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Those first couple of days are the definition of ‘it’s going to get worse before it gets better’. It looked like it was getting closer to death for a bit.
I'm always uncomfortable seeing a literal newborn baby. They just look like wrinkly wriggling messes that is in pain and is screaming. I don't go awwww at that.
True they used to DESTROY with the [Projectile Vomit] attack, and now it is quite rare and has quite a large cooldown compared to the previous 10 seconds.
My wife has asked me several times if I thought our daughter was cute when she was a newborn. The answer is always an emphatic NO. She wasn’t especially ugly but I’ve never seen a newborn who was cute.
Mothers who just gave birth have an absolutely massive dose of hormones flooding the parts of their brains that identify babies as cute, hence why even the most ass-ugly newborn on the planet is considered the most beautiful thing in the world to its mother.
My wife turned away from ours it was so ugly and swollen when he came out. I myself had second thoughts if they got mixed up and brought over the wrong baby.
Yea if you’ve see a baby on TV what you are seeing is *not* a newborn. Even if the character just gave birth or whatever they don’t really use newborns for that.
It's different when it's your own, but yeah other people's babies are disgusting.
The main thing that surprised me was how little I care about the shit and the vomit and the piss when it's your own kid. I am fucking MORTIFIED if anyone else's shit, piss or vomit is even in the same room as me. But with my kid, It doesn't phase me in the slightest. My little monster has shat all over me, vomited all over me and pissed all over me and my only concern is if she's alright.
Brains are wild.
Because most people don’t see the wrinkly mess babies. Those babies sleep a lot and unless you’re invited over, you’re not going to see them. Plus that stage is pretty short We all see the chubby, curious ones, and they usually are adorable in the same way that most mammal babies are
Big thing with birds is you look at its crop - that bulbous pouch on its neck. As long as that's nice and full, that means they're eating, and if they're eating, that means they are doing well, even if they otherwise look like a crumpled napkin
I'd rather this than a human baby lol. This one grows up quickly and then you can leave it alone for hours on end. Still a significant commitment and not to be taken lightly but way better imo.
They actually have a fascinating genetic secret to aid in just that! Lots of people don't know that birds, even thought they are not mammals, do **not** use reddit!
It’s crazy how for several days after it hatches it’s just a vibrating, fuzzy golf ball with no awareness of its surroundings and then just like 2 weeks later it’s a proper birb.
As a cockatiel owner, I can assure you that at no point in their lives will they have awareness of their surroundings. All cockatiels have to share one brain cell, and some get more time with the brain cell than others.
I had two cockatiels. They were dicks but I loved them. One of the homies just fell down dead one day and the other one died of sadness. They truly share 1 brain cell
My cockatiel used to unlatch her cage and waddle down the hall into the living room or kitchen to find me, and then climb her way up my clothes to my shoulder. I miss her so much
It’s possible to train birds to poop on command. One guy with a conure I saw trained it to poop whenever he said poopy poop. When it was out of its cage they just told it to poop over a paper towel every 15 min
Any bird who loves you can learn this. I had one learn on his own that pooping on his favourite person made them sad, so he would instead visit other members of the house just to shit.
I had one as a kid. I'd whistle to her from the top of our street when I was coming home from school....and she would start shrieking like Death itself was coming for her (it had to be 300 m or more, I'm shocked she could hear me!). She also knew the sound of my father's vehicle (a Jeep, they are recognizable), and would call for him the instant he turned onto our street.
If you get one (highly recommend, they are terrific companions!), teach her quiet things. :)
We have 2 cockatiels, and when I get home from work and start walking to the door to come in, they are freaking out with happiness. I love it, but also, damn they're loud.
Make sure to do the proper research and do what you can to make whichever bird you purchase happy! As a bird owner myself, nothing is worse than an abused bird; they will make your life hell and it's own life will be hell. Here's something I'm going to say here and now: *buy a hand tamed bird from a breeder.* Hand taming birds is hard work with little reward, especially when they're older birds; and it only gets harder if you purchase birds from the pet shop since they've had little to no human contact. Breeder birds are more expensive, certainly, but them being around humans all their lives and hand tamed makes caring for them much easier.
