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I'm currently caring for an ARN (Sylphie) with an unknown history. First thread about her can be found here -> Pictures - Foster Bird | Avian Avenue Parrot Forum
It seems that her leg band might be an import band after '92? Prior to '92, import bands were round steel with 3 letters and 3-4 numbers. She has a flat purple leg band with 3 letters and 5 numbers, which I have been informed is the new method of ID'ing imports. (flat open band with 3 letters and 5 numbers) If this is true, this would indicate that she was imported through California. Judging by her behavior, she doesn't appear to have been a pet before, and seems drawn to windows. (tries to fly through them) It makes me wonder about her past.
Her band has been removed now.
I got her eating Nutriberries and pellets easily enough, however she had shown no interest in fresh/cooked food. I usually feed mash and dry foods separately so I can better judge how much is getting eaten vs how much is being wasted or ignored. Well, she hasn't really taken any interest in the mash, so today I crumbled up a couple of Nutriberries into the mash, mixed around and put back into the cage. It pretty much went like this.
-Adds mash to cage-
Looks at dish, studies it, decides nothing is good inside, doesn't move from perch
-Adds two crumbled Nutriberries to dish, mix around, back into cage-
Studies dish again. Still not interesting enough to come down.
-Adds one entire Nutriberry-
Comes down, grabs Nutriberry and proceeds to eat it.
After finishing berry, investigate dish again. Grabs something moist.
OMG! What is that? -flings head-
Goes back, grabs a pomegranate seed and proceeds to eat it.
Hmmm... ok. That's not too bad. -goes through dish for other foods and proceeds to eat a few more things-
Well, that was easy!
Here's hoping Sylphie continues to eat mash! Right now, she's trying to chew her way out of the cage... and once out, all she tries to do is get through the window.
She did startle me the other night. My birds are typically pretty quiet once it's dark as long as they aren't disturbed. Well, Sylphie decided to vocalize a little (she's pretty quiet!) after dark and I froze, thinking there was a bird outside the window!
Her tail and flight feathers are quite the mess though. She's molted a few of them out already. Stress bars galore. Broken and/or chewed feathers, too...
The feather with the most stress bars even has some blood on the end of it.... so really hoping her new feathers grow in strong and healthy! And she doesn't destroy them!
It seems that her leg band might be an import band after '92? Prior to '92, import bands were round steel with 3 letters and 3-4 numbers. She has a flat purple leg band with 3 letters and 5 numbers, which I have been informed is the new method of ID'ing imports. (flat open band with 3 letters and 5 numbers) If this is true, this would indicate that she was imported through California. Judging by her behavior, she doesn't appear to have been a pet before, and seems drawn to windows. (tries to fly through them) It makes me wonder about her past.
Her band has been removed now.
I got her eating Nutriberries and pellets easily enough, however she had shown no interest in fresh/cooked food. I usually feed mash and dry foods separately so I can better judge how much is getting eaten vs how much is being wasted or ignored. Well, she hasn't really taken any interest in the mash, so today I crumbled up a couple of Nutriberries into the mash, mixed around and put back into the cage. It pretty much went like this.
-Adds mash to cage-
Looks at dish, studies it, decides nothing is good inside, doesn't move from perch
-Adds two crumbled Nutriberries to dish, mix around, back into cage-
Studies dish again. Still not interesting enough to come down.
-Adds one entire Nutriberry-
Comes down, grabs Nutriberry and proceeds to eat it.
After finishing berry, investigate dish again. Grabs something moist.
OMG! What is that? -flings head-
Goes back, grabs a pomegranate seed and proceeds to eat it.
Hmmm... ok. That's not too bad. -goes through dish for other foods and proceeds to eat a few more things-
Well, that was easy!
Here's hoping Sylphie continues to eat mash! Right now, she's trying to chew her way out of the cage... and once out, all she tries to do is get through the window.
She did startle me the other night. My birds are typically pretty quiet once it's dark as long as they aren't disturbed. Well, Sylphie decided to vocalize a little (she's pretty quiet!) after dark and I froze, thinking there was a bird outside the window!
Her tail and flight feathers are quite the mess though. She's molted a few of them out already. Stress bars galore. Broken and/or chewed feathers, too...
The feather with the most stress bars even has some blood on the end of it.... so really hoping her new feathers grow in strong and healthy! And she doesn't destroy them!