Many people who live with parrots wonder if their bird is truly happy, if it has a good quality of life. Often, even with the best intentions, it is difficult to understand the needs of the wild animal in our care, and even more so to know if they are being met. In this post, I want to explore what animal welfare is, how it is interpreted, and which indicators we can consider in psittacines to evaluate, with some rigor, whether our parrot is experiencing good welfare. What is

Those of us who have lived or worked with parrots know how painful and frustrating a bite can be. Many times we don’t understand why it happens or what triggered it, and we end up thinking the animal is “bad.” But the reality is different: aggression is part of their natural behavioral repertoire and usually appears as a response to certain circumstances. Let’s take a look at what those are and, briefly, how we might address them. Aggression can be normal, but it’s not desira

The process of preparing certain animals for release into the wild can be very lengthy, sometimes taking several years for some species....