Ahhhhh! Soo flipping cute. <3 I love birds so much. I have 2 parrotlets and a budgie.

Aaw, parrotlets are adorable! I can't tell you how often I've watched p'let videos on Youtube :} And budgies are SO SMART x_x Nobody gives them the credit they deserve. I love cobalts/mauves.
I'm so tempted to get a budgie to be honest, but Luen's really jealous... So I really shouldn't.

I am currently searching for a hand tame male to go with my existing budgie. He's great but really needs company.

And parrotlets are like tiny amazons. <3

o.o its pink....the bird is pink....i love it!

Yep - he's my pretty pink chicken! ^^

Oh my goodness! What a lovely gentleman!

He has fluffy little cheeks - when he puffs up his feathers there it nearly covers his beak and he looks almost... Victorian? It's difficult to describe.

http://www.thedandy.org/mustaches_0070.jpg

This isn't QUITE it... But I don't seem to have a proper photo of it uploaded.
Maybe I should go upstairs and sit their until he does it again haha.

Either way, he's gorgeous. :)

Aaw, why thank you very much ♥

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4768850/

my little male cockatiel, max does that when he's pouting. he saw my brother puffing out his cheeks when he pouted and somehow max got the idea to copy him XD

I loveee how pink he is. ;3;
I want to own a macaw someday when I have a stable job and place so I can look after it proper. <3

Good plan waiting until you're stable :} Too many parrots are rehomed because owners didn't realise just how much time they take to keep. I really hope you can get one though! Hyacinths amuse me - they're so goofy looking ♥

I would love to have a bird again one day - would love to adopt one.

Good!
I really really support adoption/rescue. Luen was a rescue. Breeding is fine, I suppose, but there's already so many birds waiting for homes...
The average cockatoo goes through eight homes in their lifetime :C

Er, average PET cockatoo.

That's adorable! My joe isn't that friendly, but that's probably because of his previous owners.

Aaw, very sorry to hear that. Luen had a terrible previous owner too, but he was so young when we rescued him that he still had baby naivety and warmed rather quickly to me.
I really wish you all the best with Joe ♥

Thank you~ I'll take some picture of the smug dude and post them sometime soon.

Awesome! Is he a galah/rb2 too?
I really love seeing other people's pets ♥

naw, he's a blue Macaw.
Well, you don't say!

This is a pic of my dog Molli. I can see if I can get some pictures of Benji, my snake and Iroh my baby bearded dragon up sometime soon~

Ah - 'nother macaw! I think thewonderhorse has a B&G macaw!
You didn't link to a pic xD But bearded dragons are cute :}

wow, he's so beautiful! i didn't even know they could come in these colors. o_o so prettyyyy <3

Yeah - the only pink bird most people seem to know of is the flamingo! But rosa bourkes, major mitchells/leadbeater cockatoos and rose-breasted cockatoos can be really amazing shades, and moluccan cockatoos are a lovely pale salmon... There's more than that of course, but those are just some others that come to mind.

I always thought it was a diet thing because of flamingos. That's interesting though, I should learn about more pink birds since it's my favourite color and I love birds.

It is - but it doesn't have to be for all birds! I THINK you can give food high in carotenoids such as cherries, tomatoes and beets to enhance the colour in some birds though.
Luen's actually a western variant galah though, the eastern variant is a much brighter raspberry colour.

This is pretty cute! How many pet birds have you had over the years?

Luen is my first companion bird, though I have cared for injured/orphaned/ill wild birds before.

HFGEIYEHDFEGSHJAKAFDGJFHGSHJ!!!!!!!!!!!

BARD! CUTE BARD!

Needit. Wantit.

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Birds give me cute attacks D: I apologize for...the previous...word makings...guh. *dies*

Hahaha, no it's perfectly okay, but I suppose I shouldn't try and get a video of him talking... It may kill you with cute!
He's been calling me 'Muchi' a lot lately - copying my boyfriend, but in Luen's own cute little baby voice.

*gasp* D:

I need. Show to me this video. I will have a heart attack of pure cute bliss. It will be wonderful.

