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Do your birds dye water2007-11-24 17:20:07

I have 3 water dishes in their room. Every day this week, one has had ONLY yellow Zupreem pellets, another ONLY purple Zupreem pellets, and the last ONLY red Zupreem pellets.

They don't do this with any other brand of food (I alternate).

I know other parrots do this (ya, and this is a stupid fun question :-) . How does your bird dye or mess up its water?

Answers:

Well now we know that your bird knows the differences in color! Birds have excellent color recognition.I find it interesting that he is separating them out from bowl to bowl.

It's fascinating behavior and I think you could probably train a color-recognition trick based on the evidence you've presented here.

My Grey actually plays in his water bowl occasionally. He'll actually get in and mess around, and "attack" the water and splash in it. He also sticks a foot in and swirls the water around.

He will also mess with his water bottle by putting a toe in the spout and letting the water dribble out.

This is all natural play behavior and if they have fun, that's terrific! Just change the water. And they'll start all over again!

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try google or ask.com

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Usually the same, I'll always find his carrots, pellets, seeds, poop in the water. Not sure if she's doing it on purpose, or it just gets dropped in the water.

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My umbrella cockatoo likes to throw anything and everything he can into his water. We give him a variety of fruits, pellet, and seed, occasionally a hard nut, and he has a ton of wooden toys ranging from pine to bottle brush. He will break off pieces of food/wood and throw it into the water. By mid day, his drinking water looks like the bottom of a green swamp. It's yummy and makes me want to drink some.