Little Beaks

28/12/2025

I was watching this scene earlier and wondering why I find birds particularly fascinating with their movements and activity.

Honestly, this fascination was the same when i was a kid.

It's largely because they don't have hands... something which is difficult for a lot of people (or maybe just me?) to comprehend, given how much we depend on them.

So while humans manipulate and complete so many actions with their hands, for birds, it's usually the beak doing most of the work.

And this is why providing them with plenty of natural stuff to chew is so important, for beak maintenance, mental and physical enrichment, and simply to give them what they naturally desire.

video description: several budgies, weiros, and kakarikis are climbing on and chewing some foliage in an aviary. The budgies particularly are getting into it, going a bit upside down while trying to balance. Near halfway, a familiar weiro face appears to partially blur the screen.

26/12/2025

When zebra finches get irritated 😅

video description: a zebra finch sits on a branch just below a bit of overhanging bottlebrush branch. The twiggy branch is clearly irritating the finch, who repeatedly tries to push it further behind and away. A second finch joins and tries to break the tip of the twig.

26/12/2025

People say Australia is weird.

We happily live alongside some of the most poisonous creatures on Earth.

We’re eager to swim in waters knowing some of the world’s greatest hunting machines share those same tides.

One half of the country can be on fire while the other is flooding.

And yesterday - Christmas Day - Western Australia was reportedly the hottest place on Earth, while Tasmania had snow.

So… weird?
Fair call.

Hardcore?
No question.

Home to some of the bravest, hardest-working emergency services people on the planet?
Absolutely.

To our firies, paramedics, and all emergency services - sacrificing time with family and friends to save lives, land, and property - thank you.

People say Australia is weird.
But this country is incredible.

26/12/2025

The holiday season… perfect excuse to be corny 😏

And perfect time for us to be planning for the new year.

So, what's happening?

We're getting started on this assisted rehoming group that's been mentioned a couple of times.

To be clear: This is NOT for rehoming Little Beaks birds. It’s about providing a safer, more considered space for people who need help rehoming or adopting, particularly for birds we can’t take in.

Basically, due to being increasingly contacted by people in this situation, we're gonna trial a group - but want your input on how it should work, so everyone involved feels informed and confident.

If you're interested in the group and would like to have a say, we'd really appreciate your input via the linked survey (can be completely anonymous):

www.littlebeaks.org/rehoming-group-survey

As always, thank you all for your support.

Enjoy this lot doing what they do best.

video description: a cob of corn lies on the aviary ground with some leafy foliage next to it. A couple of budgies attack it from the edge, another from on top, and a fourth budgie stands slightly behind, watching them. That budgie then starts nibbling from the ground as another budgie joins them. All the waddling continues with a weiro also entering the scene. Nearly the whole time there is also a weiro tail visible over the top of the screen, sitting on the phone. Guess who.

26/12/2025

The only thing that comes to mind when seeing this photo:

'Joey doesn't share food!'

(Friends fans will get it 😏)

Image Description: Two budgies on the ground eating corn on the cob. One is actively chewing the corn while the other looks on closely, their visible eye only open a sliver, appearing unimpressed or mildly annoyed.

25/12/2025

To everyone in this amazing community, thank you for being here and we hope you're having a wonderful day.

To those who celebrate, Merry Christmas.

To those for whom this is a harder day, we're thinking of you and hope you find some reasons to smile.

To those around WA, we hope you're keeping cool and hydrated.

As at 1pm, my watch says it's 41 degrees... 🫠

Please enjoy a few seconds of this chatterbox ❤️

video description: a male blue budgie stands on a thick branch, chattering away to himself.

24/12/2025

*Wonders why I'm sleepy today*

FYI, we're between Perth and Byford (so halfway down left side of this map).

Image Description: heat map of WA with many places labelled with their overnight temperature, most in the mid-high 20s (celcius).

Tonight is refusing to behave like a night, and frankly it should be embarrassed.

While the spotlight has been hogged by Christmas Day with its very loud plans to flirt with 40 degrees and possibly sprint past 43 in some spots, the real plot twist is happening while you’re meant to be sleeping. Or at least pretending to.

Overnight temperatures are staying stubbornly high, with widespread mid to high 20s expected right through to dawn. That’s not “warm for December”. That’s “why is my pillow angry” territory. Air-cons will be working overtime, fans will just be moving hot air around for morale, and anyone without cooling will be learning new breathing techniques.