HURGH!

I used to have a budgie and the only words he knew were "bird" and "birdie" but he would say them over and over. He would say them in a really low tone because he learned them from my dad (who had a low voice). He'd be all like 'tweet tweedle chirp chirp birdie bird biiiiird tweet twirdle!'

Now I have a Meyer's that says: Hi, Hey, Hello, Wha'cha doin', Pretty bird, Pretty boy etc...

Hmmn... well Luen's favourite word is 'chicken' and was the first word he learned. My brother and I kept calling him a pretty chicken, or a silly chicken, or a pink chicken... xD
Now he says chicken, muchi, muchicken, scritch?, huh?, Jaaaack, woot! and makes a sound like a toddler having a tantrum when he doesn't get his way. He seems to be practicing a new word with an 'oo' noise...
I'll go try and film him now xD

Eeeeeh yes!

Every time I try to film Disco he shuts up and just stares at me. All the videos are just me chatting at him trying to get him to make noise lol. He's also hard to record because he mumbles.

Yeah - I'm going to have to set up the camera to film him, then leave the room.
Haven't done it yet though, keep replying to comments/IMs lol.

Haha, well whenever you get around to it send me the link :D

Just filmed it - he only really said 'chicken' - transferring to my laptop now.

If you can see this, yay!:
http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b.....=Video0014.mp4

D'awwww chicken bird!!! Hahahahahaha! I had a glee attack!

He must love scritchings from daddy :B

Not really, he bites my boyfriend (not... really daddy) lol. But I'm female, and he loves scritches from me :}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvT0KtQcoZU xD Just uh.. around 30 seconds in LOL

Heeee zomgs so cute! ^___________^

He is going to kill you with pink feathery soft cuteness.

Or maybe his galah sonic attack, reducing my organs to mush with one screech.

'too puffcheeks ALWAYS GET ME omfg so adorable.

I want to cuddle him forever ;_;

He has such a sweet happyface, you have a lovely birdy.

Aaw, thank you ^^ He often looks really stupidly happy. I've seen 'toos that look grumpy... but I've never seen Luen look grumpy, even when I know he is xD

Maybe it's the pink. It hides the grump factor so well.

whats he like as a pet? :0
i would never have the time for a parrot so im fine appreciating other peoples beautiful birds. XD

Well, for gripes about caring for 'toos in general, I actually have a journal here: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1006866/

As for Luen - for the most part he's very sweet, if loud. He needs to be taken out of the cage for several hours a day. About an hour into that he becomes rather aggressive. While he's aggressive I avoid touching him, and if he lands on me I move him off. As prey animals they don't really respond to punishment, and it takes a lot of patience to just wait for him to stop biting and reward when he calms down. In the picture above, bottom left, you can see a bite mark on my hand that may scar. Once he calms down, he usually stays calm.
He's very intelligent, but is like a small child in that he has a lousy attention span. If you don't make learning fun for him, he won't bother. Like he has a hyperactivity disorder.
He's very playful. Actually, here's a video of him playing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFsThx8W_4s
At the time of the video, he was about seven months old.

Sorry, this got long fast. Anything in particular you were wondering about though? I love talking about the silly pink chicken :B

Gorgeous burd and btw...your accent is wonderful. X)

Aaw, thank you :} He is quite pretty ♥
I think I sound like a moron, but thank you anyway ^^;

Moron!? Not at all :D

There was a Galah at a nearby parrot rescue here in Wisconsin, USA, and I so badly wanted to take him home. He would make baby noises whenever anyone would pet him, even though he was six years old. It was adorable, but I worried it could have also been a sign of distress or anxiety....since he was also a bit of a feather chewer.

He's since found a home, and I think about him now and then.

Huh - wouldn't be too unusual if the reason he was in the rescue was because the old owner had a baby and no longer had time for him, unfortunately :C

Shame to hear he was a feather chewer... they have so much emotion and they feel everything really strongly. I really hope his new home is making him a lot happier, though I'm a little sad that it wasn't with you. Maybe some day you can rescue another 'too!

