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Bird Toy Safety

Birds are curious creatures. They love to inspect, taste, and chew anything that crosses their path. Toy parts are no different. However, what’s safe for one bird, may not be safe for another. We can only guide you. Some parts that start out being safe, may become unsafe over time.

Please protect your bird by:

Inspecting all toys regularly.

Remove any rusted parts.

Remove or cut back any frayed ends, keeping cotton strands very short.

Keep quick links closed.

Remove any toys or parts that have sharp edges.

To avoid any injuries make sure that your birds entire body can fit through any loops or rings, regardless of what they are made of.

The ultimate responsibility lies with you, the bird’s guardian/owner to keep your bird safe!

Know your bird!

Safe & Un Safe Wood

Bad Wood

Safe Wood

ALDER - red alder -Alder Buckthorn	ACACIA - Silk Tree would be in this group
ANDROMEDA -Pieris, Lily of the Valley shrub	APPLE -(Insecticide residue likely cause for periodic issues)
APRICOT	AILANTHUS - Tree of Heaven
ARROWHEAD VINE	ALDER - white alder
AUSTRALIAN FLAME TREE	ALMOND
AUSTRALIAN UMBRELLA TREE	ARALIA - Fatsia japonica
AVACADO	ASH - Fraxinus
AZALEA - Related to Rhododendron	ASPEN - Populus
BANEBERRY - Actaea	BAMBOO
BEANS -castor, horse, fava, broad, glory, scarlet runner	BARBERRY- Berberis
BLACK LOCUST - Robinia	BIRCH
BOX ELDER	BEECH - Fagus
BOXWOOD - Buxus	BOIS D'ARC - horse apple tree
BUCKTHORN - Cascara / Alder Buckthorn	BOTTLE BRUSH
BRACKEN FERN	BUTTERFLY BUSH
BURDOCK	CAMELLIA
CACAO	CITRUS-(lime, kumquat, grapefruit, orange, lemon)
CAMEL BUSH - Trichodesma	CORK - (not wood from cork oak, but cork)
CANARY BIRD BUSH - Crotalaria	CORN PLANTS
CANNABIS	COTTONWOOD - Populus
CASTOR BEAN	CRABAPPLE - Malus
CEDAR - Thuja, Chamaecyparis, Cupressus	CRAPE MYRTLE -(not the same as myrtle)
CHALICE - trumpet vine	DATE
CHERRY see comments below	DOGWOOD - Cornus
CHINA BERRY TREE - Melia / Texas umbrella tree	DOUGLAS FIR - Pseudotsuga
CHINESE MAGNOLIA - uncertain for safety	DRACAENA
CHINESE POPCORN / TALLOW	ELM - Ulmus
CHINESE SNAKE TREE - Laquer plant	ESCALLONIA
COMMON SAGE	EUCALYPTUS
CORIANDER - Cilantro	FIG
DATURA	FIR - genus Abies
DAPHNE - it's the berries	GINKGO
DATURA STRAMONIUM - Brugmansia - angel's trumpet	GRAPE VINES
DIEFFENBACHIA	GRAPE PALM
ELDERBERRY	GUAVA
	HACKBERRY
EUONYMUS - Includes burning bush and more	HAWTHORN - Crataegus
EUPHORBIA	HIBISCUS
FELT PLANT - Kalancho baharensis	HICKORY
FLAME TREE	IRONWOOD - apparently toxic leaves
FIRETHORN - Pyracantha	JADE PLANT
FLAME TREE - Brachychiton / Sterculia	KALANCHOE
FOXGLOVE - Digitalis (pharmaceutical source)	LARCH - Larix
GOLDEN CHAIN TREE - Laburnum	LILAC - Syringa
GROUND CHERRY	MADRONA / MADRONE - Arbutus
CROWN OF THORNS	MAGNOLIA
HEATHS	MAPLE - Acer
HEMLOCK - Tsuga	MANZANITA - Arctostaphylos
HOLLY - Ilex	MESQUITE - remove sharp parts
HONEY LOCUST - Gleditsia	MIMOSA
HORSE CHESTNUT - Aesculus	MOCK ORANGE - Phladelphus
HUCKLEBERRY - leaves bad: evergreen & deciduous	MOUNTAIN ASH - Sorbus
HYDRANGEA	MULBERRY - Morus
JASMINE	NANDINA -common name is heavenly bamboo
JUNIPER - Juniperus	NORFOLK ISLAND PINE - Araucaria
KALMIA: also called Mountain Laurel	NUT TREES - exclude chestnut
KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE	ORANGE - several sources lean toward safe
LANTANA - red sage	OREGON GRAPE - Mahonia
LAUREL - Prunus	PALM
LEUCOTHOE	PAPAYA
LUPINE	PEAR
MANGO - (fruit okay: not wood or leaves)	PECAN
MEXICAN BREADFRUIT	PINE - Pinus: see Pine paragraph below
MOCK ORANGE	PHOTINIA
MONSTERA - big hunker of a house plant	POPLAR - Populus
MOUNTAIN LAUREL - Kalmia latifolia	PUSSY WILLOW - Salix
MYRTLE - broadleaf evergreen, not crape myrtle	RAPHIOLEPSIS - Indian Hawthorn
NECTARINE	RIBBONWOOD
NUTMEG	ROSE - Rosa
OAK - Quercus - all parts / tannins	RUBBER PLANT - Ficus elastica
MISTLETOE	RUSSIAN OLIVE
OLEANDER	SASSAFRAS
PEACH	SILK TREE
PEAR - some sources lean toward safe	SPIRAEA
PENCILTREE	SPRUCE - Picea
PITCH PINE	STAGHORN SUMAC - see Sumac paragraph
PLUM	STRAWBERRY TREE - Arbutus like Madrone
PRARIE OAK - safety uncertain	SWEET GUM
PRIVET	SYCAMORE
RAIN TREE	THURLOW
RED MAPLE	TREE FERN
RED SAGE - Lantana	VIBURNUM
REDWOOD - Sequiadendron, Metasequoia, Sequoia	VINE MAPLE - Acer
RHODODENDRON	WEEPING WILLOW - Salix
RHUBARB	WIEGELA
SAND BOX TREE - sap was used to poison fish	YUCCA
SOLANUM - Jerusalem cherry or pepino
SOPHORA - includes Japanese pagoda tree
SUMAC - not all sumacs are bad: see paragraphs
TOBACCO
TANSY
TOMATO
UMBRELLA TREE
WALNUT
WEEPING FIG - Ficus benjamina > Ficus elastica safe
WHITE CEDAR - China
WITCH HAZEL - Hamamelis
WISTERIA
YEW - Taxus

Lead is extremely toxic to birds. It can be found in the following:

Older Lead-Based Paints	Drapery and Fishing Weights
Stained Glass Caulking	Costume Jewelry
Some Types of Screens/Wires	Air Rifle Pellets
Antiques	Light Bulb Bases
Batteries	Improperly Treated Drinking Water
Bone Meal Products	Bullets and Shotgun Shot
Dolomite	Wine and Champaign Bottle Seal Foil
Leaded Glass Ornaments	Hardware Cloth
Lead-Frame Doors/Windows	Mirror Backing
Putty	Old Plaster
Some Zippers	Sheetrock
Solder	Unglazed Ceramics
Linoleum	Tiffany Lamps
Bells with Lead Clappers	Contaminated Cuttlefish Bone
Some Lubricants	Planting Seeds Coated with Lead Arsenate

If you would like to see additions made to the list above

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The more that people are aware of. The safer our feathered friends will be.