Can a bird eat a roasted coffee bean ok?

Coffee contains caffeine and caffeine is not good for birds.

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Sincerely,
Joanne

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It's one of the things I have always been told to avoid, caffeine.
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"Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites.
Moderation is for monks."

[Lazarus Long]

For you or the birds.

Trust me, if it's you, something else will get you before caffeine does.

Life without coffee would be nearly as intolerable as life without
cigars.

LOL, no I mean the birds. The "experts" can't ever seem to make up their
mind on caffeine and humans. One day it's great, the next day it's bad. I
could care less what they say, I indulge in plenty of it daily. My Macaw
does try to get at my coffee all the time when he sees me drinking it. I
don't know if it's because he likes the smell or it's just that since I have
it, he wants it. I would suspect it's just he sees me with it. At times when
we are outside in the morning he can be VERY persistent in trying to grab at
the cup. <G>
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Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer.
Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does
not go nearly as well with pizza.
--Dave Barry

My Macaw does the same thing when I drink coffee. I stopped drinking
it a long time ago, but not for any reason other than the drugs I take
make it taste like crap.

I do put a little apple juice or guava nectar in a small paper cup and
she loves to lap at that. I don't do that too often. For some
reason, my particular bird can't have a lot of fruit or she gets the
runs.

I think with most all pet birds they want what they see us eat or drink.
They figure if we are having it, it's got to be good. If I hand the Macaw a
piece of banana he will take a bite and drop it. If I stand there and eat it
and keep offering him some, he will eat as long as I do. Like kids <G>
The fruit juice does the same thing with him. He LOVES any kind of juice,
and will get very runny droppings for a little bit but I assume it's just
because there's not much too it so most of it just passes through pretty
quick.
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"Little girls like butterflies, need no excuse".

Lazarus Long

I brought home a 2 kilo bag of Combate (a popular brand of Mexican
roasted coffee) and foolishly left it on the dining table. My B&G
macaws (probably the male) ripped open the bag and spread it all over
the table and floor. Some beans where "crunched", obviously by them
biting the beans. That got them a day of cage time but no other
apparent ill effects. I tried offering them each a bean the next day.
In both cases they took it but on tasting it dropped it. My conclusion
is that roast coffee beans aren't poisonous, they aren't particularly
good tasting to a bird, and (like just about everything else) they need
to be kept away from the birds just because they're curious and like to
play with them. Had that been a bag of almonds most would have been
shelled and some eaten.
As to liquid coffee, my macaws want to try >anything< I happen to be
drinking. They don't care for coffee. Any kind of fruit juice they
insist on sharing. Saying no to a pair of macaws perched on each
shoulder isn't wise.

A more likely thing for them to drink which contains caffeine are
various type of soft drinks. They're sweet like juices. I don't bring
those home after the make opened a can. He didn't pull the tab, just
bit hole in the can. He enjoyed the cold shower but didn't drink much.
What a mess!

I don't recall where I read this, but it may have been in "The Well
Behaved Parrot" that, pet birds, especially parrots must take part in
flock eating, feeding one another, etc. Since we are her flock if we
are eating something which is okay for her to eat I let her eat off my
plate. It's not enough for me to give some to her. She must eat it
directly from where I am eating from.

If it's something she shouldn't be eating, like my husbands steak or
chicken I put some of HER food on his or my plate and she is just as
happy. So I think it's not only she likes our food, but she has the
need to feed us and us feed her. Make sense?