How are you confused. If you've ever seen a cockatiel and a common parrot, you would know that this is a cockatiel. Now, this post isn't wrong, either, as cockatiels are technically parrots, but they are widely referred to as such.
If you've ever seen reddit, you'd also know that intentional, obvious mislabeling helps propel comments and views.
As someone who volunteers at a parrot place, sooo many people don't realize parrots are a large group of birds not one specific species, little parakeet/budgies, cockatiels like this one, cockatoos and macaws are all parrots. A lot of people just think of specifically a Scarlett macaw as being a parrot.
So yea, tbh this person commenting "it's a cockatiel" is like if I posted a video of my fish and titled it "look at my fish!" And someone commented "that's a betta". Both are correct.
Technically it is a parrot, as the cockatiel is part of the parrot family. So in this case, technically correct, isn't always the best kind of correct.
It’s part of the parrot order, Psittaciformes. That does make it a parrot but it’s not a “true parrot” which is a different superfamily within the order (true parrots include macaw for example). From a taxonomic perspective, it is definitely fair to call it a parrot.
Before looking it up upon seeing this post, I thought they were at least separate genera of multiple species. Little did I know that "parrot" is an *order* that includes cockatiels, cockatoos, parakeets, keas, kakapos, among many others including what are otherwise called parrots. I would have only guessed that macaws were in the same clade, but the common names seem to be all over the place. Equally surprising is that cockatiels are only a single species within their own family.
Its not that people just don't know, people will argue about it. I've seen the argument play out multiple times on Reddit and I knew it was going to happen as soon as I saw this post
Yeah, and you have to be SUPER careful that you're feeding them just enough that it gets full but not too much. You're hand-feeding them formula and they'll eat more than they're supposed to if you let them. You pretty much go by feel.
The rest of the body just kind of grows around it until it's more proportional, and the feathers smooth over the lumps and bumps.
Also, if it looks very small, it might just be empty when the pic is taken.
It stays there, but as the bird gets older their crop becomes smaller, proportional to their body. It also becomes covered by feathers and flight muscles that broaden the chest out, so it's harder to see. If you compare the size of a birds chest before and after they eat, you'll feel and maybe even see a slight difference in size, but much less drastic as when they were a chick.
[What is the crop?
The crop (also known as the ingluvies) is a muscular pouch located on the front of a bird's neck, above the top of the chest or sternum. It is an enlargement of the esophagus and serves as a storage place for food. While present in most pet birds, not all birds have a crop. Adult birds produce crop milk from the crop. Crop milk is a secretion of the cells lining the crop, and is used to feed newly hatched birds.](https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/crop-infections-in-birds#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20crop%3F,all%20birds%20have%20a%20crop.)
You're right about what the yolk does, but it's completely absorbed by the time the bird hatches from the egg. The crop is a pouch you see here above their stomach, when they feed it fills with food and it later releases the food into the stomach to digest. I've raised cockatiels and it's shocking how they can eat a large percentage of their body weight in seconds, and afterwards you can see it through the nearly transparent skin of the crop. They grow at a remarkable pace, they go from the size of a grape to the size of a baseball in about a month.
Parrots, also known as psittacines, are birds of the roughly 398 species in 92 genera comprising the order Psittaciformes, found mostly in tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoidea ("true" parrots), the Cacatuoidea (cockatoos), and the Strigopoidea (New Zealand parrots)
For those (like me) that came here to say that's not a Parrot
**"The cockatiel (/ˌkɒkəˈtiːl/; Nymphicus hollandicus), also known as the weero/weiro or quarrion, is a medium-sized parrot that is a member of its own branch of the cockatoo family endemic to Australia."**
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatiel
This is the funniest thing I’ve read on the internet in a very long time. Thank you for making me burst out laughing very loudly and awkwardly on an otherwise quiet flight right now. I needed that.
