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Ever wonder what your cockatiel actually sees when they're perched on your shoulder?
Parrots have eyes positioned on the sides of their head, giving them an enormous ~300° field of view — nearly a full circle around them. That's why your bird can spot movement behind you before you even notice it.
But here's the trade-off: that wide-angle vision comes from mostly monocular sight — each eye working independently, seeing a different scene. Only a narrow cone directly in front overlaps into true binocular vision, where both eyes work together for sharp depth perception.
So when your cockatiel tilts its head to look at something? That's not confusion — it's switching between monocular scanning and binocular focus to actually judge distance.
Built for survival in the wild, this vision setup means your bird is wired to notice everything, all the time.
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In the next part of our conversation with undercover investigator, author, and advocate Pete Paxton, Pete describes what he believes the public would find most shocking about a large-scale commercial bird-breeding operation:
“I think the public would be shocked by all of it.”
Online, people may see images of small-scale breeders and imagine something very different from what Pete encountered. Instead, he describes rows of wire cages—food, water, perhaps a perch and nesting box, but little to occupy the intelligent, social birds living inside them. Cage after cage, stacked together.
Having previously investigated puppy mills, the similarities were impossible for Pete to ignore.
His description is simple and difficult to forget:
“This is like a bird prison.”
Go back and watch other segments of our conversation with Pete as we continue looking behind the scenes of the commercial bird trade.
Birds are more than products. Don’t support the commercial bird trade.
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