wild birds eating from hand

Dedicação pra Brunettenet e o pai dela XD

I guess they call them tiribas (Pyrrhura frontalis) here.

They were already getting used to me, but just started today with trying to get closer. I've only been trying with the coins, but it was getting difficult. So I need to make them less scared of me. This is how far I got.

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[Ricardo Silva]

nice, these birds have the colors of Brazil..

[CraniumOnEmpty]

seeing as I'm colorblind, I rely on others to point this out to me. Surprisingly no other Brazilian has said that to me. Maybe they thought I knew.

[Ricardo Silva]

just a correction, "the colors of the flag of brazil".

[CraniumOnEmpty]

oh, ok. cool. What are the official colors of Brazil?

[GodlessManitoban]

The pigeon :p

[CraniumOnEmpty]

Yeah, I figured that's what it's doing, but I'm not going to really stop it, since the pigeons.. uh, parakeets aren't too afraid of it. If it chased them off that would be different.

[CraniumOnEmpty]

lol, hmmm, I give up. Which?

[Lorraynne Miranda]

I just need to point that, that pigeon is HUGE and fat ... he might be stealing the little ones food.... just saying.... If i was a big bad ass pigeon that would be what I would do .... :P

[GodlessManitoban]

Which one of these birds isn't the same.

[CraniumOnEmpty]

Yeah, I figured getting trust is an easier route to really training them since they don't really trust humans much. Then I can start with the hard stuff. As far as the big pigeon, it lives in a tree in the next property. It just started coming for some reason. I guess it's getting comfortable. If you see the one parakeet that keeps getting on it's back, I think it's funny. It stood there for a while before I got the camera and then it just did it a little.