Games to Play with Your Bird (2024)

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Games to Play with Your Bird? ›

Games such as "birdie basketball", peek-a-boo and fetch may take a bit of practice, but once your bird learns how to play, these can be lots of fun for both of you.

Games such as "birdie basketball", peek-a-boo and fetch may take a bit of practice, but once your bird learns how to play, these can be lots of fun for both of you.

Play Music or Videos

Birds are naturally interested in different sounds and noises, so leaving a radio or television helps to keep them happy and comfortable while they are spending time in their cages.

Fetch and Retrieve

Some parrots will play fetch in a similar fashion to dogs. To play, gently toss a small Koosh ball, bauble or a soft, lightweight toy in the direction of your parrot, and say, “Catch it!” If you're lucky, your bird will run after the object and pick it up with its beak.

Birds want to feel like part of the family, including conversations. Spend some extra time talking to your bird, even when he's in his cage. If you are home and can check off any to-do items in the room where your bird lives, try doing these activitiesaround him and talking a bit as you go.

Here are the steps to properly and safely petting your pet bird: Don't pet your bird anywhere below their neck, and only pet them gently on their head. Even if a bird's sexual organs aren't located in the areas of their back and beneath their wings, most birds still prefer being pet on the head and neck.

Some forms of play, called “locomotor play,” seem quite similar to the exhilarating play of children sledding down a steep hill. Some ducks have been observed floating through tidal rapids or fast-moving sections of rivers, and when they've reached the end, hurrying back to the beginning to ride over and over.

Even just showing your hands in front of your bird is a beneficial step to continue to practice and will get the bird comfortable with your hands. While a good cuddle might be nice for you and your bird, it is a good idea to avoid excessive petting and to avoid petting the back and body of your bird.

Playing interactive games with your bird. Introducing new foods in new ways. Training birds to learn new words, phrases and songs. Talking to your birds in context.

Some birds are afraid to be left alone. For these birds leaving some kind of noise, even if it's quiet noise in the room when you're out, can be comforting. I'm a big fan of television. I like to leave something on TV so my bird can watch something and hear sound.

What do birds like to play with? ›

Stainless steel, natural non-toxic wood, rope, and acrylic make great materials for toys. Indestructible toys go against a bird's nature and are boring. Birds love to destroy things. Appropriate chewable objects include untreated wood blocks, branches, pinecones, rawhide, natural fiber rope, cloth, and soft pine.

Since the first time we visited the parrot shelter run by ARGE Papageienschutz we've known: parrots enjoy listening to music.

Most Parrots prefer to have only the feathers on their head touched. And get this…they want you to stroke towards the beak, not the tail.

It's fine for them to be alone and stay in the cage for two weeks, but you need someone to come in twice a day, ideally. Twice a week isn't going to work. If they soil their water, they can get a bacterial infection because bacterial growth can start in just a few hours if the water is very dirty.

And never let your bird sleep with you. There have been countless tragedies where a bird gets crushed or smothered by the owner during the night. You can have perches at various heights in the cage.

It is important that birds have toys to play, explore and interact with. However, not all toys sold for pet birds are safe. The safest toys to use include hard plastics, untreated wood and paper, and native branches and flowers.

Gift wrap tissue in bright colors is a fun choice, while coffee filters or cupcake liners are also great options. Stack the papers, crinkle them into a ball or stuff them into paper tubes or cones for different toy styles.

Many birds love to dance to music especially when their companion is singing and dancing to the music. We hold our birds on our hands and dance gently and before long they are bobbing and swaying right along with the beat. Wing flapping is a great way to get your bird some aerobic exercise.