bettyi

My mother's lovebird has begun constantly biting a much smaller parakeet on
the beak. These two birds share the same cage. The poor parakeet spends
much of the time head-first in it's little nest.

Does anyone have any suggestions regarding why and how to stop this
behavior?

good golly miss molly

Jesus christ why don't people do some research? Lovebirds must not be put
with any other birds. Take the parakeet out immediately before the lovebird
tears its face off and kill it.

owly

If they aren't separated the lovebird will kill the budgie (I assume that's
the kind of parakeet to which you are referring?). And when lovebirds kill
other birds, it isn't pretty. They usually go for the eyes first...

In short your answer is that you can't stop this behavior. The lovebird is
only doing what lovebirds do.
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alanwilliams

As other people have said, you can't stop it. The lovebird will kill the
budgie (if it's lucky by a quick skull crush) or maim it so badly (eyes
pecked out, beak removed, all toes bitten off) that you and it will wish it
was dead. The lovebird hasn't gone "rogue"; it is just being a lovebird.
Their name is very misleading.

Alan

starlight

You have to be a troll. I can't believe anyone would leave a bird
that was being tortured in the same cage with the torturing bird. No
one could be that ignorant.

xxxxgizziexxxx

Serious question---

How the hell do you suppose they ever got the name "love" birds??


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good golly miss molly

Cos they love biting other birdies toes and beaks off??

An ornithologist with a sense of irony?

Tara J. Ballance
Montreal, Canada

guido

The "MoFo" is a trill.

alanwilliams

Well when they pair off, the couples spend a lot of their time preening each
other, nestling up against each other and regurgitating for (which I guess
looks like French kissing) each other. Of course, the rest of the time
they'll be fighting with other couples or with each other :-)

IMO a lot of problems are caused because when two lovebirds meet they often
seem to have a play fight. Any bird that didn't respond correctly or which
didn't back down and fly away if the fight became serious (e.g. if it's of
another species, is in the same cage, or in one of my lovebird's case is IMO
retarded) would be in for a possibly terminal mauling. In any fight a
lovebird will have a huge advantage because they are brilliantly acrobatic
fliers and are programmed to attack the most vulnerable points; they are
quite capable of killing a bird many times their size with no injury to
themselves. IIRC in Hitch****'s "The Birds" it's caged lovebirds who seem
to trigger everything off.

Alan