#plucking

[c0gw3bs]

People dont make enough wing emojis :( So i made some, please tell me if i should make more!! Made sure to include a bunch of variations for other birbs :3

#custom emoji #discord emoji #discord emote #did system #plural system #system stuff #plurality #custom emote #angel wings #wing stim #wing emoji #bird stim #plucking

[flock-talk]

Hey if you’ve been struggling for years with a bird who plucks here’s your friendly reminder that it’s probably not your fault.

Whether you adopted a plucker or your bird started plucking while in your care there’s a myriad of reasons why they may still be plucking. Sometimes it’s a “simple” fix of altering daylight hours, medication, enrichment or diet but a lot of the time it’s a lot deeper than that and a lot of the time it becomes habitual.

A lot of captive parrots end up falling in to the plucking loop simply because they weren’t allowed to be preened by their parents when they were young. When they normally would experience a release of endorphins from normal regulated preening brought on as a chick, many birds who weren’t parent raised lack that endorphin response and as a result can’t regulate their preening. This causes over preening, tattering the edges and more severe plucking. There’s no currently understood way to change that.

Feather plucking on its own is a self reinforcing behaviour. When the feather is pulled and they feel pain their body will release endorphins which unfortunately become some level of addictive. The bird will continue to pluck long after the original cause for plucking is gone simply because the endorphins released by plucking motivate them to repeat the process.

If you’re still struggling with a bird who plucks and you’ve tried everything under the sun to help them stop - it’s not your fault. Your care isn’t subpar. You’re doing great, and your bird is so lucky to have an owner dedicated to helping them every single day.

#plucking

[hivernal-stims]

Source

#stim #stim gifs #music #plucking #robot #animusic #animatronic #my gifs #stimblr #stim gif

[babes-on-the-bench]

#black tights #black pantyhose #plucking

[hunterkat]

An earlier comment reminded me of this exchange I had on a Facebook post I made looking for help with Rocco’s biting. Don’t be this person guys. Just because a bird plucks doesn’t mean it’s not otherwise healthy. Rocco had his last appointment in August and passed his exam with flying colors. Other than being a lintball of course.

And don’t judge owners because their bird plucks. Parrots aren’t meant to be kept in captivity in the first place- stereotypical behaviors are so common and can happen even in the best of care. Or, the bird might be rescued and has plucked since the owner got them. Believe me, good owners with a plucking bird do *everything* they can to try to alleviate the source of the plucking. Sometimes, it’s not fixable.

#birblr #plucking #parrots #parrot behavior

[postcard-from-the-past]

"Pelando la Pava" - idiom for flirting (usually from a balcony or window) in Spanish. Literally “to pluck the turkey”. A 19th century legend from Seville claimed that a servant instructed to pluck a bird for dinner forgot her task as she started flirting with her lover by a window; when asked about her delay, she shouted she was plucking the turkey.

Spanish vintage postcard

#pava #vintage #photography #claimed #postkarte #a 19th century #usually #delay #seville #plucking #carte postale #started #lover #postal #task #spanish #th #forgot #dinner #briefkaart #flirting #servant #postcard #instructed #literally #pelando #old #asked #balcony #pluck

[tenth-sentence]

Jill thought that when, in books, people live on what they shoot, it never tells you what a long, smelly, messy job it is plucking and cleaning dead birds, and how cold it makes your fingers.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair" - C. S. Lewis

#book quote #the chronicles of narnia #the silver chair #c s lewis #jill pole #hunting #long #smelly #messy #plucking #cleaning #processing #birds #dead animal

[i-love-legs-in-pantyhose]

#black pantyhose #black tights #plucking

[rubystims]

Turning Wild Herbs into Delicious Food by Longmeimei! 

