Westwind Aviary located in east central Minnesota near sturgeon lake, offering hand fed, Hand tamed Parrots make your appointment to meet some new friends today! Birds of a feather!
Healthy and Safe Vegetables for Birds Artichoke Beans, cooked only Bell Peppers Broccoli Brussels sprouts Carrot Cauliflower Celery stalks Chinese Cabbage Corn (milky & soft) Cucumber Eggplant (fruit only) Endive Fennel Green Beans Hot Peppers Kale Lettuce Peas Potato (cooked) Pumpkin (and seeds) Radish Red Beet (fresh) Radicchio Romain Lettuce Spinach Sprouts Squash Sweet Potato Turnips Watercress Yams Zucchini Please Note: Make sure vegetables are washed and preferably organic. The chemicals they feed and spray on the plants of some commercial farms may harm you and your birds.! High quality, fresh frozen is fine when fresh is not available! A bird eats very little! Try to not over feed a table spoon is a good measure for each bird to be fed!!
Toxic Wood for Birds
ALDER - red alder - see Alder / Alder Buckthorn paragraph at Dr. Vaden's site ANDROMEDA - (Pieris / Lily of the Valley shrub) APRICOT ARROWHEAD VINE AUSTRALIAN FLAME TREE AUSTRALIAN UMBRELLA TREE AVACADO AZALEA - Related to Rhododendron BANEBERRY - Actaea BEANS - (castor, horse, fava, broad, glory, scarlet runner) BLACK LOCUST - Robinia BOX ELDER BOXWOOD - Buxus BUCKTHORN - (Cascara / Alder Buckthorn - see chapter at Dr. Vaden's site) BRACKEN FERN BURDOCK CACAO CAMEL BUSH - Trichodesma CANARY BIRD BUSH - Crotalaria CANNABIS CASTOR BEAN CEDAR - Thuja, Chamaecyparis, Cupressus CHALICE - trumpet vine CHERRY (see Dr. Vaden's site) CHINA BERRY TREE - Melia / Texas umbrella tree CHINESE MAGNOLIA - uncertain for safety CHINESE POPCORN (TALLOW) CHINESE SNAKE TREE - Laquer plant: -- sap contact is bad too COMMON SAGE CORIANDER - Cilantro DATURA DAPHNE - it's the berries DATURA STRAMONIUM - Brugmansia: - - angel's trumpet DIEFFENBACHIA ELDERBERRY EUONYMUS - Includes burning bush and more EUPHORBIA FELT PLANT - Kalancho baharensis FLAME TREE FIRETHORN - Pyracantha FLAME TREE - Brachychiton / Sterculia FOXGLOVE GOLDEN CHAIN TREE - Laburnum GROUND CHERRY CROWN OF THORNS HEATHS HEMLOCK - Tsuga HOLLY - Ilex HONEY LOCUST - Gleditsia HORSE CHESTNUT - Aesculus HUCKLEBERRY - leaves bad: - - both evergreen or deciduous HYDRANGEA JASMINE JUNIPER - Juniperus KALMIA: also called Mountain Laurel KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE LANTANA - red sage LAUREL - Prunus LEUCOTHOE LUPINE MANGO -(fruit okay: not wood or leaves) MEXICAN BREADFRUIT MOCK ORANGE -(fruit, see note in safe list) MONSTERA MOUNTAIN LAUREL MYRTLE - is a broadleaf evergreen: Is not the same as crape myrtle NUTMEG OAK - Quercus - all parts / tannins MISTLETOE OLEANDER ORANGE - several sources lean toward safe PEAR - some sources lean toward safe PENCILTREE PITCH PINE PRARIE OAK - safety uncertain PRIVET RAIN TREE RED MAPLE - see Maple paragraph at Dr. Vaden's site RED SAGE - Lantana REDWOOD - - - Sequiadendron, Metasequoia, Sequoia RHODODENDRON RHUBARB SAND BOX TREE - - - sap has been used to poison fish SOLANUM - Jerusalem cherry or pepino SOPHORA - - - includes Japanese pagoda tree & Mescal SUMAC - - - not all sumacs are toxic: (see Dr. Vaden's site) TOBACCO TANSY TOMATO - stems, vines, and leaves UMBRELLA TREE WEEPING FIG -(Benjamin Fig or Ficus benjamina - see Dr. Vaden's site) WHITE CEDAR - China WITCH HAZEL - Hamamelis WISTERIA YEW - Taxus
Plants "Toxic" for birds
