Pacific Crest: The Cockatiel Resource




				Natural Perches The physical variety offered by natural perches makes a great addition to or replacement for the dowls found in most cockatiel cages. This is a partial list of trees you might want to hack down (just kidding) to bring a bit of nature into your cockatiel's life.



				Safe natural wood branches for birds include the following: Apple Arbutus Ash Aspen Beech Birch Cottonwood Crabapple Dogwood Elm Fir Hawthorn Larch Magnolia Manzanita Mulberry Pear Pine Poplar Sequoia (redwood) Willow DO NOT use apricot, cherry, peach, prune, plum or nectarine. These trees all belong to the Prunus species. They contain cyanogenic glycosides which release cyanide if ingested. This article copyright © Gillian A.Willis. Presented at Pacific Crest with permission of the author. Permission to re-use any part of this text (whole or in part) must be obtained from the author.