These very cute, smart and beautiful birds are called Cockatiels.  We had 4 of them plus a baby from 2 of them as in the above pictures.  The baby was born on 2/21/02.  It was such a shrilling experience to see such a lovely life born.  The baby's parents are called BiBi (female, with white and gray feather) and Didi (the one with pure white feather).  

These are my birthday gifts for Nina in 2000.  I bought them because I heard from our conversations that she used to keep birds when she was very young but very sadly before she immigrated to the US, she had to give them up to her friends.  I am glad the cockatiels are prettier and closer to us than the ones she kept before.  They are the best birthday gifts I have given to someone so important, my wife Nina, in my life.  I am very happy that Nina loves them so much.  I didn't do much, our God did all the work. 

Cockatiels and parrots belong to the same family although of different species.  If trained well at their early ages through hand-feeding, they would think they are human beings and imitate our language.

They not only can imitate our language but are like human beings in a lot of ways.  For example, they have different personalities.  Some of them are very aggressive, some very passive and quiet, some very responsive to us and others simply ignored us when we approached them.

They gave us so much fun.  

From the beauty of the cockatiels, we couldn't help but Praise The Lord for such wonderful creation.  Our God is the greatest creator, designer and artist of all.  

As of 5/15/09, the 3rd generation were born and they came in 3 -- Abby (5/15/09), Bailey (5/15/09) and Cody (5/20/09) (Sadly, Cody lived only for 3 days and died on 5/22/09 because he was too small and couldn't compete with his older sister and brother during meal time!  He was starved to death!)

This is amazing because in the wild there are so many birds, so many choices and they can choose the natural favorable environment to make it work. That's why over the years, the grandparents were only able to hatch 1 egg successfully and the grandma died in 2003 because of lack of calcium after laying the 9th egg and the 10th egg got stuck in the body. The veterinarian couldn't save her.

We didn't expect the father and the mom to outdo the grandparents because the grandparents were abnormally intelligent birds. Last time, the mom & dad failed because they didn't seem to have a clue what to do with the eggs. 

This time, it's like miracle, they suddenly got it and knew exactly what to do and how to do it. They were also so committed, each taking 12 hours per day in turn working together to make it work!

Last updated on 12/28/2010