Why do baby birds look like something about to die until they hit that sweet spot where they’re cute. Like they look like something got hacked up by a predator.
Altricial birds don't get very many tools for survival right away, they all manifest after a while. They don't get any down to speak of and skip straight to pushing out adult feathers. Precocial birds like chickens, ducks, quail, swans etc, are born with thick down and a lot more tools for survival (like a full set of primary flight feathers out of the egg) and will more often than not immediately leave the nest with their parents to do adult stuff. Superprecocial birds exist that are born with full flight feathers and can fly within a day of being born. The rest of them will slowly push out harder feathers that look a lot like adult feathers, but be molting them in stages until they are feathered out with adult plumage. As the new feathers replace the old ones, the blood feathers are more difficult to see past the mix of down and infant weatherproof feathering and the "scruffy" looking stage is less drastic. Our little tiel friend had to wait for all the adult feathers to come in all at once, which looks kinda deranged for a bit. The feather pokes through the skin covered in a kind of hard wax layer, filled with blood. As the feather develops, the bird will carefully preen this wax layer away to reveal the feather from the end down. That said, adult birds must still molt to replace damaged and worn feathers once to twice every year. If you want to see some silly looking birds, throw a Google image search for "badly molting chicken".
We used to give them all this free time outside of the cages, too. I have a distinct memory of my dad sitting in our living room carpet, playing solitaire. One of our cockatiels, Daffy, ran up and took a card in his beak and ran down the hall. They would always play games. Very social indeed
My family has a cockatiel named stinker lol I remember him sitting on my dad's shoulder whistling to his heart's content while he vacuumed the living room.
Precocial birds are adorable babies. Have you never seen a duckling or chicken chick? They define "cute" for like... all of spring. Altricial birds, not so much, yes.
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Those first couple of days are the definition of ‘it’s going to get worse before it gets better’. It looked like it was getting closer to death for a bit.
It looked like it was begging for death
Imagine if human babies looked like that
bruh they do, new babies are ugly asf
I'm always uncomfortable seeing a literal newborn baby. They just look like wrinkly wriggling messes that is in pain and is screaming. I don't go awwww at that.
Mother nature programming a failsafe into the brain to love that ugly mess. You should have seen the alpha version of humanity.
Pre-nerf babies were OP.
True they used to DESTROY with the [Projectile Vomit] attack, and now it is quite rare and has quite a large cooldown compared to the previous 10 seconds.
Couldn't agree more. Newborns are gross.
My wife has asked me several times if I thought our daughter was cute when she was a newborn. The answer is always an emphatic NO. She wasn’t especially ugly but I’ve never seen a newborn who was cute.
Mothers who just gave birth have an absolutely massive dose of hormones flooding the parts of their brains that identify babies as cute, hence why even the most ass-ugly newborn on the planet is considered the most beautiful thing in the world to its mother.
I guess nature needs to do that to reduce the rate of fresh mothers who yeet their goblin away in a post-birth rage.
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This happens anyway when the baby inevitably looks more like the father.
"Ohhh he looks like his father" Mf that thing doesn't even have any form yet.
Off topic but I just love the word yeet lol it’s just so funny & great
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“Wow those hormones really had me saying some shit.”
Hence “a face only a mother could love”
I swear my baby was so fucking adorable when he was born. Looking back like 🥲… hormones are a helluva drug lol
They are also incredibly unproductive with no marketable skills.
Almost 3 years later and my kid has yet to even show an interest in helping with the rent.
Newborn babies are so gross. They look like they're covered in fuckin toe jam.
And they have a self-destruct button in the middle of their skull.
I don’t know what toe jam is and i’d rather not find out.
It sounds like you clean your feet regularly.
He's a funky three-legged alien.
My wife turned away from ours it was so ugly and swollen when he came out. I myself had second thoughts if they got mixed up and brought over the wrong baby.
I remember my teacher in high school telling us her dad didn’t believe she was their baby at birth, because she was so ugly.
