My friend wants to know more about caring for birds and parrots. I know about parrots, but have never owned a finch or canary. Do they need toys? She's not getting a bird, but wants to learn more. TIA
Thanks.I give mine toys; stuff to preen, interact with. Otherwise they just sit around the cage. They are very scary and take a while to get used to something, but once they do, they interact with it.
Yeah I learned the hard way that anything with long threads is a no. I had a finch get tangled up in finch nesting material (can't remember specifically what it was called, but it was thread like material), it was really fun getting the bird untangled (not). Poor finch. Since then I've been supplying them with crinkle paper, which no one gets tangled up in, and they all love to build nests out of (the zebra especially is an obsessive nest builder).Kismet likes things that tinkle and natural stuff that hangs. Be careful not to put anything with long threads, that they can become entangled in, or snag a foot.