Member of the Month
by Andie_Mcbride
Name: Meghan W.
Username: Meghanxx4.
Nicknames: I don’t have any now. Every once in while people call me Meg but I find it very annoying.
Name some of your hobbies: Boxing, graphics, cartoon drawing, bird research, and dogs.
Name the pets you have, besides birds, and their names: 2 dogs: Rosie a Chocolate Labrador, and Taz a Rhodesian Ridgeback. I also have one cat named Trixie. Her color is Tortiose Shelled. I also have a feeder fish named Mr. Fish.
Name the birds you have, what kind they are, and their names: I currently have 2 cockatiels: Tara is a Lutino, and Shylo is a Whitefaced Cinnamon Split Pied. Both of them are girls.
What persuaded you to get your birds: My sister got a budgie when I was in second grade and I really liked her bird, so I asked my mom for a budgie and a few months later I got my own budgie. Ever since I owned the budgie I've loved birds.
Do your birds get along well: Yes, they get on pretty well they live in the same cage sometimes if they are too close they sort of peck each other but there usually pretty good together.
Name some pet peeves you have: School, homework, guys who have no respect for women, and having braces.
What is your favorite place to visit on XO Parrots:
Probably The Lounge section because I guess you could say that’s where all the excitement is.
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read the entire interview.
Hot Buy
by bs007
My Hot Deal comes from a search that Jackie sent all of us on. This is a stainless steel bird cage that is absolutely beautiful & very reasonable for the size! It can be found at Everything Birds where you get a 110% low price promise & free shipping. The cage dimentions are:
Interior Dimensions: 42"(W) x 30"(D) x 50"(H)
Exterior Dimensions: 42"(W) x 30"(D) x 66"(H) (seed skirt adds approximately 4" around).
It comes with all the bells and whistles and you can choose from 5/8" or 1" bar spacing.
See The Cage.
XO Parrots Award
by Nancy
This months XO Parrots Award goes to My Too's. This website was handpicked by our Award Manager, a direct quote from her about the site can be found below.
"If you are considering having a cockatoo become part of your family, the following site is a MUST to read first."-Nancy
Check out their awesome website!
XO Parrots Book Club
by Liz
The book of the month is The African Grey Parrot Handbook by Mattie Sue Athan, Dinalee Deter, Dianalee Deter.
From the Publisher
From the Publisher
The African Grey can acquire a larger vocabulary than most other varieties, but with our without speech, it's a favorite companion among bird lovers. Here is detailed advice on nutritious feeding, caging, grooming, disease prevention, and much more. Titles in Barron's popular Pet Handbooks series instruct pet owners on health care, feeding and housing, and other facts important to owners and their pets. All books in this series have high quality, full-color photos, instructive line drawings, and run to an average of approximately 140 pages
Buy it Today!
Recipe Highlight
by Isaac Miller
Pepper-Crushed Beef with Blackberry Cabernet Glaze posted by Bari.
"Mmmmmmm.... meat...." To quote Homer Simpson. Who doesnt love their beef? Well this week I've chosen the "Pepper-Crushed Beef with Blackberry Cabernet Glaze" submitted by Bari. Here's why: It combines two of my favorite flavors meshing in a wonderful spicy sweet treat for four.
Check out Bari's recipe.
Rainbow Bridge Obituaries
by Tweetsnsylv
Spice#1 owned me for only 10 days. But in that short time he really "spiced" up my life. I still miss him.-Nancy
I miss you my little Luchy boy. There's never a day that goes by that I don't think about you. Fly free over the rainbow bridge my little man, I'll meet you there someday.-Alyssa
I only knew Pearl for a short three months, but she made it seem like much longer. She always lifted my spirits with her little "birditude" and made each day special. Pearl came so far in such little time and I was so proud of my baby. My heart constantly aches to see her just one more time. She will never be forgotten. -Andie
He came into my life on August 6, 2005. I never really got to see the real side to him, being that he was mainly a birds of a feather stick together kind of budgie. He made many great friends, especially Sidney the one he truly loved. I will always miss my little one, though I wasn't very close to him.-Mauro
Butterscotch: October 17, 2004 - March 10, 2007
You were a very special budgie to me. You don't know how much you meant to me, but I hope you do now. I had a close connection to you that even on days you were blue so was I and days you were happy I was happy. No other budgie can come close to what you meant to me. R.I.P Butterscotch.-Andres
Tweety and Sylvia were only with me for a short five months. Within those months they taught me a lot about patience and care. I'll forever miss my little man and my stubborn love.-Shea
To all of the birds that left me, I miss you all, you will never be forgotten.-Liz
Bird Profile
by Liz
This month's Bird Profile is a White Fronted Amazon. Check out this month's Bird Profile here.
Arcade Overview
by Meghanxx4
Tired of just posting all the time? Well then why don’t you hit the arcade? The arcade offers over 150 games, and new tournaments daily.
