Do you have full flight birds

[DesertBird]

Reply to DesertBird
I am sorry to find you had a terrible accident.
Thanks for your emoji
I am so glad you are able to be on the forum.
Love back to you.

Bev

I think you might have me confused with someone else. What accident?

 

[Hobgoblin]

Both of ours came clipped. Hobs has since grown all his flight feathers and I’m so glad he has. He’s always been very adventurous and now when he gets himself in trouble he can fly his way out of them. He had a couple dramatic falls previously which hasn’t happened since. To be fair I was always far more traumatized by the tumbles than he ever was. Bogart will have to grow his back!

 

[Amma]

Kiwi is a flighted parakeet who loves to fly fast and as close zooming and buzzing around and past me. I would never want her not to be able to fly. I get so much joy in watching her and listening to her wings singing as she races around her territory.

 

[Shezzie]

Both of the galahs in my house are fully flighted Bobby is my sons and is 4 yrs old she just came back from a week living in the woods at the back of our house after escaping and flying 8 miles away and ziggy is 13 weeks and learning how to not crash land both do not know recall but training will start for both soon as my son is now allowing me near his bird lol .

 

[Patioquail]

One of my cockatiels are fully flighted the other is new and came clipped but he is learning and slowly getting there his wings are starting to grow back out. Once his wings have grown I do not plan to ever clip him.

 

[A.K]

Spunky and Ollie have never been clipped. I most likely never will. The joy I get from seeing them fly is too much.

 

[SelvaVerde]

My Timneh is clipped but she's still flying. She was fully flighted as were my other two (Blue Throated Macaw and Galah) right before we had to board them to go on vacation this past summer. I don't personally take chances with boarding and will clip my birds so they are retrievable in the event they get out of their cages, for example, while an employee is changing their food/water, etc. I feel safer that way. Prior to that and for the last several years I have allowed their feathers to grow in fully. But before that (when we lived in NY) they were always clipped. I have never, I have to say, seen a difference in their happiness or demeanor one way over the other. I think that (truthfully, I know) that being clipped made their lives better. They simply were able to be out more and had a better quality of life with us that they wouldn't have had if they were fully flighted. And, I was easily able to exercise them by getting them to flap their wings regularly. They always seemed to care more about where they were rather than how they got there. This is back then, of course, and lifestyles and logistics do matter and do change. We, as humans, tend to place a poetic meaning on flight (it's in our songs, etc.) but from all I have ever researched, it is simple locomotion (getting around) and if a bird can get around another way, nature is perfectly ok, as are birds, with losing the ability. Think of the Kakapo, or the Galapagos cormorant, both of which have lost the ability to fly recently in their evolutionary history. Nor does it seem that any of the adaptations we have been taught exist to facilitate flight, actually came about initially for that purpose (feathers, air sacs, gizzards, hollow bones, warm bloodedness, etc.). Not to debate the issue, but that is the current understanding of those adaptations.