ARUM LILY AMARYLLIS ARALIA ARROWHEAD VINE AUTUMN CROCUS AUSTRALIAN FLAMETREE AUSTRALIAN UMBRELLA TREE AVOCADO AZALEA BANEBERRY BEANS: (CASTOR, HORSE, FAVA, BROAD, GLORY, SCARLET RUNNER, MESCAL, NAVY, PREGATORY BABY'S BREATH BIRD OF PARADISE BISHOP'S WEED BLACK LAUREL BLACK LOCUST BLEEDING HEART OR DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES BLOODROOT BLUEBONNET BLUEGREEN ALGAE BOXWOOD BRACKEN FERN BUCKTHORN BULB FLOWERS:(AMARYLLIS, DAFFODIL, NARCISSUS, HYACINTH & IRIS) BURDOCK BUTTERCUP CACAO CAMEL BUSH CASTOR BEAN CALADIUM CANA LILY CARDINAL FLOWER CHALICE (TRUMPET VINE) CHERRY TREE CHINA BERRY TREE CHRISTMAS CANDLE CLEMATIS (VIRGINIA BOWER) CLIVIA COCKLEBUR COFFEE (SENNA) COFFEE BEAN (RATTLEBUSH, RATTLE BOX & COFFEEWEED) CORAL PLANT CORIANDER CORNCOCKLE COYOTILLO COWSLIP CUTLEAF PHILODENDRON DAFFODIL DAPHNE DATURA STRAMONIUM (ANGEL'S TRUMPET) DEATH CAMUS DELPHINIUM DEVIL'S IVY DIEFFENBACHIA (DUMB CANE) EGGPLANT leaves ELDERBERRY ELEPHANT EAR (TARO) ENGLISH IVY ERGOT EUCALYPTUS (DRIED, DYED OR TREATED IN FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS) EUONYMUS (SPINDLE TREE) EUPHORBIA CACTUS FALSE HELLEBORE FLAME TREE FELT PLANT (MATERNITY, AIR & PANDA PLANTS) FIG (WEEPING) FIRE THORN FLAMINGO FLOWER FOUR O'CLOCK FOXGLOVE GYPSOPHILA PANICULATA - Sap of plant GLOTTIDIUM GOLDEN CHAIN GRASS: (JOHNSON, SORGHUM, SUDAN & BROOM CORN) GROUND CHERRY HEATHS: (KALMIA, LEUCOTHO, PEIRES, RHODODENDRON, MTN. LAUREL, BLACK LAUREL, ANDROMEDA & AZALEA) HELIOTROPE HEMLOCK: (POISON & WATER) HENBANE HOLLY HONEYSUCKLE HORSE CHESTNUT HORSE TAIL HOYA HYACINTH HYDRANGEA IRIS IVY: (ENGLISH & OTHERS) JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT JASMINE (JESSAMINE) JERUSALEM CHERRY JIMSONWEED JUNIPER KY. COFFEE TREE LANTANA (RED SAGE) LARKSPUR LILY OF THE VALLEY LILY, ARUM LOBELIA LOCOWEED (MILK VETCH) LOCUSTS, BLACK/HONEY LORDS & LADIES (CUCKOOPINT) LUPINE MALANGA MARIJUANA (HEMP) MAYAPPLE(MANDRAKE) MEXICAN BREADFRUIT MEXICAN POPPY MILKWEED, COTTON BUSH MISTLETOE MOCK ORANGE MONKSHOOD MOONSEED MORNING GLORY MTN. LAUREL MUSHROOMS, AMANITA MYRTLE NARCISSUS NETTLES NIGHTSHADES: (DEADLY, BLACK, GARDEN, WOODY, BITTERSWEET, EGGPLANT leaves, TOMATO -stems, vines, and leaves,JERUSALEM CHERRY) OAK OLEANDER OXALIS PARSLEY PEACE LILY PERIWINKLE PHILODENDRONS: (SPLIT LEAF, SWISS CHEESE, HEART-LEAF) PIGWEED POINCIANA POINSETTIA POISON IVY POISON HEMLOCK POISON OAK: (WESTERN & EASTERN) POKEWEED POTATO SHOOTS POTHOS PRIVET PYRACANTHA RAIN TREE RANUNCULUS, BUTTERCUP RAPE RATTLEBOX, CROTALARIA RED MAPLE RED SAGE (LANTANA) RHUBARB LEAVES RHODODENDRONS ROSARY PEA SEEDS SAND BOX TREE SKUNK CABBAGE SORREL (DOCK) SNOW DROP SPURGES: (PENCIL TREE, SNOW-ON-MTN, CANDELABRA, CROWN OF THORNS) STAR OF BETHLEHEM SWEET PEA SWISS CHEESE PLANT (MONSTERA) TANSY RAGWORT TOBACCO UMBRELLA PLANT VETCH: HAIRY/COMMON VIRGINIA CREEPER WATTLE WEEPING FIG WHITE CEDAR, CHINA BERRY WISTERIA YEWS YELLOW JASMINE
Our Bird Brains project is just for fun!! But if your not very careful??... You just might learn something about our birds friends along the way!! Currently posted at the bottom of our "What Customers Tell Us!" page
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Our Cockateils are handled daily to assure our customers of friendly birds that will seek there owners out for attention, Many of our customers comment about how friendly and family ordinated our birds are and what personality they seem to carry for all family members!
We Welcome "Mercedes" To Our Flock
Our long Held pair of Cars and Spike are very proud to announce the arrival of there very first chick, Mercedes! What a surprise she is too!! we had no idea and was completely blind sided by both her arrival and her colors!! we have had this pair bonded together for years with no result!! a true wonderment from start to finish!! sorry we're keeping this little lady for breeding!! she's parent raised and we are planing a mate for her already!!