While spending the summer of 2010 in Coney Island, New York, Cake Boss came out and filmed part of their episode on the show. They made a special cake for the circus, and included lots of the animals and performers in it... making edible figurines of all of us.   Photo by Jason Gibson Location: Coney Island, NY Designed by Cake Boss: Swainson...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, FL Shown: Blue throated macaw "Jinx", Camelot macaws "Comet" & "Tusa"   I received this question after the entry of mine No Excuses: Ideas for exercising your bird.   Hey, I read your article on exercising bird by flying them. But my question is how do you get a bird to exercise by flying (even just in...

When a bird bobs his head, many people assume it's because the bird is begging for food and is really hungry. But I'm about to show you video as proof this isn't the case. In fact, birds of all different age ranges bob their heads for many different reasons. I even received this comment after posting this entry, which I found very interesting ...

Photo by Amanda Stevens Location: Waynesboro, VA Cuddling: Blue and gold macaw "Coco" I'm all over the place mostly, but I'm going to be dedicating most of my updates and posts back to this blog for a while. I feel better writing here. And if I do say so, Patty and Chet and our random guest bloggers do a swell job over at the other training b...

Photo by Chad Batka, NY Times Location: Coney Island, NY Pictured: Swainson Toucan "Fiji" Recently the New York Times came out and followed us and our flock around for an entire day to see what a day in the life on an average Sunday would be for us. Along the way our birds were featured quite a bit so I thought I'd share some of the pictures!...

Photo by Heinz Kluetmeier Location: Sarasota, Florida Pictured: Swainson Toucan "Fiji" I hate that I've not updated as much over here. However, I've been busy over at the birdtricks.com blog where it's practically updated daily! At least when I can think of enough content, hehe. However, I wanted to let you all know here about some very exci...