November 30 2023 Holiday Gift Guide for the Bird Lovers on Your List
If you are looking for something for the bird OR bird lover in your life and you’re wondering how to show them you know what’s going on, we have a list for you!
We’ve put together a carefully curated list of our favorite bird and animal related items. Each of these products is a product we love and believe in.
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Bird enrichment
ParrotsRUs always has great toys, and food of course! Shop their subscription packages
And don’t forget, if you are a Avian Behavior Laboratory member, we have ParrotsRU in our member discount program!
For all kinds of birds – we gave a toy like this to Zisou, our black-throated magpie jay, and she plays with it all day. No kidding.
If you’ve watched our crating classes, you know that different crates work well for different species. Get My Favorite Double Door Metal Crate for large parrots here to avoid nesting behavior (it’s foldable for storage!)
and one a smaller one for medium-sized parrots
Don’t forget to put a perch!
Do you have a falconer in your life? We always need new equipment. Here is our solution to cope: dremel heads,
a cordless dremeland a set of precision knives.
Outside
How to have a bird-friendly garden, maintain a balance between pests and observe birds? Get a birdhouse! This four-pack will allow your resident bluebirds to choose their favorite spot.
Rechargeable hand warmer – For this Californian, yes!
Dance boots – My favorite for the outdoors, trail running and work.
Books
A collection that brings together the best stories, essays and poems about birds from forty years of history. Orion. Here you’ll find owls, cranes, thrushes, finches, penguins, petrels and buzzards, and the people who love them, including Brian Doyle, John Freeman, Elizabeth Kolbert, J. Drew Lanham, Mary Oliver, Emily Raboteau, Sandra. Steingraber and Terry Tempest Williams. Co-edited and presented by Jonathan Franzen
Not the birds, but the science is so wonderfully illuminating that I had to include it.
One of my favorite authors and the nicest person to meet in real life. His other book, Living on the Wind, literally changed my life.
I have already given this book away twice before finishing it!
A wonderful book about owls!
My favorite read of 2023
Organizations to support
The Owl Research Institute
Doing incredible work with owl species across North America
https://www.owlresearchinstitute.org
FalconWatch
Adopt a Bird Campaigns and so much more!
The Gabriel Foundation
https://thegabrielfoundation.org
Doing work for parrots in need
The endowment of birds
An amazing organization that is the legacy of Laney Rickman’s work with blue-throated macaws, one of the most endangered macaws.
https://www.birdendowment.org/ways-to-support