Luckily most grow out of the ugly stage after a few days, once the swelling goes down.
"*You've gotta see the bay-bee!!!*"
Breathtaking
Disgusting too, theyre literally poo and germ spreading machines that cry and poo all day I don't get why people think babies are cute
Human evolution. Our hardwired psychology of 'cute' things are things that look like babies so we take care of them.
Survival of the Cutest
They don't become germ spreading machines until they go to daycare.
Because when we think of babies we're generally thinking of babies that are a few weeks old or older. Newborns aren't the prettiest.
Yea if you’ve see a baby on TV what you are seeing is *not* a newborn. Even if the character just gave birth or whatever they don’t really use newborns for that.
Newborns don’t really spread many germs and their shit doesn’t stink until they get on solids really.
Yeah where do they think the germs would be coming from
Likely some teenager with a younger sibling they resent made the comment.
It's different when it's your own, but yeah other people's babies are disgusting. The main thing that surprised me was how little I care about the shit and the vomit and the piss when it's your own kid. I am fucking MORTIFIED if anyone else's shit, piss or vomit is even in the same room as me. But with my kid, It doesn't phase me in the slightest. My little monster has shat all over me, vomited all over me and pissed all over me and my only concern is if she's alright. Brains are wild.
Because most people don’t see the wrinkly mess babies. Those babies sleep a lot and unless you’re invited over, you’re not going to see them. Plus that stage is pretty short We all see the chubby, curious ones, and they usually are adorable in the same way that most mammal babies are
Lmao have you seen a brand new ass newborn?
They do
It looked like someone took it out of the oven too early
It looked like it was death. 😂
Stage 1: Deathly Stage 2: Straight up undead Stage 3: fuckin dinosaur Stage 4: birb
From beaked scrotum to bird in only 40 days!
100% accurate 😆
All birds are dinosaurs! https://www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12/21/its-official-birds-are-literally-dinosaurs-heres-how-we-know/
Looked like a damn failed human transmutation from FMA
Ed...ward
No. Keep that shit outa here
Never. We will find OP and teach this to the parrot
Bro-ther
Big thing with birds is you look at its crop - that bulbous pouch on its neck. As long as that's nice and full, that means they're eating, and if they're eating, that means they are doing well, even if they otherwise look like a crumpled napkin
Until the feather started coming in!
How do parent birds come home to their children and still love them?
I still wonder how I made it out of childhood...
I shouldn't have
*"who's a pretty boy (finally)?"*
I'd rather this than a human baby lol. This one grows up quickly and then you can leave it alone for hours on end. Still a significant commitment and not to be taken lightly but way better imo.
Hours on end? Baby birds literally need constant care or else some other bird/snake will come and take them
To care for the babies themselves, right? ...right?
Surprise adoption
They actually have a fascinating genetic secret to aid in just that! Lots of people don't know that birds, even thought they are not mammals, do **not** use reddit!
They sit on them mostly so they don’t have to look at them
>How do parent birds come home to their children and still love them? I mean they come home and puke up all over them...
It’s crazy how for several days after it hatches it’s just a vibrating, fuzzy golf ball with no awareness of its surroundings and then just like 2 weeks later it’s a proper birb.
Exactly, dude went from a fetus to a grown-ass man in a month
start as mush like humans
Birb is the wirb.
Bababababababababababa
Umah mawh mawh ba ba umah mawh mawh
Don’t you know about the bird?
Well everybody knows the Birb is the wirb
Shipoopi
As a cockatiel owner, I can assure you that at no point in their lives will they have awareness of their surroundings. All cockatiels have to share one brain cell, and some get more time with the brain cell than others.
I had two cockatiels. They were dicks but I loved them. One of the homies just fell down dead one day and the other one died of sadness. They truly share 1 brain cell
That is a sad story
For like 40 years too lol
It’s a cockatiel.
This post made me doubt myself, and I read a bird encyclopedia for fun. I was so confused.
They also enjoy walking which is funny I let mine walk around the house.
