Why do pet birds like to have mirrors in their cages?
PetsPet birds can bring a lot of joy to a home and are not very expensive to choose as pets. Of course, I am talking about parakeets, lovebirds and other not so expensive birds of the parrot family.
A smaller bird will cost less in every part of pet ownership, a cheaper cage, cheaper maintenance.
If you have decided to have a bird as a pet, you should know that they are social animals. They love to be in a couple. Keeping a bird will require you to spend much more time with it.
But what if you want a bird. Just a bird to share the space with you. You don’t mind spending time on it. But there will be days when you have to leave your bird alone.
That’s where the mirror comes in handy.
Pet birds like to have mirrors in their cages and putting one in the cage will make your pet bird very happy. It will also make them very talkative. So what about those mirrors and birds?
Being so social, birds love company. What do you see when you look in the mirror? Yourself. What does a bird see? Another bird. A friend. to friend Another bird with whom to talk and spend time.
You can see parakeets that spend hours talking to the mirrors. They chirp and speak in a softer voice than usual. They are actually socializing with the other bird.
That’s it. That’s why they love mirrors. It gives them the opportunity to socialize with someone other than you.
There is also one important thing to know when it comes to mirrors. If you are trying to teach your parakeet or another bird to talk, you should reconsider putting a mirror in the cage.
Why? Having another bird will make it much more difficult for you to teach it to speak. Having a friend is having someone to talk to. Having a mirror in the cage is the same. And if the bird has someone to talk to, he won’t talk to you much. That means it will learn our speech much slower and more difficult.