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Thanks for that post. Love that photos of you and your Mynah bird. Where do you live? I am in Thailand.
I am glad I did not clip my birds wings in the end.
I would always be against wing clipping really myself. It was just the kind of unique living arrangement he is in (not being in the house). I know if he accidently flew out of the cage he would fly away in panic, as he gets spooked by new things.
I have an aviary of budgies, and sometimes one will get out. But they never fly away for long. They can see and hear the other budgies. Some have been out for over a week having a good time with the sparrows, but won't let me catch them!!! In the end they will go into the small 'trap' cage to get some treats and that's how I catch them.
I even have a red whiskered bulbul bird. He was hand raised by me when ants destroyed his nest on our patio He has got out several times too.. and 2 times I tried to release him (as I felt sorry for him not having a mate and friends of his own kind). All of these times he always came back and landed on my head or tried to get back in his cage. He lacks the skills to find his own wild food I think and thinks he is a human not a bird. Sadly his nestmate died because I tried to see if the adults would come back and feed them after I got rid of the ants. But they did not come back and it got chilled in the night, and the survivor was nearly dead, so I decided to rescue the remained chick.
I think most birds will always come back so long as they know their outside area for a while. Problems are when a house bird gets outside for the first time and panics and has never see the outdoors before.. so flies off, and has no idea where its indoor home and cage are.
I tried to put my Mynah bird into the aviary with my insect eating birds, but he was a bully and tried to eat the other birds!!!! I have Gouldian finches, Chinese painted quails, diamond doves and captive bred ringed pair of white rumped shama birds.
I don't know if he was from the wild (I hope not). When I got him he was an unwanted pet of a acquaintance. They found him too noisy, as he had learnt to mimic a screaming parrot and did this noise most of the time!!! too noisy in the house for sure, but in the garden it's not a problem, and I am sure he likes it outside better, in the sun, breeze, seeing other mynah birds on his cage, and activity during the daytime.
I wish I had a more fun bond with him, although he is very tame, likes to 'eat' my fingers, and loves being tickled on his head (also feeds from the hand is super tame), he just will not come out of his cage now into the other one. He wants to stay in his big garden cage. I think he got scared by something when he was in the smaller cage on the patio. I am working on getting him to go into the cage again, but its been over 2 weeks with is attacked to his big cage, and I keep putting he favourite treats and fruit in it, he just refused to go into it again.
I am glad I did not clip my birds wings in the end.
I would always be against wing clipping really myself. It was just the kind of unique living arrangement he is in (not being in the house). I know if he accidently flew out of the cage he would fly away in panic, as he gets spooked by new things.
I have an aviary of budgies, and sometimes one will get out. But they never fly away for long. They can see and hear the other budgies. Some have been out for over a week having a good time with the sparrows, but won't let me catch them!!! In the end they will go into the small 'trap' cage to get some treats and that's how I catch them.
I even have a red whiskered bulbul bird. He was hand raised by me when ants destroyed his nest on our patio He has got out several times too.. and 2 times I tried to release him (as I felt sorry for him not having a mate and friends of his own kind). All of these times he always came back and landed on my head or tried to get back in his cage. He lacks the skills to find his own wild food I think and thinks he is a human not a bird. Sadly his nestmate died because I tried to see if the adults would come back and feed them after I got rid of the ants. But they did not come back and it got chilled in the night, and the survivor was nearly dead, so I decided to rescue the remained chick.
I think most birds will always come back so long as they know their outside area for a while. Problems are when a house bird gets outside for the first time and panics and has never see the outdoors before.. so flies off, and has no idea where its indoor home and cage are.
I tried to put my Mynah bird into the aviary with my insect eating birds, but he was a bully and tried to eat the other birds!!!! I have Gouldian finches, Chinese painted quails, diamond doves and captive bred ringed pair of white rumped shama birds.
I don't know if he was from the wild (I hope not). When I got him he was an unwanted pet of a acquaintance. They found him too noisy, as he had learnt to mimic a screaming parrot and did this noise most of the time!!! too noisy in the house for sure, but in the garden it's not a problem, and I am sure he likes it outside better, in the sun, breeze, seeing other mynah birds on his cage, and activity during the daytime.
I wish I had a more fun bond with him, although he is very tame, likes to 'eat' my fingers, and loves being tickled on his head (also feeds from the hand is super tame), he just will not come out of his cage now into the other one. He wants to stay in his big garden cage. I think he got scared by something when he was in the smaller cage on the patio. I am working on getting him to go into the cage again, but its been over 2 weeks with is attacked to his big cage, and I keep putting he favourite treats and fruit in it, he just refused to go into it again.
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