For context, the highest minimum temperature ever recorded on Christmas Day for the Perth Metro is 25.9°C, set way back in 1915. A hundred-plus years later, we’re lining up to have a serious go at that record, and not in a subtle way. Some locations may not drop much below that at all, which means the heat doesn’t reset overnight. It just… loiters. Like an uninvited guest who won’t take the hint.

So if tonight feels more like late afternoon with the lights turned off, that’s because it basically is. Hydrate, check on pets, make peace with your air-con, and lower expectations for sleep quality. The atmosphere has chosen chaos, and it’s committing to the bit.

Tomorrow will be hot. Tonight will already be hot. Summer is not easing us into this. It’s kicking the door down.

24/12/2025

Sometimes I go through my phone and find random clips from within that week, that I'd forgotten about.

Can't be a true bird person unless you have enough photos/videos for that to happen, right? 😅

This clip is just a perfect demonstration of weiro tempers 😝 can be because they feel their personal space is being invaded, or the might just not like each other. (Other possible reasons too, but this is most likely in this case.)

Also a good example why two birds kept together won't necessarily get on.

video description: on a hanging branch two weiros are beak wrestling and generally being jerks to each other. One flies off near the end, leaving the other looking somewhat chuffed.

23/12/2025

Perth friends! Is anyone able to help a little lovebird get his wings back?

A blue masked lovebird named Herman was recently adopted after suffering a severe, unintentional wing clip. He’s now safe, loved, and under veterinary care, and the plan is to restore his ability to fly through feather imping.

To do that properly, we’re helping his new family to source moulted lovebird flight feathers.

What we’re looking for
• Lovebird flight feathers only (same species is ideal)
• Moulted feathers (not plucked)
• PBFD-free birds
• Any shade suitable for a blue masked lovebird
• Around 6 feathers in total (even partial contributions help)

Location
• Perth / WA
• Collection can be arranged - feathers can be picked up from anywhere around Perth

Why this matters
• Using the same species and similar colouring helps reduce the risk of the bird picking at or rejecting the imping feathers
• It gives Herman the best chance at balanced, confident flight again

If you have feathers saved, know someone who does, or are part of a local bird group where this could be shared, please get in touch or share this post.

Sometimes the smallest things - like a feather kept after a moult - can change a life.

Thank you for helping Herman ❤️

(Image from Herman's recent Christmas photoshoot 😊)

Image Description: A small blue masked lovebird stands on a light blue surface surrounded by colourful Christmas baubles in gold, red, pink, and green. The lovebird has a dark head, white eye rings, a pale beak, and bright blue feathers on its chest and wings. The baubles are scattered around the bird at different distances, creating a festive photoshoot scene.

23/12/2025

Sometimes I pull out the camera on purpose, hoping to catch a moment.

Other times, I set it down…. and let curiosity take over.

Just birds being birds 😊

Also, we've received a couple of surprise contributions recently which we're extremely grateful for - thank you to those people!

We do have a new PayPal link which I've yet to update in most places (will be doing soon). The old one still works, but we'll be progressively moving everything over to the new one (paypal.me/littlebeaksorg)

Thanks again all for your support ❤️

video description: ground level inside an aviary. A weiro repeatedly walks very close to the camera, briefly filling the frame and going in and out of focus. Other birds, including budgies, weiros, and Pudge the plumhead, move around in the background among branches and sand.

21/12/2025

This weiro is me when I bump into something, am already grumpy, then become irrationally angry at an inanimate object, while attempting to make myself look in control.

🫠

video description: several weiros sit together on a branch with some foliage drooping over it. On a lower thinner branch, one weiro sits watching a second one. The second has attempted to nibble a bit of branch the other was displeased with, so took a nip, and most likely enjoys the proceeding chaos. The weiro in question, regains composure with a couple of wing flaps before climbing into an adjoining twig just above, and starts slowmo woodpecker-style tapping the tip of it. He climbs down again after a few moments and attempts to pick a fight with the first weiro again, quickly loses, and flies off. All other weiros seem completely unbothered. One weiro above is enjoying nibbling at various drooping bits of foliage.

21/12/2025

Love this little guy's enthusiasm, even in the face of rejection 😅

(Man I wish I could read their minds!)

video description: on the soil ground of an aviary, a female white budgie sits facing a green and yellow male budgie, who is chattering and headbobbing excitedly. She suddenly thrusts her neck forward, making him dash, but he quickly returns to his headbobbing, disrupting some back feather preening she has commenced. She seems to appreciate this less and lunges forward a little more aggressively, before turning to waddle away, him quickly following. While all this is going on, a blue budgie with back to the camera, sits near them for the whole time watching.