Button says thank you, Brooke for this awesome foraging toy you made! 🥰
Adding the links and extras on the outside is such a wonderful idea! You can tell Button thinks so too 😊
Citron-crested cockatoo Pogo checking out a new foraging toy made by one of our awesome volunteers! Thank you, Brooke for providing our birds with such wonderful and creative forms of enrichment 🙏
Listen closely. You can hear umbrella cockatoo Sugar tossing and chasing his toy! Yet another form of enrichment 😊
Providing enrichment that encourages natural behaviors is extremely important for a captive parrots well being.
The recipe called for Sugar with a little bit of spinach . . . or was that spinach with a little bit of sugar? 🤔😊🥗
#enrichment is only limited by your imagination and your parrot's opinion of course! 🦜
How do you prepare your collard greens? Guildy recommends tenderizing for about 30 secs before consuming 😉😋
It's important to provide your parrots with fresh greens and a variety of nutritious produce every day 🥬🥕🥒🥦🫐
#goffincockatoo #vegetables #healthyfood #parrotrescue #parrots #adoptdontshop
Just a couple of senior cockatiel boys enjoying a shower! 🚿💦 25 year old Buddy (top) and 27 year old, special needs Hannah 🧡🩶💛
Providing your birds with frequent showers and baths will:
🦜 help keep their feathers looking great!
🦜 reduce the amount of dust and dander in their and your environment!
🦜 help maintain or improve their mental and physical health 🙂🦜
Deep tissue? Shiatsu? "Massages by Dallas" given to best friends only 🥰
#cockatoo #massage #bestfriends #nonprofit #parrotrescue #adoptdontshop
#littlecorella Truman taking his daily meds 🧡
Truman suffers from severe anxiety as the result of being confined to a tiny cage for the first 8 years of his life. He was fed a horrible diet of wild bird seed and peanuts. He had only one plastic perch and no toys to play with 😓
This special little cockatoo has come a long way here at Icarus, even though his brain development was stunted by the lack of appropriate stimuli during his critical developmental years.
#bareeyedcockatoo #cockatoo #cockatoosanctuary #parrotrescue #parrots #nonprofit #adoptdontshop #adoptdontbuy #parrotsshouldnotbepets
Beverly!! Thank you so much for sending our birds this gift package of treats!! ❤️ The milk thistle seeds are clearly Blizzard's favorite! Did you see how he touched the bag 3 times? And indeed they really are his faves!! 😋
You can order this special package for the birds at The Icarus Foundation's Chesapeake Parrot Sanctuary by clicking the link in the comments below....
There's always someone wanting a shower on rainy days 🌧 This is Goffin's cockatoo, Kakadoo!
Just look at Kakadoo's gorgeous wings!! Watch him flap his wings in slo-mo right around the 40 sec mark. He can fly really well now too!! 🪽
Kak's previous guardians clipped his wings. We don't promote wing clipping unless it's for medical reasons. After all, birds are uniquely designed for flight! 🕊🦜
Just love these umbrella boys! ❤️ That's Dallas in front with his left wing around Pippin. He was gently preening Pippin's feathers until he realized they were being watched 👀
27 year old Hannah cockatiel whistling a tune to remind you that it's really important to include healthy fresh food as part of your avian companion's daily diet... yes, even the littlest ones like tiels and budgies. 🥦🌱🫛
Some of his faves include a sprouted mix, cooked brown rice and kamut mixed with ground flaxseed and milk thistle seed, raw broccoli buds and greens like dandelion, bok choy and spinach... Yummy!! 😋
It doesn't matter to Murphy that the top of the box from Avian Antics Parrot Boutique is wide open! He obviously prefers more of a challenge. Nice job, Murph! You should be very proud of yourself! 👏
