DIY Bird

Jazzy is very mechanically minded. She loves to undo nuts and bolts and will happily spend hours doing so. She has a large, and growing, set of stainless steel nuts and bolts, washers, and loops with screw fastening pins. She has become so proficient at undoing them quickly that it has forced us to be quite imaginative about some of the configurations of these metal bits.In this setup she has a straight bolt with a nut on the end and threaded through it are two wooden stars with a loop bolt sandwiched in the middle.

In order to undo the screw pin, Jazzy first of all grips the pin in her beak and twists with some force to loosen it.

Then she uses her tongue to rotate the loosened pin until it is free.

Since she manipulates the metal parts in her mouth, it's extremely important that all of them be made of stainless steel so that she doesn't get metal poisoning over time.

After she has removed the pin, her most favorite entertainment is to rotate it and twirl it a bit like a baton in her foot, back and forth, feeling every contour and screw thread with her tongue.
And finally comes the piece de resistance: she leans over the edge of the table and drops it to the bare floor with a very satisfying clang.