What are birds that cant hurt people but are cuties ?
Pretty much any animal CAN hurt people. The degree to which it can hurt you varies.
can do a lot more damage than this thing
But that little thing has just as much rage in his heart as the big one. He just weighs 2oz instead of 150lbs. But he still has claws. I have been scratched by button quail before, and infection from dirty claws is still a risk if you're not careful.
That being said, there's plenty of small birds whose risk is minimal. Pretty much any quail or finch or pigeon/dove is not going to be particularly dangerous, and will be cute. But even then, not every pigeon is small.
This thing could probably still hurt someone.
Maybe not grievously, but those claws aren't terribly small, and they have a mean wing buffet when they strike with them.
What's better than trying to find an animal that CAN'T hurt you is researching behavior and figuring out how to handle the animal you have, so that you don't get hurt, and accept that you might get hurt, and weigh if that's acceptable or not.
Eris kicked me. I know that's a risk, I know that peafowl defend themselves by kicking. I know that they have spurs. I know that they can do damage. I know that she is more volatile than the others- not aggressive, but quicker to take offense to smaller issues. I made the move to dump a water bowl close to her, and that was a mistake on my part, defending herself/letting me know that I upset her was not a mistake on her part. Did I take an injury? Yes. But I also heard the communication behind it: I didn't like that, you scared me, don't do it again. There's no safety or logical reason I would have to dump a water bowl that close to her, so that's something I don't have to do again in the future, and I can still do all my care for her AND not scare her again by repeating that action the way I did.
There ARE times you have to do stuff animals don't like. Just last week I had to put a towel over my nesting hen and restrain her so I could pull a 3" long piece of straw out of her nose. She didn't like that. She tried kicking me, she screamed about it, she tried to get away. But for her safety and well being, I couldn't let a huge piece of straw bedding stay up her nose, and it ended up being long enough it wasn't coming out on its own. That's an instance where she communicated, and I understand, but I have to do the thing anyway, and I would do the thing again if I had to. But I wouldn't just go grabbing her and wrestling with her for no reason, because that could get one or both of us injured.
While pretty much all animals can hurt you in some way, there's almost no animal that will hurt you just to hurt you, with no reason behind it. They hurt you because they're scared, angry, hungry, territorial, accidentally, etc. There's a REASON, even if you don't understand it. Their thresholds for reacting to those states of being vary, and domesticated animals often have a very high threshold. The wilder an animal is, the lower the threshold often is, but even in domestic animals, the threshold can be low. You, as a caretaker or at least someone interacting with the animal, have the responsibility to learn their language ahead of time, and listen when they speak to avoid crossing that threshold unexpectedly.
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