theramseyloft:

Not just separate flight times. They really shouldn’t even be caged in the same room.

Columbids are noise-sensitive and stressed by loud commotion.

Psitticines have such high decible comunication because they need to keep in touch over miles of distance. That’s just the way they talk.

But Psitticines are INCREDIBLY dangerous creatures to keep columbids anywhere near.

There is no psitticine on the planet too small to fatally injure a dove or pigeon. 

Even a pacific parrotlet could kill a fully grown pigeon just with one good bite

It wouldn’t even have to break bone! 

Bird blood has very limited clotting factors and they can bleed to death from a quicked toenail if some sort of styptic is not applied fast enough.

I have seen he aftermath when a love bird climbed into a dove’s cage and bit nearly half of her beak off while she was sitting on her eggs.

I have heard from dove owners, who were told that it was safe to cohabitate them, about their parakeet killing their dove.

A dove or pigeon in a house with one or more parrots is only ever safe while the parrot is caged, unless their out time is in an entirely different room and who ever is out is supervised at all times.

A flying columbid in the same room as a caged psitticine is NOT safe.

Doves or pigeons loose in a room with a caged parrot can be maimed or killed if the columbid lands on the psitticine’s cage and its foot or wing is grabbed and pulled through by the resident. 

And keep in mind that the psitticines are NOT being malicious! 

They bite and grab toys, furniture, and each other in curious play, and just have no way of knowing that the columbids can’t stand up to it and will be more grievously injured than another psitticine would have been. 

If a parrot bites another parrot hard enough to hurt, the other parrot will retaliate and the first will let go.

Columbids have no way to defend themselves from or deter a curious psitticine that grabs too hard.