Bonnie and Clyde have had numerous babies over the past year and this is the first yellow baby - an unusual color mutation. She is really sweet but seems to be treated like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer because she is different. We had to place her in her very own cage tonight because Bonnie, Clyde and her siblings were picking on her. John noticed some blood on the cage and saw that it was coming from the back of her head. Since she is the baby, she may have been trying to get back into the nest box and, with 5 eggs already laid, she is not welcome. The parents can be very aggressive when they feel it's time for the kids to move out. John clipped her wings so she would not fly all over the house and we played with her for awhile. We plan on keeping her and working with her to make her tame so she will let us hold her. She's already a very sweet little bird. Hopefully she does ok with the injuries.
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