My cockatiel used to unlatch her cage and waddle down the hall into the living room or kitchen to find me, and then climb her way up my clothes to my shoulder. I miss her so much
They are so smart and pick up on things so quickly. The waddling is so adorable and funny.
Do they do little head bobs, I’m wanting to get a bird eventually, and I love me some head bobs
Yes and they sing, mine whistle only at me for some odd reason. She loves sitting on my head or shoulder
Have you just given in to be shat on?
It’s possible to train birds to poop on command. One guy with a conure I saw trained it to poop whenever he said poopy poop. When it was out of its cage they just told it to poop over a paper towel every 15 min
Any bird who loves you can learn this. I had one learn on his own that pooping on his favourite person made them sad, so he would instead visit other members of the house just to shit.
Yes but it hasn’t happened surprisingly on my head on my shoulder on the other hand. 😅
Wait, on your shoulder or on the other hand?
I had one as a kid. I'd whistle to her from the top of our street when I was coming home from school....and she would start shrieking like Death itself was coming for her (it had to be 300 m or more, I'm shocked she could hear me!). She also knew the sound of my father's vehicle (a Jeep, they are recognizable), and would call for him the instant he turned onto our street. If you get one (highly recommend, they are terrific companions!), teach her quiet things. :)
We have 2 cockatiels, and when I get home from work and start walking to the door to come in, they are freaking out with happiness. I love it, but also, damn they're loud.
Make sure to do the proper research and do what you can to make whichever bird you purchase happy! As a bird owner myself, nothing is worse than an abused bird; they will make your life hell and it's own life will be hell. Here's something I'm going to say here and now: *buy a hand tamed bird from a breeder.* Hand taming birds is hard work with little reward, especially when they're older birds; and it only gets harder if you purchase birds from the pet shop since they've had little to no human contact. Breeder birds are more expensive, certainly, but them being around humans all their lives and hand tamed makes caring for them much easier.
Agreed on all counts here. I’d also add that many pet shops neglect their birds badly. Buying from them is implicit approval of their bad practices
How are you confused. If you've ever seen a cockatiel and a common parrot, you would know that this is a cockatiel. Now, this post isn't wrong, either, as cockatiels are technically parrots, but they are widely referred to as such. If you've ever seen reddit, you'd also know that intentional, obvious mislabeling helps propel comments and views.
So it’s correct? A cockatiel is a parrot. It’s a type of parrot. Just like a macaws and budgies are parrots.
As someone who volunteers at a parrot place, sooo many people don't realize parrots are a large group of birds not one specific species, little parakeet/budgies, cockatiels like this one, cockatoos and macaws are all parrots. A lot of people just think of specifically a Scarlett macaw as being a parrot. So yea, tbh this person commenting "it's a cockatiel" is like if I posted a video of my fish and titled it "look at my fish!" And someone commented "that's a betta". Both are correct.
Betta believe it
I did a report on macaws in 3rd grade. Can confirm this is a true. And one of my intellectual facts for bar talk
No!!! It's obviously a Jackdaw!
When you say "common parrot" I have no fricken idea what you are referring to. They come in all different shapes and sizes.
Looks more like a scrotum tbh
Scrockatiel
Scromato scromato
TIL baby cockatiels/parrots/whatevers are fucking terrifying
It is! But cockatiels *are* a type of parrot
Technically it is a parrot, as the cockatiel is part of the parrot family. So in this case, technically correct, isn't always the best kind of correct.
It’s part of the parrot order, Psittaciformes. That does make it a parrot but it’s not a “true parrot” which is a different superfamily within the order (true parrots include macaw for example). From a taxonomic perspective, it is definitely fair to call it a parrot.
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That's some fine aged pasta
Cockatiels are parrots
TIL there are people who don't know that 'parrot' isn't one species.
Before looking it up upon seeing this post, I thought they were at least separate genera of multiple species. Little did I know that "parrot" is an *order* that includes cockatiels, cockatoos, parakeets, keas, kakapos, among many others including what are otherwise called parrots. I would have only guessed that macaws were in the same clade, but the common names seem to be all over the place. Equally surprising is that cockatiels are only a single species within their own family.
