![]() ![]() Look for a well-established business that has longevity in your community for the best knowledge about the trees in your area. While it is possible you might luck into someone familiar with local flora, it is just as likely the person at the counter has been trained as the cashier for the bedding department. When you find a tree you like but aren’t sure what type it is, take a photo of it from a distance and a small sample branch (as many tree species are identified by their leaves) and head out to your local nursery. However, knowing which trees are toxic and safe will not help you without being able to identify the tree you are currently looking at. It is up to we owners to make adaptations ourselves and it is simple enough to do.Ĭrepe Myrtles are just one of many tree varieties that can provide us with branches to use alternatively to the perches provided when we buy a cage. I like to think that most societies have evolved from that neanderthal-type thinking, but we haven’t come that far in cage design. I think that early bird cages were designed and arranged to enhance the viewing of the birds and did not at all take into account a bird’s physical or emotional comfort. If you asked a cage manufacturer, I suspect they would tell you that all perches must be invariable in size and shape and must extend from one side of the cage to the other. That variety is important to the good health of their feet. They widen and narrow, bend and twist, and rise in fall in ways that give our birds variety and options as they navigate their cages and allow them to choose what size and shape feels best to them. Tree branches do not grow in uniform shapes and sizes. Not that I am admitting to anything, but I might have slipped out at night with my hack saw on one or two occasions to acquire a particularly good looking branch. They don’t require much maintenance except for occasional pruning during which time I would shamelessly follow the landscapers from tree to tree picking my favorite branches to take home. They were small to medium trees with branches that were typically just the right size for the feet of an umbrella cockatoo. Before I moved here to Orlando, I lived in an apartment in Austin, TX that was landscaped with beautiful crepe myrtle trees. ![]()
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