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i have a lovebird, Seamus my family as had him about 4 years now and hes REALLY attached to us. last summer he got out of the house (flew onto my moms shoulder when she opened the door and she flung around so fast to try and get back into the house he flew off) he flew up into a big tree in back of our house, so i climbed up a ladder onto the roof and sang to him (he loves when i sing to him!) after a half hour of me singing to him and him singing back, he finally flew down to my shoulder! i kept singing to him as i climbed down the ladder and into the house! now i herd once a birds out of sight and in the trees, u can basically kiss his sorry ass good bye, but i got my guy back!!!! now if that isnt rare enough, the same effin thing happened last weekend!!!!!!! only this time i couldn't see or hear him!! it took an hour but i got him back for a second time!!!!!

i dont want to hear people telling me to clip his wings, cuz it wont happen my step dad thinks its cruelty to animals, even though i explained to him it was better for him to at least clip one wing he, wont here it!

pic is my buddy Seamus, the coolest, and greatest bird EVER!!!
>> Anonymous
Train him to fly to you on command. If he flew to you when you sang to him he'll probably be easy to flight-train. I wouldn't free-flight him outside once he's trained because he's small, but it makes it easier and safer to retrieve him if he gets outside again. Plus it's kind of a cool trick.

http://www.flightedbirds.org/fbwiki

And BTW if you do lose him don't give up looking. I once found a cockatiel that had gotten lost and flown about 20 miles from his house. The day I found him I found his owners on Craigslist. They had been looking for about three days. So never give up, you can get your bird back. And anyone who finds a pet bird should post it to Craigslist.
>> GENTLEMEN
I once had my birdy fly away too and we caught him in his cage by luring him in with grass. (He loves green things.) He didn't fly away too far either. :D
>> Anonymous
That must be horrible, loosing your bird! I'm glad you got him back.

Wing clipping is a really sensitive issue, true. Just a pointer though - clipping one wing is worse than clipping both! It makes them lopsided if they try to fly and screws up their balance.
>> Anonymous
>>330379

i agree, clipping one wing is retarded. my extended family has a couple of clipped ducks, they seem to be OK... but the unclipped one, MAAAAAN! so goddam majestic when it beats it's huge wings! i know it's just a duck, supposedly an unglamorous bird, but it looks like an eagle to me, especially when it's taking off. i regularly kick it to get it flying. it never flies away, btw, always there for breakfast and dinner. anyway, point is, i agree with the OP's step-dad, it's fucking stupid to clip a bird's wings
>> Anonymous
Same thing happened to my Pacific Parrotlet. She was always free flighted and once she flew up into a huge tree, but came back to me after a few minutes.
>> Anonymous
its happened to be with ever bid iv had. they manage to get out but ever one of them came back. 10 years ago one of ours flew off into the trees right before i had a baseball game. i looked and looked and didnt want to go to the game. when i got home 3 hours later he was sitting on the deck wanting back in, also a few years ago my macaw got ot and circled the house for 10 minutes. it was the first time he had flown so he didnt know what he was doing. he eventually flew into a tree nextdoor climbed down and walked home happy as can be.

as for trimming the wings. you can go a baby cut. which is done to young birds. so they still have half their flight but cant get height. usually involves only cutting a little of the flight feathers.
>> Anonymous
op here. since he is an adult i wouldn't want his wings clipped, i wouldn't know what to do if all of a sudden i couldn't walk! my only issue is, i love this little bird and id be a mess if something happened to him. i guess we should all just be a little more careful if we have a free flying bird out in the house
>> Anonymous
One time my peacock day gecko Jim escaped from my house. I thought my dwarf jackson's chameleon had eaten him. So I had no hope of ever seeing him again.Three months later I had moved an hour away to another city. My room mate who had moved with me mentioned that his mom's step son had caught a green lizard near where we used to live. It turned out to be my day gecko and I got him back. The gecko had survived three months out in the wild without so much as a scratch and then a week or two in an old aquarium filled with rainbow colored plants and gravel. I now have him in a nicely landscaped exo terra along with a female peacock day gecko.
>> Anonymous
There's another trick to attracting escaped pet birds back: put the cage outside (void of other birds, of course). It's a familiar, safe thing for the bird, one which they totally remember as being _home_. Given that an escaped pet bird is in a constant state of panic from the second they get outside, if they recognize the cage they'll make a beeline to it right away.
>> Anonymous
>>331173
Here's what you do, clip the feathers, not anything with blood and such. You clip JUST enough so that they have problems gaining altitude, making it difficult for them to fly off. Feathers are shed, grow back, repeat.
>> Anonymous
My lovebirds are mean. They try to ambush me whenever I fill their food and water containers with fresh food and water. They're psychotic little bastards.