They're wonderful birds to keep if you don't rip your hair out at the thought of all the work they are xD It's like.. a birdy genius with a mischievous sense of humour. Everything he does is for fun and it's a really upbeat and cheery personality to have around :}

So adorable!!! One day I too will have a parrot! For now, I have a Cockatiel.

xD Cockatiels are parrots!
They were recently re-classed as the world's smallest cockatoos :} Rather closely related to my Luen here.
I hope you can get more parrots though!

Cockatiels are indeed parrots--and fantastic ones at that! :D I have two of them, and I love them to birdy bits. (Even though one is a whiteface mutation and may have been the victim of inbreeding...he's a bit 'slow' compared to his wild-form counterpart.)

Omg, Muchi...have you seen the cockatiel/galah hybrid? It's SO amazingly adorable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Va82B64ow

Yes! The galatiel is adorableeee. Though I do sort of worry about genetic problems from breeding across species... There have been complications with macaw hybrids in the past.
That said, galahs breed/hybridise far too readily with other cockatoos. I've seen galah/cockatiel, galah/sulphur-crested, gala/corella (bare-eyed cockatoo)... I think someone told me they could even cross with gang-gangs but I've never read any evidence of that. One of the galah hybrids is called an 'apricot' galah, it's an amazing peachy colour but I always feel so bad for them. 'Toos stress about physical irregularities as it is without us intentionally breeding them to look different :c

Yeah, I hear you... from a curiosity and artist's/bird-watcher's excitable standpoint I like seeing genetics at work...the possibilities of variation. But that's just my selfish ape brain.

From a welfare standpoint I completely agree with you. While parrots interbreed occasionally in the wild, it's nothing nearly the same as breeders intentionally cultivating hybrids. I don't feel so bad about the galatiel, since it seems to be an isolated incident (for now,) but I did just see a corella/galah cross in a youtube vid this evening for sale at a pet store.

Ugh, now I'm sad again.

Oh I agree - the fact they CAN hybridise is amazing and fascinating! And some of the combinations are really beautiful, which is actually unfortunate. A local store here regularly buys galah/corella chicks from a breeder who specialises in that hybrid. To their credit, the one I met at the store had a wonderful temperament, but I hear they're unpredictable.

Don't be sad! Look how happy Luen is xD He makes EVERYTHING BETTER just be existing!

I never knew Cockatiels were considered parrots and I've had mine for 15 years now! I feel silly D: I love him to death though even if he poops everywhere.

And OMG, that video. That is incredible and ridiculously adorable.

man, that is a PRETTY bird.

Well, HE certainly thinks so!
Many an hour is spent on preening :}

Heheheh xD
I went through a bird phase for a while.
I got to babysit this little lovebird named Ishi for a week, and I just fell in love.
He'd sit on my bowl and eat cheerios with me every morning, and bobbed up and down whenever I asked him something.
He was such a sweetie.
<3

The second pic is like "OI! GET THAT FINGER BACK HERE"

But anyway he is very beautiful and I have to be honest, I can't remember the last time I ever saw a pink bird.

Aaw, thank you.
And there's a few pink species, but they're not very common. I listed a few above somewhere, and I think three of those were aussie species... Major Mitchells, galahs and rosa bourkes...

He is cute and an evil destroyer of peanuts

He also takes time out of his busy schedule to destroy fingers with peanut oil on them :}

D'awwww, scritchies!
You know, when you get enough confidence from a budgie so it lets you scritch its head, it fluffs up in happiness. :3
Lovely bird you got there. <3

Yeah - it's really cute, especially when english budgies do it :> We sometimes refer to Luen's puffed up cheeks as his 'budgie face'.
And thank you ^^

In that case Sweety (the english grey-green in my page) is the Master of Fluff. He gets like twice his size O.O

I love rose breasted cockatoos, I swear they are just the softest birds ever.

Haha, well he is pretty fluffy. The beak/claws are particularly soft though... Little monster keeps sharpening them just to spite me I swear.