What we cover
Cockatiel Foundation is built around the ordinary decisions that shape daily life with a bird. Those are the things owners actually adjust week to week, and the things that make a household feel calm or chaotic.
- Home setup: cage size, perch variety, placement, and cleaning routine
- Food routines: a daily plate, portions, safe fresh foods, and the do-not-feed list
- Enrichment: shreddables, foraging, toy rotation, and short play sessions
- Gentle training: trust building, step-up, and target work without a wrestling match
- Everyday safety: bird-proofing a room before out-of-cage time
- Species fit: what living with a cockatiel is really like before you commit
What we deliberately leave out
The word "foundation" here means a base of practical knowledge. It does not mean a registered charity or a nonprofit, we do not solicit donations, and we are not a rescue, a sanctuary, a breeder, or a shop.
- Diagnosis, symptom checking, and anything that needs a bird examined in person
- Medication, dosages, and treatment protocols
- Breeding, incubation, and hand-feeding chicks
- Emergency care, which belongs with an avian vet and not with a website
That boundary is deliberate. A guide can describe a known household hazard. It cannot tell you what is wrong with the bird in front of you.
Who this is for
Mostly new owners in their first year, who want a plain-language plan instead of forty conflicting forum threads. It also suits owners upgrading a setup they inherited, and people still deciding whether a cockatiel fits their home at all.
If you are a breeder, a rehabber, or a professional looking for clinical depth, this is not the right library. We write for the hobby layer and say so on every page.
Who writes it
Everything is published under one desk byline: the Cockatiel Foundation editors. It is a working name, not a stand-in for a single named expert, and no invented biography sits behind it.
The reasoning, along with the review schedule and the list of things this site refuses to print, is set out on how this site is written. The short form: a list of sources you can open beats a credential you cannot check.
The standing references behind the library
These are the bodies safety-relevant material gets read against before it goes up, whichever guide you land on. Individual pages name whichever of them applies at the foot of the page.
Nobody is paying us to say anything
Nothing on this site is advertising, sponsorship, or an affiliate link, and today the bill is a domain and static hosting paid out of pocket. That is the reason a guide tells you what to look for in a cage rather than which cage to buy: there is no commission riding on the answer either way.
Should any of that change, the standards page says so first and the page carrying it gets labeled.
Tell us when we get it wrong
Corrections go to [email protected]. Send the page URL and the part you think is off. Factual errors get fixed and the page's review date moves. A claim we cannot stand up comes down rather than staying online.
Return to the Cockatiel Foundation homepage for the full guide library, or use the contact page for anything else.