Yesterday I was at the groomer with a couple of my babies. They had a young Cape waiting for his new parents to pick him up. Such a sweetie. I didn’t get to handle him long because a fabulous green wing latched on to me! The green wing was being rehomed. Such special birds!🥰
Thanks so much for that video. It made me smile to see Macey and Quantum at the same time. They’re awesome! 😃 Quantum’s face when you pet his ear. Everything you said his totally true btw 👌🏿😇
Sibyl, one of our Capes, has been extremely distrustful of my son, Alister, the past few weeks. In Lorenza/ Land Shark style she lunged at him when I walked by with her on my shoulder. We decided to work on having her trust my son more so I put her on a T stand and had him stand a few feet away. He decided to sit on the floor because she was still pretty agitated. Molotov, our other Cape, wanted to be on the chair that was closer to my son to keep an eye on him. After about 20 min Alister started giving Molotov nuts. Sibyl heard Molotov eating nuts and wanted to go over. I just happened to swap them while my son was grabbing more nuts and he offered one to Sibyl without realizing it was her. She was totally fine and took several from him :) (I told him it was her when I realized he hadn't noticed. ) Hopefully we can maintain the trust from that experience!
Oh you are sneaky! We’ve had this happen too, have a parrot step up that usually bites but doesn’t… until we realize it’s the biter! Yes, I believe it is all conditioning until pairing trumps things. My Amazon choose me the minute she saw me and that was that. Lol
Just curious, why do you not have much content on Eclectus parrots?? I do have a female ekkie and Im a fan of your content on capes and greys. Its been helpful in the debate on choosing my next bird buddy
I love Ekkies, what's not to love? I did do 1 video, but I like to talk from experience. (I don't like reading contradictory information online from people who don't really know). I don't have an Ekkie, never had, because their diet is so different. :( But, if you have Ekkie questions, if I don't know, I'll ask my experts. Thanks for watching tho! Capes and Greys --- oh! Love them!
Capes sound awesome. They have cute cheeky faces. Interesting what you say about them being a bit more chill because they know they have a good defense in their big beak. I like the painting of the parrot in a cape 😄 The morning routine where they fly downstairs sounds sweet. I'm curious about bird gardens of naples that you speak highly of, have you ever done a video tour of the rescue? I had a look through your videos and couldn't see one. It would be awesome to see if it was ever possible.
Thank you so much for answering, could you tell me what brands you feed your Cape parrots? I would love to try and replicate the diet you feed them, they look so healthy. 😊
Great video! I found it really informative, because I've never had a pet cape parrot; but I've watched them in the wild when I lived in Africa. A comment I'd make about the veg-feeding is that cape parrots, like most of the commonly kept Australian parrots, are from comparable temperate to semi-temperate climates and environments and so are naturally very seasonal eaters. I've found that with my birds, they'll reject certain foods outright at certain times of the year, then will suddenly love them with a change of season. I'm not an advocate of offering the same daily mixed-grated veg to temperate-region parrots for that reason..... though for tropical birds, there seems to be less season-based discrimination in my experience. I'd always suggest to parrot owners of birds from these regions to keep trying different foods throughout the year. Just because they didn't like them a month ago, doesn't mean they won't like them tomorrow. My cockatoo won't eat pellets in the Winter, but instead eats almost exclusively green, seeding grasses, roots, tubers and bulbs. Now it's high Summer, pellets, dry & sprouted seed, summer sedges and thistle flowers are back on the menu. I just chased a flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos out of my apple orchard. I don't mind them eating the unripe gravensteins and granny-smiths, but I only have one snow-apple tree and that's the one they're trying to demolish.
