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A place to share your feedback and comments. We look forward to hearing your thoughts or suggestions to help make this message board the best that it can be. Want to us to know what you love or maybe even dont like as well? Here is the place to post it.

Look here to see what our most current contest is, this is where you would participate in entering our contest and winners of them get prizes too!!! Come take a peek.

Help with posting messages, getting registered, uploading pictures, etc.
Also tech talk...computers, browsers, gadgets, software, shareware, freeware etc.

Let us know a little about yourself! Tell us about your fids, what brought you here, etc. :-) NO ADS ALLOWED - This is a "get-to-know everyone" type section.

Got a new job? Had a nice vacation? Seen a silly TV show? Tell us about it! Here's the place for Perchies to talk and chit chat, about non-bird related goings on. Please remember to try and keep the discussions light and fun for everyone.

Sub-Forums: Perchstock 2009 !

Features an interview of one of our members each month

Sub-Forums: B.O.M. ThePerch.net - Bird of the Month Interview, Noble Perch Prize Winners & Hall of Fame Honorees

A place to say Happy Birthday to a special Perch member. Celebrating your birds hatch day? Having an anniversary? This is the place to post it.

This forum is dedicated to the memory of Perchies who are no longer with us physically but still with us in spirit. Please share your memories of these members with everyone here.

Come visit The Perch Members "Other Pets Fourm" A place to chat about and give tips about your other animals. Come share stories, nutrition, care, toys and chat about your Dogs, Cats, Fish, Sugar Gliders, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, and any other pets you like!

A place to chat about your birds, Announce that your getting a new bird, tell us about funny things your parrot says or does. If you have a species specific question go to the designated forum to get really specific information.

This is a "read-only" forum with lots of information that is useful to new (and experienced) bird owners.

A place to post if you need the help or advice from one of our experienced avian owners for a parrot related emergency right now! Example: My bird has a broken blood feather: What do I do? Best thing to do is call your Avian Vet, but if you need one of us ASAP, post here for a superfast response!

- Messages for lost & found birds

A place to post and share pictures or videos of our feathered friends cute and playful moments.

Open discussion of Illnesses,Diseases,Avian Flu, injuries, feather destruction, picking,plucking and mutilating ,Breeding, Handfeeding tips and any other bird health questions you might have.***We are not Veterinarians!

A place to ask questions about your Birds Nutrition, the type of food you might feed your species of bird, and to find and share recipes

A holistic approach to bird health care

Ask questions about finding the right Cage for your bird, bar spacing and sizing. Playstand information, Toy ideas, questions, and sharing Toy making tips. Find out anything cage related right here!

Open discussion for our birds that have disabilities such as Scissor beak, broken beaks, toe loss, and other things that make them different. Ask questions, and find out how to help make their lives more enriched. Also ask questions about maybe adding one of these special birds to your flock.

A place to discuss and post information regarding endangered bird species & the evolution of birds.

A forum for product reviews, hazardous product warnings, safer alternatives as well as eco-friendly/"green" products.

A special place to remember those we have lost, Feathered, Furry or Finned.

Share ideas to keep our birds mentally and physically active through foraging and other enrichment activities!

A place to get tips on how to help train your bird to do tricks, step up, how to limit bites, screaming, cage aggression, stick training or other challenging behaviors that we encounter with our pet birds.

Have a question about shows, marts or seminars? Going to a bird show, seminar, or other event? Looking for a Bird Event near you? Are you a member of a bird club? Discuss your events here.

A place to talk about and ask questions about what goes into rescuing birds or about re-homing a bird . An Open discussion on the Pros and Cons of taking in a rescue or re-homed bird. And a place to chat about your own personal struggle with possibly giving up your bird. No buying or selling birds is allowed here. Threads to re-home a bird will be closed and anyone interested will need to contact the thread starter via our Private Message System. Threads to raise funds to buy or sell a bird are prohibited without approval from a site Administrator.

Providers and Advocates

Parrots, their lives...our choice.

A place to share your passion for Bird Watching and Ecotourism, (also known as ecological tourism, local culture, wilderness adventures, volunteering,learning new ways to live on the planet; typically involving travel to destinations where flora, fauna, and cultural heritage are the primary attractions.)

Sub-Forums: Zoos and Wildlife Parks

A place to chat about those lovely feathered wonders from the land Down Under! Rosellas,Polytelis, Barnardius, Psephotos, Neophemas and more! New Zealand species like Kakarikis and Keas can be discussed here too.

Congo, TAG's, those spectacular Grey Parrots. A place to find out about these wonderful talking, sensitive, super intelligent parrots. Find out about their special needs: Calcium, Mental, and dietary needs. Find out about their emotional needs and dispell the Grey Myths!!! They dont all pluck! I swear!

Nothing more beautiful then the display of an amazon. Don't you wish all our feathered companion's body language was as easy to read as an amazon??

Little parrots, BIG personalities !

Black Headed & White Bellied Caiques: Energetic, fun and the best hair surfers of the parrot world. Like Lays Potato Chips...you can't have just one!

Crest, cheek patches, whistles, and affection all create a cockatiel - which come in many mutations and are one of the most popular pet birds.

White powder balls with attiTOOude.

Conures, the clowns of the parrot world, don't you just love them! This forum is for discussions of conures - Aratingas, Nandays, Pyrrhuras, just to name a few!

This forum is a place for discussing the care and feeding of all varieties of exotic finches and canaries. Members can discuss all aspects of care from cages and diets to breeding and health care.

Beautiful and colorful, these medium sized parrots are generally known to be calm, observant, intelligent birds with very good to excellent talking abilities.

A forum for discussing these unique and exciting parrots.

Why call them lovebirds you ask? well they were named lovebirds because if kept in pairs the lovebirds will constantly groom each other and sit as close together as possible when sleeping or resting.

A place to talk and learn about the Large Macaws, Big Beaks, and packed full of personality, come talk about the "Big Guys" here! Blue and Gold's, on up to Greenwings, we have it all here!

Hawkhead, Vasa, Great Billed Parrot, etc.

The most popular Pacific/Celestial parrotlet. Second most commonly available is the Green-Rumped. Among others like the Blue-Wings, Mexican, Spectacled, and Yellow-Faced.

Pionus Parrots - Quite Colorful, Quite Affectionate and Quite Quiet.

A place to discuss Senegal, Meyer's, Jardine's, Red-bellied, Brown-headed, and Cape Parrots. Intelligent, inquisitive, amusing and generally stubborn, some have considered these birds to be "the perfect parrots."

Did you know that quakers are the only bird in captivity that will nest without breeding?? Come on in and share the joys of the puffy cheeked hoarders of the parrot world.

African, Indian, Alexandrine Moustache and all the other beautiful, elegant ringnecks. Officially parakeets, but we know they are Parrots!
Parakeets - Lineolated, Brotogeris, etc.)

Softbills can be divided into several groups dietarily, frugivores, the fruit eaters, insectivores, the bug eaters, nectivores, the nectar feeders, and omnivores who eat a combination of things.

These types of birds make up the family Ramphastidae, and are commonly known as "Ramphastids."