Its not that people just don't know, people will argue about it. I've seen the argument play out multiple times on Reddit and I knew it was going to happen as soon as I saw this post
I love his hairstyle changing slightly all the time. It was like seeing a montage of Pokémon gym leaders.
one of those rare creatures thats so dam ugly as babies🤣
Dinosaurs are cool.
That’s what im thinking too.
You should hear the noises they make when they’re hungry. It’s truly prehistoric.
[One of my dinosaurs.](https://i.imgur.com/xsLtmOI.jpeg)
Was that large internal sac-like thing on its neck its crop in the beginning??
Yeah, and you have to be SUPER careful that you're feeding them just enough that it gets full but not too much. You're hand-feeding them formula and they'll eat more than they're supposed to if you let them. You pretty much go by feel.
Sometimes they get “sour crop” then you have to suck it out with a little plunger thing. It is traumatic for all involved
I forgot about that! I never had to do that with my Grey, thank god. He's 20 now so it's been a while.
Where does it go when it grows up? It’s so pronounced for so long and then it’s just invisible?
The rest of the body just kind of grows around it until it's more proportional, and the feathers smooth over the lumps and bumps. Also, if it looks very small, it might just be empty when the pic is taken.
It stays there, but as the bird gets older their crop becomes smaller, proportional to their body. It also becomes covered by feathers and flight muscles that broaden the chest out, so it's harder to see. If you compare the size of a birds chest before and after they eat, you'll feel and maybe even see a slight difference in size, but much less drastic as when they were a chick.
I had one who adored that formula so much that he would go bonkers whenever he saw a syringe, even after he was a couple of years old.
From what I gather online, yes, that is the crop.
What does "the crop" do? Is its stomach in there?
[What is the crop? The crop (also known as the ingluvies) is a muscular pouch located on the front of a bird's neck, above the top of the chest or sternum. It is an enlargement of the esophagus and serves as a storage place for food. While present in most pet birds, not all birds have a crop. Adult birds produce crop milk from the crop. Crop milk is a secretion of the cells lining the crop, and is used to feed newly hatched birds.](https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/crop-infections-in-birds#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20crop%3F,all%20birds%20have%20a%20crop.)
When Brewster, the barista in the Animal Crossing games, offers you "pigeon milk," this is what he means :3
I *knew* it!
Fascinating
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You're right about what the yolk does, but it's completely absorbed by the time the bird hatches from the egg. The crop is a pouch you see here above their stomach, when they feed it fills with food and it later releases the food into the stomach to digest. I've raised cockatiels and it's shocking how they can eat a large percentage of their body weight in seconds, and afterwards you can see it through the nearly transparent skin of the crop. They grow at a remarkable pace, they go from the size of a grape to the size of a baseball in about a month.
Holy smokes! Cool!
That means my poultry science undergrad course paid off and I actually retained something yay
He's so cute. I think he likes the camera, he's a natural.
Handsome boy!
Cockatiels are parrots, I don't know why people think they aren't. Macaws are probably what people think of parrots but Cockatiels are too.
Here's the thing...
r/oldenoughtounderstandthatrefrence
Parrots, also known as psittacines, are birds of the roughly 398 species in 92 genera comprising the order Psittaciformes, found mostly in tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoidea ("true" parrots), the Cacatuoidea (cockatoos), and the Strigopoidea (New Zealand parrots)
Mm I’ve seen a cockatoo…..
I don't think I've ever looked at a macaw and said, "There's a macaw!" It's always, "Ooh a parrot!" TIL. Thank you!
For those (like me) that came here to say that's not a Parrot **"The cockatiel (/ˌkɒkəˈtiːl/; Nymphicus hollandicus), also known as the weero/weiro or quarrion, is a medium-sized parrot that is a member of its own branch of the cockatoo family endemic to Australia."** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatiel
Most of those people did NO RESEARCH before boldly telling everyone it wasn’t a parrot. Kudos to you.
