WARNING...Don't touch the babies!

These are not our babies. They are in our home because I offer a bird sitting service and I'm an experienced hand feeder of many species.

These two babies are eclectus parrots. Eclectus parrots are sexually dimorphic, meaning you can tell male from female by their color alone. Males are green in plumage and females are red/purple in plumage. There are sub species and even a blue color variety that are stunning.

The bird that is guarding the babies is a completely different species from them. He is a violet harlequin Ringneck. He is NOT clipped but rather has an amputated wing.
HIS STORY:
Shortly after hatching his mother bit half his wing off. We were given the opportunity to rescue him rather than him being euthanized. We knew it may be a long road to his recovery but we wanted to offer a better quality of life. As his half wing grew his feathers didn't grow correctly and were growing inward into his body. Initially our vet pulled the feathers in hopes that the feathers would grow back correctly. When that didn't happen his wing tip was cauterized to prevent the growth of feathers coming in. With all that he had some that still grew back. Obviously never being able to fly and only fall those feathers would break, bleed and cause discomfort/pain. Between our wonderful board certified Avian Vet Dr. Thomas Tully of LSU (feel free to check his credentials) and I we decided that an amputation of the wing was best to prevent further bleeding and pain. He did fantastic with surgery and was able to come home after 24 hours. He is a super happy go lucky kind of bird who gets around quite well on foot, climbs great and talks merely all day. His name is Cypress but is referred to as "mommies angel" and says so in most of our videos I share amongst many other things. This boy is not only full of life but a complete dare devil. We have to keep a closer eye on his whereabouts to prevent climbing then falling as he can spook easier than our other flock members who are all fully flighted and because he finds himself walking around a lot we have to be mindful of where we walk.

He started showing interest in babies when he was close to 1 year old. Natural instinct, possibly but no doubt loves them and will guard them. We don't punish our birds are they are free roaming throughout our home so I'm not going to put him up to get to any babies that may be in our home. This video was edited to show that any time I'm needing to get to any baby that he will protect them. If I'm not recording this it still happens. If I get bit, I get bit and I'll be okay. I feed them and we move on and he is right back to guarding them or if I hold them he insists on being on me to talk to them and offer up a few air kisses or beak kisses.

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