 3-4 weeks old unless and until there are valid reasons such as chicks not being fed properly by parents or parents becoming too aggressive.

To be continued ..

05/11/2022

Our Beauty - TRex ❤️

31/10/2022

16/10/2022

Whistling Wings media coverage from last year about taking care of pets during this time of the year and protecting them from air and noise pollution. The message is still very much relevant.

Pet owners of Delhi have say on safe Diwali for their 'pur pals' By Dyuti Roy| Express News Service | Published: 04th November 2021 08:15 AM Sourav Nayyar with an Eclectus parrot. (Photo| EPS) Although the Delhi government has banned the sale and use of firecrackers, there have been reports of these...

18/09/2022

MonkParakeet1.mp4Monk Parakeet Breeding Tips

This post is first in series of posts where I will be sharing some tips about breeding of exotic birds within Whistling Wings aviary based on our personal experience. In this post, I will be sharing details about preparation for breeding of a very interesting bird called by name - 'Monk Parakeet' also known as 'Quaker Parrot'. It is a bright-green parrot with a greyish breast and greenish-yellow abdomen. Its average lifespan is 20–30 years. It originates from the temperate to subtropical areas of Argentina and the surrounding countries in South America. This bird has excellent talking capabilities and has a very friendly nature.

Tip #1 - Decent cage size and deep nesting box

Provide a cage as big as possible as Monk Parakeets need a good amount of space considering they are quick and of decent size. We have provided a custom cage of size 5 x 3 x 3 feet and a nesting box at least 1 foot depth for these birds (shown in the video below).

Tip #2 Coconut broom sticks of varying sizes as nesting material

We use wood shavings as nesting material for most of the birds in our aviary but we have found Monk parakeets to be very specific in this regards. They like to make elaborate nests within and outside their nest box and love to use sticks of varying sizes of coconut sticks broom that we generally use at home for wet cleaning (videos shown below)

Just cut the sticks of varying sizes (approximately 2 regular sized coconut brooms should be sufficient for a cage size mentioned above) and leave the sticks at the bottom of the cage opposite to the corner having the nest box. You would notice that if the birds are healthy and ready to breed, they will not take much time to start picking up the sticks on their own for decorating their nest.

To be continued ..

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This initiative is in no way associated with other organizations the author is part of.

01/09/2022

https://youtu.be/DTD7-ecyvNQ

17/08/2022

T Rex being naughty

04/08/2022

Let's fly

28/07/2022

T-REX & REXI💞

07/07/2022

Neem Treat

04/07/2022

Hide and seek

04/07/2022

Yummy yummy yummy 😋