It's beautiful

Thank you.

Gorgeous! Your' half will be done soon!

No worries, I had to force myself to stop playing video games and draw some pictures.

He looks JUST like my male <3

That's awesome. I just looked at a bunch of photos and tried to make him look standard but not boring.

Cockatiels are so cute.

They have such personalities too <3

This is wonderful :3

you have great shades adn detail in thi sone he really looks real to me. your wings are getting really good.

Tank you Sammy.

I look very closely at bird wings a lot.

bird brain

CAW CAW

*Cocking gun sounds*

Caw?

*hides on bushes*

*in

shoots bird seed*

OMG FUUUUUUD.
*hops out*

I love this picture, its one of my favorite birds i even have one on my shoulder this very moment XD

I've only ever been bitten by them. I know that was because of their owners sucking and not the bird itself. They're so damn cute tho

Ugh stupid owners 8c. I know mine never bites he just like nips but it barely hurts at all. I'm gonna commit more to training him this summer. I wanna see if i can get him used to walking on solid surfaces and not just me XD. He dosen't seem to mind couches and stuff its like tables or my bed o_o..

The smooth cold surface probably messes with him. You can train him on it though.

Yeah, i'm hoping to make his life a little nicer this summer with a big cage and plenty of fun things for him. Still debating on getting a second one due to the horror stories 8c.. You know like he'll hate me for ever and only like the other bird..

IF he already likes you then having a friend shouldn't make him hate you. Though if you give an unsocialized bird a friend he will only like his friend because... he's not socialized to people. Birds are weird and have odd behaviors sometimes, it's a risk you would have to take.
There's also the risk of him not liking the other bird and becoming jealous you're paying attention to it.

Make sure they're the same sex if you get another one. Having a male and female can cause the male to get very territorial over his female and very jealous of you.

The territorial thing with mixed sexes doesn't always happen either.

Ah oki, i want to get the same sex so they don't lay eggs.

*nods* always a good thing to not want to happen.

Yeah i'd really rather not have unwanted babies, I'd let them nest but if its a girl they get really mean about that, Well territorial. I need to train him to hands too hes a bit touchy toward me but not my dad. Though currently he seems to be preening me again XD

Yea, just handle him a lot, he'll desensitize. Teaching him to step up on your hand so you don't have to forcefully grab him will help too. Birds much prefer willingly getting on your hand over being grabbed.

Just bring your hand up behind his feet and try to slide them under. Whenever you get him on your hand clearly say "Step"
That's how we do it with the teaching birds at the center, I'm sure it would work the same way for a smart bird like a Cockatiel.

I know thats so odd he knows how do it that the problem is he runs away XD. Oh well i think he just needs a good coaxing, Also you got an Msn or something ? I'd love to talk more about birds with out spamming up your page with it.

All I use is googletalk.

Not sure how to use that but i think it works with aim.

Just what i thought, about the same sex thing. Thanks a lot, though i have to get him sexed.. Since hes that coloration were you cannot tell his gender D8. All this time we just said he was a dude but we have no idea..

That looks very realistic, if it wasn't for the white b/g one may think it's a photo at first glance. I always admire the skill of traditional artists because they don't have a ctrl+z button, every stroke is permanent, when I see pieces like this I'm just amazed.

I wish we had ctrl Z sometimes.

Life needs a ctrl Z button

Bloody groovalissious job

I have a cockatiel and he looks just like this.

is he sweet?

when you sit down below the cage. He hates it when you stand above him.

He wants to be the tallest. lol

and he hates mornings. He always hate being talked to in the morning. After 9 he's fine.