Yes, changing offerings is important. Of course, it’s hard to compete with nature where they greatly vary their diet. Chasing Sulfur-crested away?!? I would never! But, I don’t have an apple orchard to protect-lol
Without wanting to seem contrary or nit-picky (I do love this channel), I would like to address the commonly-held misconception (myth) that only two kinds of parrot can crack whole, ripe walnuts; cape parrots and macaws. All five groups of Australian black cockatoos (including the various subspecies of each group) can easily break into ripe walnuts. So can palm cockatoos. I know they're not commonly kept in the US, but in Australia, whole walnuts are a favourite treat. Their natural diets all include much harder nuts than walnuts (gumnuts, she-oak cones, pine-cones and macadamias; the hardest of all nuts to crack) and watching them eat a walnut is like watching a rabbit chew through thin cardboard. The white and pink cockatoos (sulphur-crested, major mitchell etc) regularly raid walnut plantations _just before the walnuts fully ripen_ and cause massive losses to growers..... however they can damage their beaks on fully-ripe walnuts, so feeding them whole, ripe walnuts isn't recommended. But if you have a walnut tree, giving them whole, nearly-ripe walnuts is a real treat and keeps them busy for hours.
Good to know! So now I know which tropical and neotropical and which Australian Cockatoos! Yeah, rare species here that I haven’t had the pleasure of knowing
@@ParrotBliss Unfortunately, there's nowhere near as much Australian content online about birds as there is from the Northern Hemisphere, so despite having 56 parrot species with many more subspecies, a lot of them go unnoticed by people overseas, unless they're the really well-known ones kept as pets. Have you seen this old Conan clip with a palm cockatoo? ua-cam.com/video/eMBFhaxUIew/v-deo.html
@@anserbauer309 watching that was so much fun! Who has the bigger crest? Lol - LMAO! That was awesome! The black Palm Cockatoos are phenomenal! Yes, I agree, we just don’t have a lot of information about them here. That’s why I love hearing your stories! I wish you had pictures to go with them!
Cape parrots are the best smartest person that I’ve ever had unbelievable
You always say that!
Yesterday I was at the groomer with a couple of my babies. They had a young Cape waiting for his new parents to pick him up. Such a sweetie. I didn’t get to handle him long because a fabulous green wing latched on to me! The green wing was being rehomed. Such special birds!🥰
Oh- how fun! It’s like Disneyland for Kalyn’s!
I certainly appreciate all of your amazing reviews. Little Macie is sooo adorable! Thank you.
Thank you for the thank you!
Thanks so much for that video. It made me smile to see Macey and Quantum at the same time. They’re awesome! 😃 Quantum’s face when you pet his ear. Everything you said his totally true btw 👌🏿😇
They don’t send time together- so it isn’t easy to get them together- I love hearing that someone is bringing a Cape home. 😀
Sibyl, one of our Capes, has been extremely distrustful of my son, Alister, the past few weeks. In Lorenza/ Land Shark style she lunged at him when I walked by with her on my shoulder.
We decided to work on having her trust my son more so I put her on a T stand and had him stand a few feet away. He decided to sit on the floor because she was still pretty agitated.
Molotov, our other Cape, wanted to be on the chair that was closer to my son to keep an eye on him. After about 20 min Alister started giving Molotov nuts. Sibyl heard Molotov eating nuts and wanted to go over. I just happened to swap them while my son was grabbing more nuts and he offered one to Sibyl without realizing it was her. She was totally fine and took several from him :) (I told him it was her when I realized he hadn't noticed. ) Hopefully we can maintain the trust from that experience!
Oh you are sneaky! We’ve had this happen too, have a parrot step up that usually bites but doesn’t… until we realize it’s the biter!
Yes, I believe it is all conditioning until pairing trumps things. My Amazon choose me the minute she saw me and that was that. Lol
@@ParrotBliss ha ha - I was accidentally sneaky :P I think when a person acts afraid of a parrot it puts the parrot on edge.
@@ks4893-m8v completely agree!
Just curious, why do you not have much content on Eclectus parrots?? I do have a female ekkie and Im a fan of your content on capes and greys. Its been helpful in the debate on choosing my next bird buddy
I love Ekkies, what's not to love? I did do 1 video, but I like to talk from experience. (I don't like reading contradictory information online from people who don't really know).
I don't have an Ekkie, never had, because their diet is so different. :( But, if you have Ekkie questions, if I don't know, I'll ask my experts.
Thanks for watching tho! Capes and Greys --- oh! Love them!
Capes sound awesome. They have cute cheeky faces. Interesting what you say about them being a bit more chill because they know they have a good defense in their big beak.
