Tom

out past the east edge of GTA, a few minutes past Oshawa is Bowmanville Veterinary Clinic. They have specializations in exotics, birds, reptiles. They are around 1 kilometre from where the Bowmanville Zoo was, which had elephants and tigers. The zoo was shut down a few years back. https://www.bowmanvilleveterinaryclinic.com/

Let me add something else: Wikipedia is amazing for research for animals and plants. Look a living creature up by species/name, and look at the taxonomy/scientific classification to learn about related things.

An example Avocado (P. americana) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado keep clicking up: Persea, Lauraceae, Laurales, Magnoliids. If you look at Magnoliids wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnoliids) you'll see it mentions "magnolias, nutmeg, bay laurel, cinnamon, avocado, black pepper, tulip tree". Same thing can be done with other toxics, chocolate/cacao plant, etcetera. I don't imagine most people will reach for cinnamon sticks or nutmeg to give birds, but what I'm saying is using wikipedia for research to help learn about things related to other things, for the benefit of our feathered friends. It also works by looking at the different species and varieties of birds, like I recently learned the type of conure that was native to where I lived in Caribbean is the brown-throated conure. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-throated_parakeet)

I love looking up dog species on wikipedia too... sorry I'm going far afield from foods, just providing these as research ideas.

I'm preparing to take in a new bird after 2-3 years of having zero birds. Previously, I had birds for several decades. The only accident we had over the years was early 2000s, one bird nibbled on a real stained-glass window decoration, which sadly had lead in the metal and she became lead-poisoned. Teflon was been used in the house, but always kept birds far from the kitchen, and sometimes they flew into the kitchen but would be taken out if cooking. Kinda good policy to take them out so they don't accidentally land on a stove while it's on. Once or twice a bird wanted to play with my hands while I was washing dishes in sink, and the bird thought the soap suds were solid so they stepped and blooped into the soapy water, but got lifted out instantly. I write these bits as confirmation, re peripheral kitchen risks, but also, look-up EVERYTHING. That's a good policy, doubt and re-doubt and re-research to ensure everything given is healthy. :)