These are my buddies. Helios, our pied dude was our first tiel. I saw him and had to have him. He’s so lively and funny and mimicked our phone ringtone like a pro within weeks.
Then came Dahlia, formerly Gus. I only took “Gus” because my friend who texted me was like hey would you like a another bird? My pregnant daughter can’t keep hers? I asked the gender and they said male. I was like dude I’ll be right over. I had two female green cheeks specifically to avoid hanky panky.
Well.
after a few months I realized Gus wasn’t a good example of male cockatiel behavior. It didn’t matter because she loathed Helios and wasn’t interested.
Then my daughter fell in love with a local breeders white faces. We brought Starlight home.
And Dahlia fell for him. It’s awkward lmao. But we love them all so much.