One thing about the food dish. It can LOOK very full but it may just be a lot of hulls and chaff from the eaten seed. I used to take the food cup out once a day and just blow the hulls out........much to the chagrin of my wife. Wimmins!! I suppose taking it outside would have been better.
On overheating non stick cook ware as mentioned above. That can create gasses that are very toxic to birds.
I read those gasses from teflon pans are likely fairly toxic to people as well, that out-gassing occurs during cooking of bacon, really realtively low heats. In a small room it can cause something called "teflon flu".
We got rid of all our non-stick pans, bought steel ones.
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Cast iron beats all, except for cleanup.
I would also mention that Febreze is something that you wouldn't think of that causes breathing problems for pet birds - as is ANY kind of smoke. A few different experiences with various household aerosols are posted here: http://www.birdsandmore.com/healthWarnings.html - also if you share food with your pet bird, ensure it has no salt, they have no mechanism for removing it from the bloodstream. (unless you're keeping a marine bird) Way way more info than you asked for, really. Sorry.
And now I convince my hubby we need a set of All-Clad for family health and a few more pieces of Lodge cast iron..
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All my good pans are teflon coated. Time to get some of those new ceramic coated pans.
I named the bird Riley and I'm reasonably sure it's a female. She still doesn't want anything to do with me. I've been offering her millet as a treat but she's not comfortable taking it even with my hand on the other end of a large millet spray. I ordered a much larger cage and I'm hoping that she will calm down more when she doesn't feel like I'm invading her space.
Tanner is doing better except for when Riley flutters around in the cage. Then he wants to chase. He isn't reacting as much to the bird chirping so I think he'll do better about the fluttering over time too. I'm making him lay down on his bed and praising/treats when I see him relax.
Birds really take time, like years. You've got to be STILL. Birds that have never known the hand except as something that takes them from their friends are hard to win over.
Grabbing her and deciding that you are going to "teach her you mean no harm" is unlikely to be successful.
It's harder to tell on young birds, but the "cere"; the waxy area above the beak is your sexing indicator. Females will have a very pale blue to whitish cere, males a much darker blue. Breeding condition females have a very dark brown cere. My Great Uncle raised budgies for years and his sexing technique (that was almost never wrong) was to stick his hand in the nest box and whatever babies were latched onto his hand when he pulled it out were the females! (Meaning females are a bit more challenging in the taming area.)
Here is a pic of a male and female at 5 weeks old. Female on the left has whitish circles around her nostrils and cere is more bluish. Male on right has more purple-y cere minus the white.
By the way, if you've never seen the difference between a show-type budgie and our usual pet-type:
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It's harder to tell on young birds, but the "cere"; the waxy area above the beak is your sexing indicator. Females will have a very pale blue to whitish cere, males a much darker blue. Breeding condition females have a very dark brown cere. My Great Uncle raised budgies for years and his sexing technique (that was almost never wrong) was to stick his hand in the nest box and whatever babies were latched onto his hand when he pulled it out were the females! (Meaning females are a bit more challenging in the taming area.)
Here is a pic of a male and female at 5 weeks old. Female on the left has whitish circles around her nostrils and cere is more bluish. Male on right has more purple-y cere minus the white.
By the way, if you've never seen the difference between a show-type budgie and our usual pet-type:
Folks may not realize or believe that this last LINK shows a real-life Budgie/Parakeet, but it DOES -- Give me a healthy Pet Quality male every time ... In my experience, the cocks tame more easily & talk more readily, and of course they can never get egg-bound.
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Re: Hand taming Budgies/Parakeets?
Wimmins!! I suppose taking it outside would have been better. 
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