27th Annual Ann Arbor Exotic Bird Exposition

Hello everyone. We wanted to let you know that the annual Ann Arbor Exotic Bird Exposition is approaching quickly and lasts from 10am to 3pm on Sunday, August 5th, 2012. This year will be held in a new location in close proximity to the previous location. 

Lara Joseph will be speaking at 11:30 on Taking The Problem Out of Parrot Behavior. There are several vendors with bird toys, bird food, cages, unique perches, floor stands, and more. For more information click on the link. Hope to see you there! 27th Annual Ann Arbor Exotic Bird Exposition

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July Meeting

Our next Parrot Society of NW Ohio meeting will be tonight. It was suggested that we get together for dinner and enjoy the summer on a patio. We will be meeting at Shorty’s BBQ at 5111 Monroe Street Toledo, Ohio 43623. We have a patio table reserved and if you would like to meet early there will be several people meeting at 5:30. If you can not make it that early, still join us. We won’t be ordering dinner until after our regular meeting time of 6:15. 

Bring your ideas, questions, and topics. We will discuss anything parrot while eating dinner. We hope to see you tonight.

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Happy 2nd Anniversary Parrot Society of NW Ohio

Join us for our 2nd year Anniversary celebration!

Our next meeting, which will be Monday, February 13th, 2012 will be The Parrot Society of NW Ohio’s 2nd year anniversary. We are an organization that is free to the public that focuses on providing an educational outlet to all companion parrot owners. Our mission statement is:

The Parrot Society of NW Ohio is dedicated to providing a resource for the most recent information and education in parrot behavior and welfare. We strive to create and maintain a happy and healthy environment for the parrot, and all of those involved with its care and livelihood, through positive reinforcement interactions. We support the advancement of aviculture through educational outreach in companion parrot welfare, avian research, and conservation.

We have another year full of speakers, field excursions, and topics of interest and importance. Join us for our next meeting. Our meetings begin at 6:15 and last until 8:15 pm the second Monday of every month. Our monthly meeting locations change based on the topic of the meeting. Our next meeting we will be joined by Dr. Susan Orosz DVM, Dipl ABVP (Avian), Dipl ECZM (Avain). Dr. Orosz is the owner of The Bird & Exotic Pet Wellness Center in Toledo, Ohio. Dr. Orosz will be giving a talk starting at 6:30pm on Avian Diseases. Please feel free to join us. Our meetings are free and open to the public. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a response.

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Christmas/Holiday Party 2011

The Parrot Society of NW Ohio just had their 2nd annual Christmas/Holiday Party last weekend. Another great turnout and a great time to just mingle and talk.

Our monthly meetings will resume in January of 2012. We have already started planning the monthly topics, field excursions, and speakers. If there is something you would like to suggest, we definitely want to hear from you. Let us know.

In February, The Parrot Society of NW Ohio will be 2 years old. Young, but so much we have done in helping the avian community. Thank you to all of the faithful members, followers, and supporters. Even if you can’t attend the meetings, we love hearing from you on our blog, e-mails, and Facebook page.

Happy Holidays everyone!

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November’s Meeting

Our next meeting will be held at Petco on Monroe Street. With winter quickly approaching, this causes us to be a little more creative with creating enrichment for our birds. Our topic will be “Enrichment, Thinking Outside the Box”. Come and join us on Monday, November 14th at 6:15pm. We will talk about different forms of enrichment and how they work in modifying behavior issues. We’ll walk the isles of Petco sharing examples of how other forms of enrichment can be safely used with our birds.

Our last meeting we trained a few quakers that are currently at Petco. Hopefully some of the training techniques shared have shown to be useful in your home.

At our last meeting we also announced that Mary Hitchcock has taken the position as our events coordinator. She will be scheduling upcoming topics, meetings, and organizing our field excursions for 2012. Please touch base with her if you have ideas.

Our December meeting will be the last one of the year. We are planning to do the same thing this year as we did last year. Our meeting will be replaced by a Christmas/Holiday dinner. Mary has sent out an e-mail in regards to voting on where we would like to meet this year. If you haven’t responded to Mary’s e-mail yet about where you would like to meet for dinner, please do so. We will be counting up the votes within the next week.