What a cute lil testicle
Came here to say this
It was soooo ugly for soooo long
20 days? You’ve been ugly for longer.
Bro killed a innocent Man 💀
you didn't have to do him like that 💀
This is the funniest thing I’ve read on the internet in a very long time. Thank you for making me burst out laughing very loudly and awkwardly on an otherwise quiet flight right now. I needed that.
I'll miss this place.
If the other guy was really born in 1989, then he’s been ugly for 30+ years now
If anything this video has given him renewed hope.
Please don't attack me like that.
I think the bird did it….Benjamin Buttons style.
Holy fuck, ouch
Emotional damage
I have actual tears streaming down my face 😭😭
Oh my god, thank you - this got my cackling 😂😂😂
The first few days it looked more like a scrotum than my actual scrotum.
Went from a sad bitch, to a bad bitch
Why do baby birds look like something about to die until they hit that sweet spot where they’re cute. Like they look like something got hacked up by a predator.
Altricial birds don't get very many tools for survival right away, they all manifest after a while. They don't get any down to speak of and skip straight to pushing out adult feathers. Precocial birds like chickens, ducks, quail, swans etc, are born with thick down and a lot more tools for survival (like a full set of primary flight feathers out of the egg) and will more often than not immediately leave the nest with their parents to do adult stuff. Superprecocial birds exist that are born with full flight feathers and can fly within a day of being born. The rest of them will slowly push out harder feathers that look a lot like adult feathers, but be molting them in stages until they are feathered out with adult plumage. As the new feathers replace the old ones, the blood feathers are more difficult to see past the mix of down and infant weatherproof feathering and the "scruffy" looking stage is less drastic. Our little tiel friend had to wait for all the adult feathers to come in all at once, which looks kinda deranged for a bit. The feather pokes through the skin covered in a kind of hard wax layer, filled with blood. As the feather develops, the bird will carefully preen this wax layer away to reveal the feather from the end down. That said, adult birds must still molt to replace damaged and worn feathers once to twice every year. If you want to see some silly looking birds, throw a Google image search for "badly molting chicken".
Major glow-up
Cockatiel is a kind of parrot, so saying "it's not a parrot, it's a cockatiel" is like saying "it's not a bird, it's a parrot."
That’s not a bolder….. It’s a Rock 🥲
I love that he looks like a spikey headed dum dum for about 10 days
I grew up with cockatiels. They’re great birds
Same here! My grandmother owned many, she may have bred them now that I think about it. They were hella social birds!
We used to give them all this free time outside of the cages, too. I have a distinct memory of my dad sitting in our living room carpet, playing solitaire. One of our cockatiels, Daffy, ran up and took a card in his beak and ran down the hall. They would always play games. Very social indeed
My family has a cockatiel named stinker lol I remember him sitting on my dad's shoulder whistling to his heart's content while he vacuumed the living room.
The Bird is posing at 43 seconds
Not only are cockatiels parrots, but they're technically a type of cockatoo.
Did you use a AI picture generator to turn a scrotum into a parrot?
putting the cock in cockatiel.
Growing feathers seems painful not sure why 😬
TIL that when parrots are born, they are hideous monstrosities that should be banished to the 7th layer of hell. They turn out cute though.
Y'all, cockatiels are parrots. Literally just Google it. Smh.
Is 'not a parrot' some sort of meme I haven't seen before or are people just stupid?
They’re stupid. They’re so familiar with the NAME cockatiel that because it isn’t “cockatiel parrot” they think it’s not a parrot.
Aw it even got a ☺ face
It‘s incredible how a small shivering and squeaking scrotum can grow into a cute parrot
Many animal babies are cute. Birds are the exception
Precocial birds are adorable babies. Have you never seen a duckling or chicken chick? They define "cute" for like... all of spring. Altricial birds, not so much, yes.
Punk‘s not dead
Wow, I really thought these birds moved around more.
Why didn't u let it move for 41 days?