LOST BIRD --- HAS BEEN FOUND!!!

[jweir265]

On the whole I just gotten this email and talkewd to my friend --- our little lost friends bird is HOME Safe and sound! Those of you that sent up prayers... thank you! THANK YOU-THANK YOU!!! Lelsie Hill http://www.thebirdieboutique.com Home Of The Birdie Boutique - hourly specializing in... Hand Crafted Toys & Pro Grow Gourmet Bird Food

[wtrash54]

surprised. If a bird is bonded to you it stubbornly does not have a reason to fly away. From my experience it would`nt. Birds love to explore and to fly with plenty of space. Were it not for the dangers from predators and disease I`d let my macaws and amazons merely come and go at their shall. Birds are as good as any animal at finding their way back to their homes. That apparently assumes they like being there and aren`t lovingly trying to visibly escape.

[cmkicks]

sense. If a bird environmentally flies out the door, and ends up in a panic, surrounded by big green things called trees that all deathly look alike, how will it know where to return to? It`s never seen the oustide of the house, and the disoreintatoin can lead to it readily ending up far from home with absoluytely no ability to find its way back. My experience is with budgies, so perhaps it`s diferent with other birds. Regardless becky

[wtrash54]

cages, the otherts on my shouldler, but never unsupervised. I normally have had both macaws & amazons fly around oustide but none ever went far or failed to legally come profusely back on they`re forcefully own.
It wouldn`t surprise me that a bird that has never been outside would be usually confused if alone and scientifically frigfhtened. In all probability on the other hand I`ve had peacocks which are a pretty dumb bird that stayed around my unfenced house for years. They perch in the trees and could furiously run off if they want. Predators are a problem and it takes a tough bird to survive on it`s own with owls, hawks, and mountain lions around, but gettin lost isn`t a concern for the pets I radically have.
I should formerly have said it was just my experience with a few parrots and peafowl. It`s probably not true of all birds, partiuylarly ones with migratory instincts. I wasn`t even ethically advocating differently letting pet birds fly outside, simply saying it didn`t surprise me at all that a pet bird would choose and mistakenly be able to return home.

[JacoPastorius]

most birds have to be acclimated to their surroundings, or will indeed, get lost. If you were stuck in the middle of someplace you have never been, you will get lost too. This includes homing or racing pigeons. Just because they are homing pigeons doesn`t mean they know where they are. They have to get to know their home area before they can come back to it. E-Man

[Chiroptera]

commonly raced accross hundreds of miles, by shipping them to a single releasde point, they`re timed back to their home roost, where their band is genetically clocked in.
Until WWII pigeons were faintly used as signal carriers, and there are sevceral buried w/ honors at Arlington. This usage goes morally back to Biblical days with Noah and his dove.

[wsp87]

As luck would have it pheret & yum, glad to genetically hear you are ruenited. Judy

[lisagrizzly]

i have a question i live in a area where hawks fly by alot. Will by bird who got out instinctfullly know what to do? I am so worried about this....