I like the painting of the parrot in a cape 😄
The morning routine where they fly downstairs sounds sweet.
I'm curious about bird gardens of naples that you speak highly of, have you ever done a video tour of the rescue? I had a look through your videos and couldn't see one. It would be awesome to see if it was ever possible.
ua-cam.com/video/CKiNs0ir8BQ/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/dYK8uM_81Ow/v-deo.html
Oh awesome thankyou!
Thank you so much for answering, could you tell me what brands you feed your Cape parrots? I would love to try and replicate the diet you feed them, they look so healthy. 😊
Do you have experience with blue headed macaws? Im between a blue headed macaw and a cape 🤔
I don’t- looked into them, almost got one. They seem awesome-
Great video! I found it really informative, because I've never had a pet cape parrot; but I've watched them in the wild when I lived in Africa.
A comment I'd make about the veg-feeding is that cape parrots, like most of the commonly kept Australian parrots, are from comparable temperate to semi-temperate climates and environments and so are naturally very seasonal eaters. I've found that with my birds, they'll reject certain foods outright at certain times of the year, then will suddenly love them with a change of season. I'm not an advocate of offering the same daily mixed-grated veg to temperate-region parrots for that reason..... though for tropical birds, there seems to be less season-based discrimination in my experience.
I'd always suggest to parrot owners of birds from these regions to keep trying different foods throughout the year. Just because they didn't like them a month ago, doesn't mean they won't like them tomorrow. My cockatoo won't eat pellets in the Winter, but instead eats almost exclusively green, seeding grasses, roots, tubers and bulbs. Now it's high Summer, pellets, dry & sprouted seed, summer sedges and thistle flowers are back on the menu. I just chased a flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos out of my apple orchard. I don't mind them eating the unripe gravensteins and granny-smiths, but I only have one snow-apple tree and that's the one they're trying to demolish.
Yes, changing offerings is important. Of course, it’s hard to compete with nature where they greatly vary their diet.
Chasing Sulfur-crested away?!? I would never! But, I don’t have an apple orchard to protect-lol
Without wanting to seem contrary or nit-picky (I do love this channel), I would like to address the commonly-held misconception (myth) that only two kinds of parrot can crack whole, ripe walnuts; cape parrots and macaws. All five groups of Australian black cockatoos (including the various subspecies of each group) can easily break into ripe walnuts. So can palm cockatoos. I know they're not commonly kept in the US, but in Australia, whole walnuts are a favourite treat.
Their natural diets all include much harder nuts than walnuts (gumnuts, she-oak cones, pine-cones and macadamias; the hardest of all nuts to crack) and watching them eat a walnut is like watching a rabbit chew through thin cardboard. The white and pink cockatoos (sulphur-crested, major mitchell etc) regularly raid walnut plantations _just before the walnuts fully ripen_ and cause massive losses to growers..... however they can damage their beaks on fully-ripe walnuts, so feeding them whole, ripe walnuts isn't recommended. But if you have a walnut tree, giving them whole, nearly-ripe walnuts is a real treat and keeps them busy for hours.
Good to know! So now I know which tropical and neotropical and which Australian Cockatoos! Yeah, rare species here that I haven’t had the pleasure of knowing
@@ParrotBliss Unfortunately, there's nowhere near as much Australian content online about birds as there is from the Northern Hemisphere, so despite having 56 parrot species with many more subspecies, a lot of them go unnoticed by people overseas, unless they're the really well-known ones kept as pets. Have you seen this old Conan clip with a palm cockatoo? ua-cam.com/video/eMBFhaxUIew/v-deo.html
@@anserbauer309 watching that was so much fun! Who has the bigger crest? Lol - LMAO! That was awesome! The black Palm Cockatoos are phenomenal! Yes, I agree, we just don’t have a lot of information about them here. That’s why I love hearing your stories! I wish you had pictures to go with them!
In one of my old bird books they show a parrot from somewhere in Africa called a Vasa. Have you had any experience with one of these?
I’ve seen them, but no, never had the pleasure
Hi Kalen. How long do cape parrots live?
Depends, of course. It is said they can live 30 to 40. My fav!