Deadly Delicacies


	Table of Contents Back Next Deadly Delicacies By now you know we will chew just about anything without a second thought. But just what shouldn't we chew? Here is a list, and I'm sure it's only partial, of everything my mom and I know a cockatoo should stay away from. If you know something we don't, please let us know! Foods Avocado Chocolate Coffee Alcohol raw onion rhubarb iceberg lettuce parsley salt Plants Amaryllis Angle's trumpet Arum lily Australian Flametree Autumn Crocus Azalea Baneberry Beans (Castor, Horse, Fava, Broad, Glory, Scarlet Runner, Mescal, Navy) Bird of Paradise Bishop's Weed Black Laurel Bleeding Heart Bloodroot Blue Bonnet Bluegreen algea Boxwood Bracken Fern Buckthorn Bulb Flowers (i.e.; tuplips, daffodils, narcissus, hyacinth) Burdock Buttercups Cacao Caladium spp/ elephant's ear Calla lily Camel Bush Cana lily Cardinal flower Castor Bean Chalis (Trumpet Vine) Cherry Tree China Berry Tree Christmas Candle Clematis Cocklebur Coral plant Coriander Corncockle Coyatillo Cowslip Cutleaf Cycads Daphne Datura Death Camus Delphinium Devil's Ivy Dieffenbachia/ dumb cane Elderberry Elephant's Ear English Ivy Ergot Eucalyptus Euonymus (Spindle tree) Euphorbia Cactus False Hellborne Flame Tree Felt Plant Fig (Weeping) FireThorn Four o'clock Foxglove Glottidium Golden Chain Grasses (Johnson, Sorghum, Sudan & Broom Corn) Ground Cherry Heaths (i.e.; rhododendron) Heliotrope Hemlock Henbane Hollies Honeysickle Horse chestnut Horse tail Hoya spp. Hyacinth Hydrangea Iris Ivy Jack-in-the-pulpit Jasmine Jerusalem Cherry Jimsonweed Juniper Kalanchoe spp. Lantana Larkspur Laurels Lily of the Valley Lobelia Locoweed Locusts Lords and Ladies Lupine Malanga Marijuana Mayapple Mexican Breadfruit Mexican Poppy Milkweed Mistletoe Mock orange Monkshood Moonseed Morning Glory Mother in law/ Snake plant Mountain Laurel Mushrooms Narcissus Nerium Nightshades (i.e.; eggplant) Oak Oleander Parsley Periwinkle Philodendron Pigweed Poinciana Poinsettia Poison Ivy Poison Oak Pokeweed Potatoe shoots Pothos/ Ivy Arum Private Hedge Purges Pyracantha Rain tree Ranunculus Rape Rattlebos Red Maple Rhododendron Rhubarb leaves Sand box tree Schefflera Skunk cabbage Spathiphyllum/ peace lily Sorrel Snow Drop Sweet Pea Tansey (Ragwort) Tobacco Vetch Virginia Creeper Wattle Weeping Fig White Cedar Wisteria yews Yellow Jasmine most fruit seeds Chemicals calcium oxalate caffein pestisides on fruits Teflon (gases released if overheated that are deadly even in small amounts) aerosol FEBREEZE oven cleaners air fresheners scented candles new rugs, flooring paint fumes anything in general with a strong scent can be harmful to us sensitive birds Other Brass galvanized steel lead zinc cheap metals in general Many common heating/ cooking devices (Have Teflon or other nonstick coatings)