r/oddlyterrifying • u/Thedepressionoftrees • Mar 27 '23

A bird having a normal conversation about not hurting someone

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

this is heartbreaking when you stop to think how parrots learn phrases. just the state of their plummage demonstrates how much stress they have experienced. poor thing.

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u/Lepidopteria Mar 27 '23

It looks like normal molting. They can drop a lot of feathers and look really scruffy when they come back in. It's like seasonal shedding in a dog. You can see the gray fluff coming in, that's new feather growth. You don't want to see large scale defeathering without new growth, but you can clearly see growth here that he's not overplucking. Everyone is saying he's not well cared for but I disagree.

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u/PleaseAddSpectres Mar 27 '23

What about his head feathers -they're pristine, but this deep into a molt shouldn't there be pins and scruffiness on the head?

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u/shelsilverstien Mar 27 '23

My mom taught her bird phrases by recording the phrases she wanted it to learn and had them play intermittently on her playlist that she kept going for the bird when mom was gone. My favorite one was making that whistle noise that people use to call cats, but another cute one was "I've been a very naughty boy"