Every bird deserves a flock.
This is Mofu — loud, lovable, and looking for friends.
Parrots, cockatiels, budgies and lovebirds like Mofu are flock animals — yet most spend the workday alone. LonelyBirds connects your bird with a mutually-approved companion over live video, right by the cage, while you're away.
You're on the wire!
We'll email you when the flock is ready — and Mofu says thank you. No spam, ever.
No video is ever stored. Streams are ephemeral by design.
The quiet problem
Social animals, solitary days
Cameras and treat dispensers serve the owner. Nothing on the market serves the bird's own need for company — and a second bird is often impossible for reasons of cost, space, or quarantine.
20M+
companion birds are kept as pets in the United States alone.
Estimate drawn from AVMA pet-ownership surveys8+ hrs
of a typical workday a companion bird spends with no flock at all.
The gap LonelyBirds exists to close~1 in 10
captive parrots show feather-plucking, a stress behaviour associated with isolation.
Reported in published avian-behaviour researchFigures are honest estimates from ownership surveys and veterinary behaviour literature, not our own studies — we cite them to size the problem, not to overstate it.
How it works
An old phone, a new friend
Three steps from a drawer-bound iPhone to a bird with a standing social calendar.
1
Perch an old phone by the cage
Any spare iPhone or iPad becomes your bird's companion terminal. Pair it once with a 6-digit code — no typing on the old device, ever again.
2
Match with a companion
Browse birds of the same species whose schedules overlap with yours. Both owners must approve before the two birds can ever meet — no exceptions.
3
Sessions, scheduled or on demand
Live video flows between the two perches during the windows you set — or start one from work in seconds when your bird seems restless. Peek in any time.
Trust & safety
Your bird, your rules
A camera pointed at your home earns trust by design, not by promise. These four are structural — they can't be switched off, by us or anyone else.
Mutual consent, always
No session can start until both owners have approved the connection. One accept is never enough — the request simply waits.
No video ever stored
Streams travel peer-to-peer between the two perches. Our servers only carry the handshake — there is no recording to leak, subpoena, or sell.
Instant block
End a session, pause a connection, or block a partner in one tap. A block cuts everything immediately — no cooldown, no questions.
Owner always in control
Sessions run only inside the availability windows you set, end automatically at the boundary, and you can watch any live session from your phone.
Species roadmap
Birds first, on purpose
Birds vocalise and genuinely respond to on-screen companions, so that's where we start — and prove it works before anyone else joins the flock.
Birds
Budgies, cockatiels, lovebirds, parrots, canaries
NowCats
Window-watchers welcome
Coming laterDogs
For the howl-alongs
Coming laterRabbits
Quiet company counts too
Coming laterGive your bird a flock of their own
Join the waitlist and be first through the door when LonelyBirds opens. Mofu's saving a spot on the wire.
Join the waitlistFree to join · No spam · No video ever stored