★Feathered Gems★

Hey! I'm Dee and this is my blog dedicated to my Feathered companions Feathered Gems are: A green Indian Ringneck, Sonu. A blue Indian Ringneck, Moomi. Cockatiels Glory Jr. & Sylver Pearl. A Congo African Gray, Pretty Girl H. Pigeons Jesse Snow & Cocoa Dust. Canary; Jack Meringue Also, Mitchell the Betta fish I share pictures/videos of other birds, and animals too. Blessings! Feathered Gems across the Rainbow bridge: Canary, Angel Lemonade Leroy. Betta fish Angel Jasper Ambience. Betta fish Angel Amethyst Ambience. Zebra Finches Angel Ozzi Breeze & Angel Rini Breeze. Buttercup the Canary

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Someone is looking forward to see those boxes opening 🎁🎄🐤

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Squish her :)

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oh shit fuck it up

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@why-animals-do-the-thing - why would a bird do this?

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…I’m going to guess it’s a trained behavior, from two things: a) the bird is on a couch, so it’s obviously in an anthropic environment and b) it’s a very intentional behavior rather than a ‘whoops I screwed up that takeoff’. I can’t think of any reason that behavior would be useful in the wild, so occam’s razor would say it’s most likely a trained behavior (and a cool one at that - I can’t think of having seen other birds of any taxa do similar). 

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I’ve had a dove who did this without any training or conditioning. It was a response to being startled. After she did it the initial time when she was startled and was doing it as a threat display to a new bird she would intermittently do it for fun. I never encouraged the behaviour. It was entirely self taught.

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Rex does summersaults midair flying outside!

It was originally believed that it was a form of evasion from predators- but seeing as it wouldn’t help for this researchers determined it was for enjoyment. In fact, pigeons who are bred for this behavior called tumblers or rollers have lower levels of serotonin so they do it more often! Some have been bred for it so extremely that when they attempt to fly they just summersault backwards, sadly these birds are competitively thrown to see who tumbles the furthest. Many become afraid to fly because of it and will just fall to the ground when thrown.

Obviously this is a different behavior than pigeons tumbling midair though.

I don’t think I could train Rex to do it from the ground, she’s too heavy, but I bet I could train her to do it on command while flying :)

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Happy Halloween guys! 🎃🐦 Don't forget to keep your feather/fur/scaley companions safe. Enjoy!

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A visit to the Haunted House 😱🏠🎃

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Singing to the lights 💡🎶🎤🐤

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Jack says he finds something suspicious 😱   Jack strongly feels there's something suspicious ✔👽

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This black spook decoration doesn't scare Sonu. He sits on the toilet door anyways cause that spot belongs to him! 🎃🐦

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❤️

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angel

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Soooo beautiful!! 😍😍😍

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a dainty friend

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My pigeon alarm woke me up by putting her chest on my face because I stayed in bed for too long

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Moomi in Spooksville 👽 with all that Halloween bokeh going on 🎃

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Mickey is scary 😔

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Emma Lynn, Lisa A. Bono’s Bird