Apartment Living?

[GreetingCardReligion]

Reading the thread about "where you keep your birds" I noticed that many of you may live in apartments.

Just out of sheer curiosity, if you do live in an apartment, what sort of birds do you keep? I know some birds are not considered "apartment birds" but I'm sure with enough love, patience, and wonderful neighbors they could work out very well!

So what are your experiences living in apartments (with or w/out roomates) with your fids? Ever have to move because of a noisy fid? What sort of birds have you / do you keep in your apartment?

[birdyland]

I haven't EVER had a big bird in an apartment, but we had some finches and a tiel when we lived in one for a short time while I was a child. I received the tiel, who was not *loud* by any means, from another young girl in the complex, because her neighbors were complaining heavily. I took the bird because we didn't care about our neighbors ;-} and we were moving shortly anyway.

I would never want to have to deal with a big bird and apartment living. Knock on wood. Knowing the noise that even my relitively quite macaws make, I think neighbor relations could get very heated, very fast.

[kateBird]

i live in an apartment and i own a yellow naped amazon and two green cheeks. i guess it kinda helps that i live in a 4-plex apartment structure and the person living above me is a little deaf. and amazingly, my green cheeks are the noisemakers. my amazon would rather sit pretty and watch.

[Graehstone]

We too live in a two bdrm apartment with 1 CAG, 1 TAG, 1 Cockatiel and 1 Senegal, both the Greys and the Sennie have their own playgrounds as well as seperate sleep cages in the second bdrm and day cages in the living room, next to the playgrounds, should we have to go someplace, they can stay in there and watch cartoons.
We are fortunate enough to have neighbors that are more than cool with any noise they might make and the managers son also lives in the complex and owns a Goffins which is way louder than any of mine could be.
We have been here nearly nine years now and have yet to get one single complaint.
Knock on wood.

[Andres_424]

I live in and apartment with my mother, father and my twin brother. It's a 3 story apartment. My room can often get noisy with the lovebirds, cockatiel, finches and the budgies, but I don't know if the neighbors complain about noise my parents surely do somtimes. It's kinda of hard to train my birds because there is not alot of places to go train. It was really hard and it took almost 2 years to get all of my Budgies trained like they are now.

[BirdFace]

I have a Senegal and she's pretty quiet most of the time. No complaints so far. I would love to bring home a Greenwing but my neighbors (and my wife) would put me out on the street :(

[Eliza]

I guess that I am kind of lucky in the apartment situation. There is only one apartment and it's above a funeral home. I haven't gotten any complaints during visitations or services about Beetle, so that's good... I'm always concerned that he'll somehow disrupt a family but it hasn't yet happened, so I doubt that will change.

Beetle CAN be a loud little bugger for a bird so small. I can hear him outside at times!

I did have budgies when I was in college. For 3 years I lived in the dorms and the only person who would complain was my neighbor's boyfried. I think that he was just yanking me, though. When I lived in the on-campus apartments I never got complaints from roommies or neighbors.

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[jessica313]

i live in an apartment with a green cheek. i have never had any problems/complaints.. although GCCs are pretty quiet birds to begin with, shadow is very well behaved noise-wise..

[kensbuns]

No big Macaws in Apartments or cockatoos. Just a recipe for disaster. I just had to give up my B&G due to screaming and the neighbors complaining.

[homebird]

I share a 3 bdrm apartment with my husband & son. We use our 3rd room as an office [used to be my studio *sigh*].

We have 1 Budgie and a very old cat [18] who is deaf and a lot slower than she used to be. Because our Budgie's cage is fairly small we can move him room to room so he's always with someone - or is listening to music. He has 2 rooms were he is out most of the time. The rest of the apartment is too dangerous because of the balcony and the use it gets, even in the winter. Being on the 29th floor & having Peregrines nesting in a building nearby, we are nervous. Laker is flighted and today he escaped the cage while I was baking [giving him some apple] & he flew around & around the kitchen before landing on my husband's head.

I think a small bird is Ok for an apartment. Budgies rule - what can I say. They are so tiny but very smart & so colourful.
Maybe a Parrotlet or Cockatiel/Sennie/Meyers/Lovebird/Quaker/Dove/finches/canary/ would be OK. You can hear our Budgie from the elevators if our door is open & about 20' down the hall with the door closed. Our neighbours have not complained.

The prefered apartment pet seems to be the cat. On our floor alone there are 7 cats, 2 small dogs & 1 Budgie.