RAINBOW LORY TWILLIE AND HIS BATH BOWL

This comes with special greetings to Susan in Tasmania in memory of Larry, her special little Lorikeet friend.

You've HEARD him doing his "Siren" imitation in the background of my video featuring Molly, our Camera-Shy Moluccan Cockatoo.... So, now, HEEEERE is Rainbow Lorikeet TWILLIE himself splishing 'n a splashing thru his bath bowl plus doing a little dancing and a little flirting in between while making a general happy mess. When he is satisfied that he is wet enough, he likes to skin a grape and spread the juice all over his feathers. Guess that's the Lory version of putting on perfume... The pink ball is his beloved sidekick and is ALWAYS within reach -- he goes NOWHERE without it!

Note: Twillie's cage is the one on the right -- the small one on the table behind him is a spare cage for all the parrots to play around with when they are out and about. Lories are extremely active and need a big cage PLUS lots of SUPERVISED time out!!! They also have special dietary needs and are a LOT more messy than the average parrot. Since they eat nectar and fruit rather than seed, their droppings are almost liquid and they like to squirt them out of their cages in any direction. That's in addition to slinging the nectar all around which dries like CEMENT on the walls! All that makes for a lot of extra 'fun' clean-up...

RECORDING METHOD:
Flip Video Ultra Camcorder - 4/6/2008

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Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Chattering
• Lory
• Lorikeet
• Bath
• Parrot
• Bird
• Adoption
• Rescue
• Australia
• Moluccan
• Cockatoo
• Flip
• Video
• Camcorder

[mumandtwins]

My lori Skittles is a virtual shitting machine and know about the cleaning up of the nectar as well. but the rewards of their personality far outweigh any mess they make.

[wildlifeguardian]

@mumandtwins: So is Twillie! Seems everything goes straight thru them -- in one end and out the other! ~lol~

[nutxlago]

You must smile a lot just watching this little "showbird"! Sweet, cute and wonderful thing!

[holmsatlarge]

Lovely video! I have a green naped lory of my own named Nikki! She is a wonderful pet. She is tame and very loving. They are wonderful birds! I live in Toronto, Canada.

[mumandtwins]

@wildlifeguardian yes and they can live considerably longer too my lori skittles was only hatched in December last year and already his/her personality is showing through latest trick is batching in the water dish LOL

[wildlifeguardian]

@verticalsmurf: ...and Toby never ever plucked or chewed on his feathers. He just liked to spread that grape juice all over him...

[wildlifeguardian]

@mumandtwins: Twillie is 13 years old this year (2011).

[mumandtwins]

@wildlifeguardian I had a cockatiel who would indulge in self destructive feather plucking, I just couldn't breed from him cos there would be risk to the chicks he lived to around 10 years old.

[wildlifeguardian]

@verticalsmurf: Twillie was very sick and on his death bed at age 5 (he is now 12) and has been chewing on the same parts of his body ever since! Our bird vet does not seem concerned with his 'chewing'. I'm thinking he might be somewhat allergic to the other 3 parrots' feather dust (2 Toos and a Grey)...

Dousing himself with grape juice has nothing to do with whatever makes him chew his feathers -- I think it's more like using perfume -- our late Chattering Lory did the same thing. :>)

[wildlifeguardian]

@Dutten777: Thank you, but everything I've read here in the U.S. indicates that it's safe to use black and white newspaper for the parrots and that it's no longer toxic -- COLORED newspaper, however, is NOT okay (even tho that too is supposed to be safer now in case children 'ingest' it). Twillie has been playing with newspaper for 12 years without any ill effects...

[Dutten777]

Very cute. Just a friendly warning when it comes to birds playing with newspaper. The ink on the newspaper is extremely toxic to birds and mammals and if enough is ingested, it can be deadly. A Lory's tongue is moist, so it can easily digest a lot of ink. I always give my Lory plain paper to play with, because he too loves tearing up paper. At least if you're going to let him tear up newspaper, don't let him tear up the parts that are too inky.