I rarely share how many pets we have because others think I am crazy. My house is currently home to:
Griffina and Celestino, lovebirds. both were sold to us sick and missexed. Stino is an angel and Griffi is, well, a nasty hen as we affectionately call her. They are house separately due to personality and to prevent babies.
Bela and Luna, ring necked doves. Adopted them to save them from being put down at a wild bird center.
Winnie and Trafalgar, feral pigeons. Turned into same center above as squeakers. Being non native they were going to put them down.
Papa Rob, King pigeon. A meat pigeon from same center above.
Rainbow, King pigeon/ feral mix. Our only oops baby and how we found out Papa Rob wasn't a Roberta.
Lucky, Mir, Little Beak, Albert, Igor, Pteri and Lucky (all boys) and Starla Bean, Tessie, Dactylina (all girls), European Starlings which are legal to possess in my state because they are non native. All would have been put down after some had been used to train new volunteers and not put native birds in danger.
Jasmine, Fluffala, Tippala and Thor, cats. Jasmine was adopted from an awesome rescue and the rest were abandoned to starve at four weeks old. A neighbor saved them and I soon took over when they became to much for them.
And finally Edgar the chinchilla, our first new pet since Rainbow hatched a few years ago.
Thankfully Edgar is an only chin and the cats are fixed. Our birds on the other hand are in major breeding mode. Thankfully there are successful way of preventing babies other wise we would have a much bigger flock.
Also the lovebirds are the only birds that get under two hours of free flight. Pigeons and doves get 12 hours a day and the starlings are in an indoor aviary where they get free fligh 24/7. Oops, I almost forgot all starlings are unreleasable, Lucky and Mir have injuries that make them cage bound but they don't seem to mind.
Hope you enjoyed hearing about my babies.
If you want to see what a baby pigeon looks like here's a link to a slide show that goes from her birth to adulthood. The two pigeons you will see are her moms since she was raised by both my girls, longer story.
http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i216/Jazicat/Baby Rainbow/?action=view¤t=ece6b58e.pbw