Your perch or mine? Transylvania professor asks what makes cockatiels fall in love

What makes a harmonious pair of Cockatiels? Image by Jim Bendon.Transylvania University biology professor Becky Fox came up with a sort of “eHarmony for parrots” when she discovered how cockatiels’ personality types predicted long-term compatibility. She’ll share the results in an upcoming issue of the journal Zoo Biology. “It’s my hope that some zoos that are managing birds in captivity might find this kind of thing useful,” Fox said.

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Parrot dies a hero's death as he saves family in blaze

Cockatiel gave his life to save his human family from fire. A PET parrot has been hailed a guardian angel after giving its own life to save a Llanelli teenager from a bedroom blaze.

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Thousands of birds die in sweltering heat

Warning: Grafic pictures!      

 Populations of budgerigars, crimson chat, cockatiel, and zebra finch have exploded throughout the lower Murchison, about 3 hours northeast of Geraldton, after unseasonably high winter and spring rainfall sparked a breeding frenzy.THOUSANDS of birds have dropped dead at the Overlander Roadhouse, 200km south of Carnarvon, apparently perishing from extreme heat and lack of water.

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Don’t release the tiny exotic budgie, your compassion can kill it

BudgerigarNew Delhi Wildlife SOS ‘rescues’ budgerigars released by Delhiites, says these Australian birds can’t survive here and become crow feed.

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Exotic birds fall prey to foreclosure crisis

Cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus) Photo: City parrots

Real estate agent Jeffrey Dolfinger was making a routine occupancy check on a foreclosed home near Poughkeepsie, New York, when he made a heart-wrenching discovery: two bedraggled cockatiels nearly starved to death.

"We had entered into this wreck of a house, opened the door, where there sat two cockatiels with about a six-inch-high pile of bird feces under them," Dolfinger said. "I'm not a bird person, but I knew a bird is not supposed to look this way."

Despite terrible bird allergies, Dolfinger gathered them up and brought them to a pet store specializing in birds. A woman at the store nursed them back to health.

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