Re: panic flights, tiels

["Janet Jeanpierre" <jeanpierre@v...>]

My wild-caught (and apparently wild-fledged) Timneh spends a great 
deal of time on the ground. My captive bred Red Tailed Greys were 
never on the ground, or so I thought until I had dinner last night 
with a neighbour. Grayson used to perch on a lamp post outside his 
villa and chatter away. My neighbour told me that he was once 
startled when Grayson grabbed onto his toe.

My White Capped Pionus never intentionally goes to the ground. She 
is still flight handicapped, so I can't say what she would do if she 
felt confident enough to choose.

--- In Freeflight@yahoogroups.com, Emily Heenan <toozoo@o...> wrote:
> I wonder if it's the same for African Greys, since they too 
apparently 
> spend considerable time on the ground in the wild. I don't know 
much about 
> Pionus but in every picture I've seen of them in the wild they were 
either 
> flying or perched up in trees.
> 
> /emily