Fireworks

kikimorka

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Dec 2, 2014
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Volt - GCC
Hi guys,
the New Years Eve is approaching, and every year there is like 1 hour firework session on streets, with dogs loud barking, ducks outside going crazy, and all that. I'm a little bit worried about my GCC, he is such a coward. What shall I do to calm him down? There is no way to hide from the noise. Shall I cover his cage for that period? Thanks!
 

Birdman666

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Sep 18, 2013
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Presently have six Greenwing Macaw (17 yo), Red Fronted Macaw (12 yo), Red Lored Amazon (17 y.o.), Lilac Crowned Amazon (about 43 y.o.) and a Congo African Grey (11 y.o.)
Panama Amazon (1 Y.O.)
Not much you can do...

Start startle training them for next year?

Oddly, a couple of my birds actually seem to like fireworks...

Maggie and Sally particularly. I've had them outside watching the fireworks.

Sometimes Maggie likes it, and she's got her eyes and her head going. Other times not so much...

Sally likes the commotion. Her eyes are going, and she's whistling, and running around displaying. (She was EXTENSIVELY startle trained during her four month rehab. This bird has been to the Carnaval parade with me in SF. Drums. Hundreds of thousands of strangers. Loud music. Firecrackers. Never flew off once!)

Inside mine don't seem to care. I wouldn't take any of the other three outside. Tusk and Lila would be gone. Probably Sweepea too.
 

weco

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Nanday, suns, parrotlet, Patagonian
If you're going to ring in the new year with him, I think I'd sit with him, but if you're going to be out celebrating, I think I'd leave the lights on and probably a radio tuned to a music station...turning out the lights & covering his cage would require him to endure the fireworks in a darkened room with all the flashes, which would probably be scarier, all totaled.....

Good luck.....
 

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