Everything For The Birds

I went 4 times in 4 days, does that answer your question !
This will be my GO TO place for my baby bird :)

We are lucky to have such a great bird store in Wilton Manors, one of the two best bird shops in Fort Lauderdale. If they don’t have something you’re looking for, then they will get it ordered for you (including specific foods). Most shops don’t want to be bothered ordering bird foods. Everyone there is knowledgeable and helpful. They carry a great selection of cages, even very large outdoor ones.

If only every town had a store for birds like Everything for the Birds. Personalized care from both the owners and staff. Special instructions allowed for bird boarding (my parrot is flighted).
Healthy pets (although I got mine from another place), great toy and food selection. Whatever you think of birds, you got to stop in this place.

As an owner of four parrots, I cannot say enough good about this bird shop. The owner is ver knowledgeable and goes out of his way to get whatever one needs to successfully care for your pets. Having been in the store many times, I know that it is impeccably clean. I am always impressed how gentle and friendly the birds are and wish I had purchased my birds here because they are so used to being handled. There is a great selection of bird foods, cages, cleaning products and toys that make it possible to raise healthy birds. I also have my birds nails trimmed there that process is done in a stressless fashion. I have become a loyal customer.

If you are knowledgeable about bird health, safety & well-​being, you
know the birds at this store have it tough.
Let me explain.
«Everything for the Birds» boasts it has «everything» you need to care
for your pet bird. The reality is, birds need clean water, a safe
environment to perch, interactive toys, regular grooming, space & a
diet that meets their needs.
On each of the four occasions which I visited this store, I was
saddened by the amout of space given to the live product (the birds)
in comparison to the amount of square footage allotted for dry product
like cages, stands, toys & food. The blatant disrespect for the
well-​being of the live inventory they keep is obvious. How they can
claim to have «everything» for the birds & not give them a basic need
like space, is beyond logic.
There is no use boasting about hand-​fed babies (as the owner did on
two occasions), when an attempt to handle one leads to biting on 7 out
of 7 birds. Hand-​fed babies are only a selling point if they CONTINUE
to be handled up ’till the time of purchase. These birds, in one case
4 were in one cage, were combative, aggressive & in rough shape. Now,
I was raised handling exotic birds & have all my life. Bites don’t
phase me. But to have e-​v-​e-​r-​y bird I handle bite me through the
skin, was disappointing. And with the consistent pattern of aggression
in the supposed «hand-​fed babies», I drew several conclusions, as a
customer, applying basic bird knowledge.
ONE: The grooming standards for the birds here are poor. Most birds I
handled & saw had overgrown beaks, flaking beaks & too long, to be
healthy or comfortable, nails. Lack of proper grooming leads to
arthritic claws, and untrimmed beaks are uncomfortable to the birds,
not to mention does not allow them to eat properly.
TWO: These birds are not given proper living conditions while waiting
to be sold. I witnessed two Blue & Gold Macaw babies & one Umbrella
Cockatoo baby, in a glass tank, commonly used for fish & other exotic
pets. There were no perches for these babies to rest. They were
perched on top of the glass tank (stressing their claws, it’s not
natural for them to perch on a glass/​plexi-​glass surface for long
periods of time). And one baby Macaw actually climbed up onto the
cages placed on the shelf above, and was eye to eye with the Canaries.
This can be extremely stressful to a small song bird & clearly no one
there cares about that. ANYONE WHO KNOWS about Canaries & other song
birds, knows that they WILL NOT SING if they cant hear themselves.
With fifty plus birds in an estimated 8X10 foot room, I sure hope a
selling point for these Canaries is not the claim that they will sing.
Because without being isolated from the small & large Parrots, WHICH
IS STANDARD, these birds cannot hear their own song. Sad.
THREE: I don’t think the ownership tells their clientele what it
takes to have a bird as a pet. Birds need more than a fabulous cage.
I say this because I was offered, on every occasion, a look at bird
they had available with a «re homing fee». I was told by one employee
that they had «a ton» of these birds available. This suggests to me
that the ownership does not know the importance of NOT selling to
impulse buyers. And suggests, as well, that the new bird owners
walking out of this store are not properly educated, BEFORE THEY BUY,
on what it takes to properly care for a bird. And to the defense of
the owners, if you don’t know it and live it, informing a potential
owner & «teaching» it is probably not an option. To have a running
inventory of birds you sold, coming back to you because the owners no
longer want the challenge, is just bad business. And sadly, the birds
suffer.
I am writing this in order to bring to light the need for compassion
in selling live birds. I am writing in an attempt to prompt ownership
to GIVE THEM MORE SPACE. Get your song birds away from the constant
(but totally normal) squealing, shrieking & chatting of parrots. Your
canaries are beautiful, but no doubt, miserable surrounded by nothing
but noise. Your «hand-​fed» babies need to be handled more. They need
proper-​sized perches (widths over ¾ inch are too big for baby
conures, Indian ring necks & other small parrots). And more than two
to a cage (the size you have) is a weak attempt to give them proper
living space.
And for goodness sake, hire a groomer once a week to trim beaks, file
nails. Merely clipping wings, which seem to be the only «grooming»
obvious to me, does not cut it.
I know the money making part of this business may be in the
maintenance & supplies that come AFTER the purchase of the bird. But,
please, consider how you do business & know that the LIVE INVENTORY is
the only reason there’s repeat business for other products. Consider
having one of each cage and/​or stand available in your showroom, stock
the rest in the back.
Birds are not like boxes that can be stacked on top of eachother.
Please think about it.

I brought my girlfriend in to look at birds and we purchased a baby quaker parrot with all the fixin’s for her at a reasonable price… the bird is healthy, happy and adorable. I was impressed with the knowledge level of the staff, and we were able to speak directly with the person responsible for feeding the chicks so when our bird transitioned to her home it was seamless. We are more than pleased with this retailer.

It’s just a totally amazing bird store and as the name says, «Everything for the Birds.»
Even if you don’t have a bird or are not interested in buying a bird, it’s still a great place to wonder in and take a look around. I’ve honestly never seen such a variety and with everything totally dedicated to birds. Just looking at all the birds is in and of itself pleasurable as well as joyful.

Great selection in supplies and baby birds, friendly knowledgeable staff and reasonable prices. Hard to go wrong here.