he term peafowl can refer to the two species of bird in the genus Pavo of the pheasant family, Phasianidae. The African Congo Peafowl is placed in its own genus Afropavo and is not dealt with here. Peafowl are best known for the male's extravagant tail, which it displays as part of courtship. The male is called a peacock, the female a peahen[1], though it is common to hear the female also referred to as a "peacock" or "female peacock". The female peafowl is brown or toned grey and brown.....

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I've had Rainbow Lorikeets for a few years now, and I'm currently handraising my original birds babies.
They are great pets, although yes they live up to their reputation of being messy, but you can potty train them fairly easily.

They are very easy to train using Clicker Training.
To learn "clicker training for birds" for free, go to
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Bird-Click/

i am getting a handraised lorikeet for christmas. does anyone know whether it is safe to put lorikeets and budgies together?

Rainbow Lorikeets are really easy to train using Clicker Training.

I have 6 rainbows and they are all trained, even though my first one was a wild bird when I first got her, and would bite and scream and do everything naughty, now she is the sweetest bird you could ever meet.

Go to this site to learn how;

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Bird-Click/

hi i have a 5 week old lorikeet was just wondering if anyone knows how to tell if they r male or female i heard the only way is a dna

Hi,

I recently bought two rainbow lorikeets hand reared (born approx oct/nov 07), they have been with us a week now and one really hasn't taken to us at all(Charlie)!! It comes out of the cage after the other one (Mardi) Mardi loves messing about - seeing the food will walk up to it sometimes our arm to sit on our shoulders and pulls at our hair. Generally curious and social. I have given him a cat bell/ball. Charlie though, since we got him seemed to have a sneeze. I change their water twice a day clean out their wet mix after they've eaten it or left it for a while. Have dry mix for them all the other times & a bathing bowl I clean twice a day too.

Charlie isn't the strongest at flying yet either but doesn't like to come onto us and is kinda afraid (not shaking or anything just reluctant and shy), so this makes it difficult once he's out. Sometimes they suddenly just like to fly accross the room then that's it Charlie usually runs out of steam then falls, it's concerning to watch, should i make some perch's around the house for them???

Can anyone give some real effective tips to how i can create more trust get them to come on command or into cage and not be afraid of me helping them