Luigi’s Mini Game:
In “Luigi’s Mini Game”, you navigate up and down using the arrow keys to catch starts and mushrooms. You also have to avoid flying bullets and flying ‘koopas’. If you hit too many "Koopas”, or bullets then it’s a game over. The object is to get the highest score by catching as many mushrooms and stars.
Lasagna from Heaven:
During this game, “Lasagna from Heaven”, various foods and objects are falling from the sky. Your job is to help Garfield by navigating your arrow keys side to side (< and > keys) and avoid anything you shouldn’t eat. Things you shouldn’t eat are: Odie the dog, vases, books, and televisions. So if you want to help out a fat cat named Garfield get food, check out this game in the arcade.
Clubby Seal:
Help Clubby the seal get revenge by killing all the evil Eskimos that killed other seals. Clubby must also collect flesh clothing made out of human skin and sell to the market. The object is to kill the most tundra people and sell as much human clothing as possible. Are you up to the challenge? If so then go help Clubby fight off the evil seal hunters.
Remember there are loads of games in the arcade, these are a just a few of them. So if none of these games appealed to you then go check out XOParrots fun filled arcade, which has over 175 games. There are also new tournaments daily. Hope you enjoyed this part of the newsletter. Now go and check out the arcade!
Arcade
New Members & Site Updates
by Lethalfire
Please check out the new members thread here.
The Budgie Adventures: Mr. Bibble & Darla
by Tweetsnsylv
Just another day. Mr. Bibble and Darla had already been fed, given water, and their cage uncovered. Darla was already preening her variously colored feathers of blue, yellow, and white. Mr. Bibble was busy looking around the room. You could tell he had spotted something, as his eyes were fixed on that one thing.
Darla finished her preening and asked, "What are you looking at?" She climbed to the perch Mr. Bibble was on.
"I see something," he murmured, eyes still fixed on whatever it was, "Down the hall. I see a light, and I hear voices."
Darla poked her head in front of Bibble to get a better look. "Well I'll be darned," Darla exclaimed.
"What do you figure it is?" she asked.
"I dunno," replied Mr. Bibble, "Let's go check it out."
"Bibble," she sighed, "We can't. We could get in trouble, or run into danger along the way."
"Don't be ridiculous," he replied, "It's just down the hall."
Darla shook her head as she watched Mr. Bibble open the cage door.
"Are you coming?" he asked. Darla sighed and followed Mr. Bibble. The two of them flew down the hall together. They took a break and perched on a nearby lamp shade.
"You said this was just down the hall," she gasped, "It's like a mile away."
"Well, it only takes the human a couple seconds to travel," Mr Bibble defended.
"Alright, let's go," Mr. Bibble said flying down the hall again. Darla followed, and the two entered the living room. It was dark, but they could make out some things that were visible in the moving light. The light coming from what had started the entire adventure. They perched on a coat rack. The two of them looked wide-eyed, speechless, as they had found the source of the moving light and voices.
"What do you figure it is?" Darla whispered.
"I don't know," Mr. Bibble whispered back. They watched, wide-eyed, for a couple minutes. All of a sudden, something flashed on the screen, startling Mr. Bibble and causing him to fall off the coat rack perch.
Find out what happens here.
XO Training Group
by Liz
Liz, I have a growling, biting Quaker named Peanut. Any helpful ideas/training pieces would be greatly appreciated. He's very smart and appears to have a sense of humor. We've only had him since late PM Friday.
"Try speaking softly to him and coaxing his nice bird qualities out. Sing to him and make sure to change his cage around on him every week or so. Just so he has a different environment and stays stimulated. When birds are bored they tend to get nervous and mean.
Being in a new home could be scaring him a bit, just take it slow.
Make sure he's getting 12+ hours of uninterupted sleep a night.
One last tip for the week; try to play some music for him. Classical and soft music when you leave the house or when no one is watching the television. It's calming and he just might enjoy it." -Liz
See the thread and see what else Liz said.
Hey Everyone,
This concludes our fourth issue, thank you so much for supporting XO Parrots and checking out the site. We have acquired so many new members recently, welcome to all and please make yourselves at home!
I would also like to say congratulations to our winner of the 1st photo contest on XO Parrots, the winner was M2Jackie who is also a new moderator. She has a Cockatoo named Charley. Our second place winner was Andres, A-n-M, congrats! He recently had a birthday, so happy birthday Andres and twin brother Mauro. Our third place winner is our moderator Julie, she has been doing a wonderful job on the forum and her pictures were beautiful. Congrats Julie! I would also like to say thank you to all of you who submitted your pictures, they were beautiful! Thanks for voting, we will have more contests soon, I promise.
HEATHEsaurusREX and Tweetsnsylv have recently joined us on the news team, welcome to the team! You will see more of Heather in our next issue but Shea has taken over this one. Check out her wonderful story. Have a great week and look our for our contests everyone.
Liz
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