Post by Roli on Dec 13, 2007 17:28:49 GMT 10
I just found this web site - it looks great!
We have owned a Rainbow Lorikeet for 3 years. Her/His name is LUCKY, (we think that she is a she!) so called because of the circumstances of her adopting us.
I was standing in front of our house (we are fairly remote in the Adelaide Hills with the nearest neighbor about half a kilometer away) at about 8.30 am it was already hot at around 35 degrees. I looked down and in the flower bed below the veranda was what I initially thought was a Rosella which took one look at me and flew onto my shoulder - I walked into the house and the bird flew onto my wife's shoulder.
In the room was a water fountain that the bird then immediately flew to and spent the next 20 minutes drinking. Something she has never done since so she must have been very dehydrated and would in all probability died had she not found us.
She was very young, an immature adult, when she arrived and we presume had some level of human contact but we never found out if she had escaped or what the circumstances were.
In the past 3 years we have got used to her poo and screaming when she wants attention - a little inconvenience for a delightful addition to our family.
Her cage door remains open all day and she has the run of the house. She has her favorite places and loves to get into boxes, handbags, paper bags. She also likes to push items off tables. Keys are a big favorite, so much so that it was almost impossible to leave the house because she wanted to take the keys from our hands, so she now has a set of keys hanging in her cage.
I work from home and she will spend a lot of time in my office where I have built her a "tree". She spends time on my shoulder or will often go to sleep on my lap under the desk.
She will also find things to occupy herself such as emptying coins from a bowl where we throw our spare change, getting the keys out of the key bowl and dropping them on the floor. She has a postal tube about 20cm long that she likes to roll around the floor, all over the house.
Often she will follow me or my wife into other rooms, either by flying after us or flying onto our shoulders.
There is another postal tube in her cage which she sleeps in. Except when resting, which is seldom because she is very active, she is always chattering away making some sort of noise.
I have never had experience with birds before so I am totally fascinated with the level of intelligence (she has discovered that she can roll around on a towel to dry herself after a bath), the amount of personality that she has and also the way she has bonded to us.
There a two links below to videos of Lucky. The first one is when she discovered that a perch I made for her could be used to bounce on. The second one was taken on my desk and shows her 'making up' to my hand.
<a href="http://webwork.com.au/lucky/Movie_0001.wmv" target=blank>Perch Video</a>
<a href="http://webwork.com.au/lucky/lucky_on_desk.wmv" target=blank>Desk Video</a>
We have owned a Rainbow Lorikeet for 3 years. Her/His name is LUCKY, (we think that she is a she!) so called because of the circumstances of her adopting us.
I was standing in front of our house (we are fairly remote in the Adelaide Hills with the nearest neighbor about half a kilometer away) at about 8.30 am it was already hot at around 35 degrees. I looked down and in the flower bed below the veranda was what I initially thought was a Rosella which took one look at me and flew onto my shoulder - I walked into the house and the bird flew onto my wife's shoulder.
In the room was a water fountain that the bird then immediately flew to and spent the next 20 minutes drinking. Something she has never done since so she must have been very dehydrated and would in all probability died had she not found us.
She was very young, an immature adult, when she arrived and we presume had some level of human contact but we never found out if she had escaped or what the circumstances were.
In the past 3 years we have got used to her poo and screaming when she wants attention - a little inconvenience for a delightful addition to our family.
Her cage door remains open all day and she has the run of the house. She has her favorite places and loves to get into boxes, handbags, paper bags. She also likes to push items off tables. Keys are a big favorite, so much so that it was almost impossible to leave the house because she wanted to take the keys from our hands, so she now has a set of keys hanging in her cage.
I work from home and she will spend a lot of time in my office where I have built her a "tree". She spends time on my shoulder or will often go to sleep on my lap under the desk.
She will also find things to occupy herself such as emptying coins from a bowl where we throw our spare change, getting the keys out of the key bowl and dropping them on the floor. She has a postal tube about 20cm long that she likes to roll around the floor, all over the house.
Often she will follow me or my wife into other rooms, either by flying after us or flying onto our shoulders.
There is another postal tube in her cage which she sleeps in. Except when resting, which is seldom because she is very active, she is always chattering away making some sort of noise.
I have never had experience with birds before so I am totally fascinated with the level of intelligence (she has discovered that she can roll around on a towel to dry herself after a bath), the amount of personality that she has and also the way she has bonded to us.
There a two links below to videos of Lucky. The first one is when she discovered that a perch I made for her could be used to bounce on. The second one was taken on my desk and shows her 'making up' to my hand.
<a href="http://webwork.com.au/lucky/Movie_0001.wmv" target=blank>Perch Video</a>
<a href="http://webwork.com.au/lucky/lucky_on_desk.wmv" target=blank>Desk Video</a>
I love the vids too. I hope you enjoy yourself here, we have heaps of fun and learn too. 