#stim #stimmy #satisfying #gifset #gif #nature stim #nature #dog stim #dog #washing #shoveling #harvesting #plucking #weeds #flower stim #flowers #naturecore #hands #animal #green #pink #brown #longmeimei #bun gifs

[fantasy-scifi-art]

Art by DAMIAN LECHOSZEST

#Damian Lechoszest #beauty #geese #pluck #plucking #plucking good

[flock-talk]

For sure! @aradow

Garuda aviary mentions the concept here (where I was first introduced to the concept, they are mostly theorizing based on what we know of chick development and observed feather destruction between wild and captive birds.)

this article covers how the parent bird plays a crucial role in how the chicks are able to respond to stressors (study on chickens not parrots)

The Manual of parrot behaviour has a chapter on the influences of hand rearing on feather picking behaviours, the whole book is a pretty informative read

comparison of wild caught, parent reared, and hand reared African grey behaviour

comparing feather picking with corticosterone excretion (and mentions how endorphins help to cope with increased corticosterone)

General overview of plucking influences and social, developmental factors

Concludes that feather plucking behaviours are commonly sourced back to the imprinting periods prior to fledging among other influential factors

and if anyone wants to do further digging the "sciency" term for feather plucking is "pterotillomania" which helps a lot in finding good sources

#plucking

[drabbles-of-writing]

Hi your wing au is giving me extremely bad brainrot, and now I’m imagining the hexsquad teaching Hunter how to preen his wings properly. Or Camila shifting into mom mode and sitting him down to preen them, because if she can handle Luz’s wings, she can handle this catastrophe of a cardinal. Hunter’s just confused by how much he likes having actually okay looking wings/someone caring enough to help him.

Poor Hunter hasn't had to do much more than make them not look like an absolute clusterfuck. The most he's had them look nice is when he's presented for meetings or in public, and oftentimes he just has these fake feathers he slips in-between his feathers that make them look prettier, grander, and less patchy than his plucking would have you believe. Even then, it's not exactly preening, it's just making the outermost feathers look presentable.

Course, they're even messier when he arrives at Hexside. What with how little he's been looking after himself Period and the whole Hollow Mind incident making him pluck a Lot more. Luckily Gus is no stranger to it (he's a 'gifted kid' of course he stress-plucked at some point) and knows a few good tips to curb it and also, y'know, properly handle wings. Chew toys, they find, are the biggest help with Hunter's habit.

It takes a while before he lets anyone else preen his wings, bird brain getting antsy and whatnot. But he preens them with Gus and/or Willow around, half because he wants to know if he's doing it right, half because it's the only way they got him to preen at first. But eventually, Gus at one point does mention a patch of messy feathers on the backs of Hunter's wings and Hunter complains he can never reach them, and Gus offers, as he has every other time. The difference is that, only after a second of hesitation, Hunter agrees.

#asks #wing au #the owl house #toh #hunter toh #cardinal #preening #gus porter #willow park #wing care #hexside #plucking #feather plucking #stim toys

[euphoricfilter]

guys i think i’m making a friend. asmr guy might actually be starting an asmr channel 🥳

#my favorite asmr videos are still probably the hair brushing #i’ve kinda been into spit painting #but like tastefully #some people do too much and it’s unappealing #hair cutting i love #plucking #i love the word

[disabilityhealth]

I tweezed my eyebrows too thin ONE time over a decade ago and half of those hairs refused to grow back

But that single chin hair I’ve been perpetually plucking for the last fifteen years? She’s stronger than ever.

#there is no justice #hair #grooming #plucking #funny #relatable? idk #relatable #meme

[nymori]

I wish that I could have gotten a better video of this hawk (?) that I spotted this morning. I noticed that there were feathers raining down as I walked down the sidewalk, and looked up to see this friend plucking themselves. I love seeing birds in the city!

#bird #plucking #feathers #hawk #i think? #but if anyone knows better please correct me #I'm no ornithologist #city bird #american midwest #midwest

[johnmcuong]

Removing negative energy 🤌🏻

John’s ASMRventures: Chaotic ASMR while on a coffee high ☕️

Check out the full video here:

#ASMR #Blue Yeti #Hand sounds #Mouth sounds #Plucking #Cutting #Flutter #Whisper #Inaudible #Tingles #Trigger #Relax #Relaxation #Sleep #Youtube