Reply With QuoteShe is blushing and she obviously is a happy bird and happy to see you, Josey has done that too.:P
Anyone ever seen that b4? I noticed yesterday when I came home that the white area surrounding her eyes it looks pink, so I guess the skin underneath the little tiny white feathers is pink, it normally looks very white. CHarlie's is white.
This morning she looked white like usual, but this afternoon she looks pink again and it makes it look like she has bluish circles around her eyes.
All I fed them was their pellets and a mix of sweet potatoes and rice with red palm oil in it.
She did tear apart a pinata that has red in it, and dumped some in her water bowl. Any ideas? She doesn't feel hot. Thanks, Joanne
She is blushing and she obviously is a happy bird and happy to see you, Josey has done that too.:P
Never take life seriously, no one gets out alive anyway!
Okay, Thanks Judi good to hear from several people. Maybe I'm making some progress with my little Miss Fit! She never did it before yesterday! :woohoo:
Could it be the full spectrum lite by her cage? I wonder if its a sunburn.
No, it's not sunburn. Greys blush and the pink tone is natural when they do so.
Dayo does it too and other Greys at the breeders also blushed back when we were visiting Dayo there.
Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin. ~K.O. Eckland, "Footprints On Clouds"
Dayo in flight....
Well, that's what people keep telling me. But, I've had her since oct. 2003 and I've never seen this b4. And it happens to coincide with using the ZooMed light more now that I'm home more. I noticed it last week, so I turned off the lamp and used it for a shorter time the rest of the week and didn't turn in on every day. Then yesterday, I noticed her sitting right under it, about 18 inches away. Now today, guess what? She is very pink again on her face. I think she is getting too much sun.
Actually my new vet told me about a month ago that there is developing research that those avian full spectrum lights that have been touted for Parrots--most of them are perceived by the bird's vision like a strobe light and she said the new research is being done by an avian opthamologist. So she told me not to use them, that it bothers the birds eyes. Since these are preliminary studies that I have not seen published, I thought it was poo-poo but guess what?
Buddi's eyes look like she didn't get any sleep, like she has dark circles around them or like she's tired. So....I think I'm gonna stop with the Zoo Med light. I'll post again if the pink skin fades again. joanne
ps: yes, I use only the bulbs made by zoo-med for this avian lamp I paid alot of money for.
my zak always goes red round the eyes when he comes out of his house i think it must be an excitment thing cos he does it when i give him a kiss too its kinda cute :blush:
birdmom wrote:
Interesting Birdmom. As human sight goes, a frame-rate of 16 per second is perceived as true natural motion to us. Thus, strobe lights are adjustable between varying flashes per second, depending on the amount of delay we wish the audience to see between movement when the strobe flashes between 1 to 16 times per second.Actually my new vet told me about a month ago that there is developing research that those avian full spectrum lights that have been touted for Parrots--most of them are perceived by the bird's vision like a strobe light and she said the new research is being done by an avian opthamologist.
If (and it is totally possible) animals and birds can visually detect a higher frame rate or cycles per second. Then a light powered by our 60 hertz (cycles per second) electricity could induce a strobe effect to them.
If some animals and birds can indeed see the time interval between cycles above 16 per second, our lighting systems must drive them bonkers :-)
Now, I am going to see if I can find any research on the animal and bird optical studies of frame rate detection...B)
Thanks for posting this, it is interesting. I just may need to switch to hew electronically switched ballasts for my fluorescents. They have them available upto speeds of 27,000 cycles per second.
Another fix, would be to switch to DC powered lighting, which is not cyclical and remains at a constant voltage.
Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin. ~K.O. Eckland, "Footprints On Clouds"
Here ia a good link in relation to Avian sight and hearing. There is a huge variance between species, as you can see.
http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/RITCHISO//birdbrain2.html
Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin. ~K.O. Eckland, "Footprints On Clouds"
Kali is not a blusher, though I have heard other Greys can be. We do have quite a blusher in our Military Macaw. The only time Kali's face has been red is when he's fallen while beating up a toy. That's obviously bruising, not blushing!
I don't know about the full spectrum lights. Our birds get some natural daylight (outdoors) year round so have never used them. I have heard though there is new information coming out, and some of them do not provide what they claim.
Reta
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