Safe Woods

Safe natural wood branches for making perches for your birds include the following:

Apple Arbutus Ash Aspen Beech Birch Cottonwood Crabapple Dogwood Elm Fir

Hawthorn Larch Magnolia Manzanita Mulberry Pear Pine Poplar Sequoia (redwood) Willow

NEVER use apricot, cherry, peach, prune, plum or nectarine wood. These trees all belong to the Prunus species. They contain cyanogenic glycosides which release cyanide if ingested.

Unsafe Toxic Plants
Plants which are listed as poisonous towards humans and animals should be considered potentially toxic to your bird. Some avian species, however, have reportedly died from ingesting a toxic plant, while others have experienced no untoward effects. The following plants should all be considered potentially toxic to birds:

Amaryllis Avocado Azalea Black locust Buckthorn Buttercup Cacti Caladium Calla lily Castor bean Cherry Clematis Daffodil Daphne Datura stramonium (Angel's trumpet) Delphinium Dieffenbachia Elephant's ear English ivy Euphorbia cactus Fig (Weeping fig) Foxglove Holly Horse chestnut Hyacinth Hydrangea Iris

Jack-in-the-pulpit Jerusalem cherry Juniper Larkspur Lily-of-the valley Lobelia Marihuana Mistletoe Monkshood Narcissus Nightshade Oleander Philodendron Poinsettia Pokeweed Potato (sprouts, green skins) Pothos Privet Rhodendron Rhubarb Skunk cabbage Snowdrop Tobacco Virginia creeper Weeping fig Wisteria Yew