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August Meeting

Just a quick reminder that the August Parrot Society meeting will be held next Monday, August 15th at 6:15pm at the Sanger Branch Library. We do normally try to schedule the meetings to be the 2nd Monday of the month, but the rooms were already booked for the 2nd Monday. See you next Monday!

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June meeting – new location!

We have been working behind the scenes to try out a new location for the Parrot Society meetings. We are pleased to announce that June’s meeting will be held on Monday, June 13th at the Sylvania Vet on Holland-Sylvania Rd (please see the sidebar on the right for the exact address). The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm and will still be about 2 hours long. We will be updating our facebook and twitter pages with this new location information for the month of June, and we will be sending out an email to all of our contacts soon. We hope to see some of the new faces that we met at the Ohio Bird Fair in May! We’ll see you soon on June 13th!

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April’s visit to The Ann Arbor Companion Bird Club

Deanna and Nate getting the opportunity to interact with Tanya's palm cockatoo.

What a fantastic meeting this was. It was nice to venture outside of our normal monthly meetings. There was interest in visiting the Ann Arbor Companion Bird Club so we asked them. They discussed it and then invited us to come up and attend their April meeting. So on a warm 80 degree spring day we loaded a few cars full of members of the Parrot Society of NW Ohio and headed to Ann Arbor.

It was neat to see how and where they have their monthly meetings. Their meetings are located on the property of  Animal Kingdom Veterinary Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI. The facility houses many animals and is well worth the trip to visit.

Our meeting started with discussion and snacks. The two groups mingled and got to know each other. Expanding contacts in the avian community is always

Melanie's amazon, Kuhara enjoying the new found foraging foot toy.

 

great. You never know when you may need to contact someone. After the mingling, Lara Joseph was asked to give a presentation on foraging toys, their importance, and samples in making some. Easy “do-it-yourself” foraging toys were handed out among members of both groups and a great time was had not only making them, but having the birds there trying them. The proof is in the pudding. Just look at Kuhara eagerly tearing into her’s here. The importance of foraging, the effects on behavior in the wild and in captivity were discussed.

Everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves. Thank you AACBC for giving us the opportunity to visit.

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Ann Arbor Companion Bird Club

Our trip to the Ann Arbor Companion Bird club is today. We asked and they also invited us up to attend a meeting. We are excited about going and we will be discussing foraging and foraging toys.

This trip to their meeting is taking place of April’s meeting for the Parrot Society of NW Ohio.

Our next adventure is to get together and for the movie Rio, which opens next weekend, April 15th. We may need some volunteers for the opening next weekend. We’ll post more this week. In the last meeting we discussed getting together for this movie and lunch or dinner. The opening weekend didn’t seem to work out for a few so we discussed getting together the following weekend of the 22nd – 24th. If you would like to go, send us an e-mail.

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Happy 1 Year Anniversary Parrot Society of NW Ohio!

Next week, February 14th will be our 1 year anniversary for the Parrot Society of NW Ohio! We can’t believe it has been a year already. Our monthly meetings are filled with faithful members, a few members that show up when they can, and a couple of newbies sprinkled in between.

Our monthly meetings are educational and focus on topics to help keep the homes of parrots healthy, enriched, and ever learning together with parrots and people. Our mission is to keep the bird in the home, aiding the next home with the tools for success,  and providing the education to keep that environment stimulating and happy for all. Our mission statement is: The Parrot Society of NW Ohio is dedicated to providing a resource for the most recent information and education in parrot behavior and welfare. We strive to create and maintain a happy and healthy environment for the parrot, and all of those involved with its care and livelihood, through positive reinforcement interactions. We support the advancement of aviculture through educational outreach in companion parrot welfare, avian research, and conservation.

Thank you to all involved over the past year for making and continuing to make the Parrot Society of NW Ohio what it is today. Our next meeting is Monday, February 14th, beginning at 6:15 at the Sanger Branch Library on Central Avenue. Several people are brining snacks and pop. Light refreshments are allowed at the library. If you would like to bring something, please feel free to but also let us know so we can help prevent too much food from being brought.

If you would like to stop in and help us celebrate, please feel free to do so. During the first hour we will be mingling, talking, and eating. The second hour we will proceed to discuss the topic we had intended on discussing last month. The topic will be “Observing, understanding, and working with sexual behaviors of our companion parrots.”

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