It's quite interesting to think you know so much about someone or something, but when asked to give an accurate depiction of that one thing, there are no words you can piece together to utterly describe it. That was my first notion at the start of this observation. And weeks of observations have yet to alter that.
However, it has caused me to notice some things about Little Bird that I wouldn't have particularly noticed without the aid of this project. The first thing is that I feel like he has a dominant hand which in his case happens to be the right claw. Of course he uses his left claw but I've noticed that he uses his right more often. That's something I should most definitely look into. I can tell that Little Bird absolutely HATES loud noises. Whenever I raise my voice or something loud occurs, he yells like there's no tomorrow and flaps his wings. I can only assume that he doesn't particularly like anything noisy because of that. Big Bird and Little Bird had that in common. Now let me make a note about his wings. Little Bird loves to come out of his cage and when he does a stretching like movement occurs once he has successfully reaches the top. It resembles a human stretching their arms when they first wake up. He brings them up nice and slow but in a somewhat choppy motion. He also has these instances where he rotates his head back and "cleans" his feathers. I used the quotations because I'm not really sure what he would be doing if it wasn't a nice little cleaning. Anyways, after turning his head back he picks a feather and runs through it with his beak. Resembling a bored teenage girl combing her fingers through her hair. So possibly he is just combing his feathers?
I wouldn't say I'm the healthiest person in the world, but I sure as heck enjoy my fruits and veggies. When I have the chance to share some of that with Little Bird I almost always do. And the times I forget he reminds me (I'll get into that a little later). One thing he cannot get enough of is kale. As soon as I give him the slightest taste, his eyes light up. I do feed Little Bird portions of whatever else I eat. Well anything that doesn't have the potential to end his life. Something that he could do is talk. Nothing fancy. But as I said in my previous post, Little Bird had lived with my grandmother for a chunk of his life and any thing he picked up was from her. I've tried to teach him new things but nothing has broken through(or so I believe). Anyways, whenever I have food and forget to share Little Bird Says "hiiiii." Sometimes it's other things but mainly just that. He has been doing that more than usual or maybe I just haven't given much thought to it. I will end here mainly due to wanting to do some more observations before I can really get a feel for what Little Bird is doing during some of his activities both in and out of his cage.
My grandparents also had a parrot a few years back and I remember him opening his arms in a sort of stretch. Also how he would run his beak through his feathers and I thought it was because of an itch. I'm not quite sure though. Great blog, by the way.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of my birds. I like the details and description you put of your bird it's amazing! Your post was entertaining and great it make me want to know more. Overall great job!
ReplyDeleteI like your sense of inquiry and wonder.
ReplyDeleteGreat detailed blog. But I wonder why they do that to their feathers? Have you tried searching it up? I can't wait to see what other things your little bird does.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed birds do that too; they seem like they comb their feathers, but I'm not entirely sure why they do that. Maybe they want to look fabulous? I don't know, but I do know that this blog is coming along really well. I really enjoyed reading about Little Bird. Just one thing...could you maybe upload a picture of your bird so we can see what your bird looks like?
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