Note:The video files are quite large and may require 30-60 seconds to load over a DSL or Cable modem. I don't recommend clicking on them if you have a dialup connection.


For a site that has absolutely outstanding (and almost unbelievable) slow-motion up-close videos of Macaws coming in for a landing, go to http://www.showstudio.com/project/perroquet. You can see each vibrant feather in excrutiating detail as the birds flap. They can be enlarged to full screen by clicking on the small double-arrow icon at the bottom left of each film.
Definitely NOT a macaw - 360degree movie of Eagle flying over the Dolomite Mountains

My pathetic films are below.

Click in any of the small pictures to start the video and click again to enlarge it.


From the tree to the bush below ...

With the Greenwing watching in the background, this Blue and gold Macaw climbs out on a tree limb, and when it bends down, climbs down into the bush below. The sound is horrible because it was very windy.

Sugimac and Jazy enjoying a shower on the top of their aviary

Eating the Crape Myrtle and trying to climb up it are fun too. the loud noise in the film is a garbage truck in the ally.

Short    Long Bird & Puppy

They'd *really* like to rough-house, but ...

Move your Tail Over

The B&G has trained the GW how to switch places with him on a perch.

Popcorn Frenzy.

Jazzy chowing down and sharing a big bowl of popcorn with me - an example of static cling!

An attempt at a wing clip.

The Greenwing puts up with it (sort of) but the Blue & Gold is *not* happy about it at all. I can get to one wing, but not the other. I'm pretty sure he'd take a hunk out of me if I persisted past a certain point. But this is a work in progress and he's a little better each time.

Toe Trimming Session

Grainy picture due to low light, but you get the picture. All of the Greenwing flapping is a game and exercize - he really doesn't mind at all, even when I clip one toe a little short and have to go get the quik-stop to stop the bleeding. After it stops, the trim continues like before.

Jazzy enjoying a birdbath.

He did this for half an hour. Sugimac, the Greenwing, was having none of it but was watching attentively off-camera.

Our two Macaws taking a morning shower.

The Greenwing mostly moves to the center of the water stream and hunkers down to enjoy a shower massage. The Blue & Gold doesn't usually care this much for showers, but occasionally, like now, really gets into the spirit of WATER!!!

A Shower in the Aviary.

There's a sprinkler irrigation head attached to the fence that sprays into the aviary and set to cover about half of it so that they can move where there's no water if either doesn't feel like getting wet. No chance of that! They are all over the cage and the Blue & Gold loves to hang on the cage right in front of the water stream.

Playing with Mom in the pool.

All she wants to do is put those rocks on the deck to count her laps in the pool while *I* want them in the pool itself.


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