Posted by: Jamieleigh on: October 3, 2009
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Musha Cay, Bahamas
Fighting: Blue and gold macaws “Chayko” & “Jersey”
It’s not every day a celebrity parrot makes it in the news! You can read the article here.
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: September 30, 2009
Baby birds need A LOT of praise and encouragement when they do the right thing. In this video is the baby blue throated macaw I named, Zoey. She is still a baby and just learning how to fly around and use those wings of hers! When birds are so young, they’re [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: September 25, 2009
Photo by Dave
Location: Cruise Ship Backstage
Preening pal: Congo Grey “Cressi”
I love to spend quality time building my bond with my parrots, but sometimes they are just so high maintenance that it makes it on the line of miserable. I don’t want to always be “baby sitting” my birds, I’d like to just have us both [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: August 29, 2009
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Orlando, FL
In aviary: Camelot Macaws “Comet” & “Tusa”
When my three macaws were under 1 year old, they shared an aviary outside. They did really well together and hardly ever fought. I made sure food dishes were plentiful, water was always around and high perches were even and there were many for everyone. [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 4, 2009
While working with blue and gold macaws Jersey and Chayko in Musha Cay, Bahamas… it rained the last 2-3 days we were there and our only way of getting from one place to the other was via our golf cart that everyone on the island had. Luckily, you could pull the sides down to keep [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: April 10, 2009
Photo by Missi Bellande
Location: Naples, Florida
Fighting Macaws: Military Macaw “Cash” & Blue and Gold Macaw “Bailey”
So right before my trip to Moab, Utah a friend of mine, Missi, asked, “Would you ever consider rehoming your military macaw, Cash?”
She was on the look out for a mature, independant macaw that was on the larger side and [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: April 6, 2009
Almost everyone has given their dog peanut butter before, right? Well, my military macaw is probably one of the very few parrots that is not a fan of peanut butter! Well, I made up some saltines with peanut butter on them for myself and Dave decided to give one of my [...]
