I changed my previous high-rating review of this after some more research as well as a horrifying experience. The Material is standard cloth/string and a MAJOR hazard for bird feet and talons once the material starts to wear. 2 days ago my Cockatiel got its' front-right talon trapped in some of the material, freaked out, and broke most of the nail clean off, blood everywhere and on the poor bird too. Luckily it clotted well enough but it traumatized her for a couple of days and I took it out as soon as I realized that's what happened, and will not be using it again. She's doing better now, but her front right claw is noticably broken and a bit swollen still.

Beware materials like this when your bird is unsupervised!

Great to use as out of the cage perching u can configure them to any way you want. I have about six of them and plan on getting more my birds love them.

This is perch is a favorite of all my budgies, both English and American Budgies seem to choose this one most often especially to sleep on. I now have purchased 3 of these.

I love this! I ordered the longest size, and the branch was much bigger around than expected, but my gold cap conure loooves it. It took her a while to get used to it, but it's now her preferred way in and out of her cage. I attach one end to her play structure on top of her cage and one end inside so she can easily climb in and out of her cage. I love that it's flexible and somewhat keeps its shape when you pose it. It's starting to show some wear and tear after a few weeks of her nails and beak going at it, but for $8, I'll happily replace it when it starts to get ratty. I also definitely plan on buying more once I install some wall perches. I love the idea of making a little booda branch trail for her to climb between perches.

10/10, recommend to anyone, and I plan on buying more again soon.

These are nice, comfy perches that are good for the birds and their feets...comfy feets are important to birdies! These perches put a lot less pressure on the feet when birds stand on them, and that prevents callouses from forming. My goffin's cockatoo, a rescue, has callouses on the bottom of his feet from his home before he was rescued. The soft perches made from rope are a great solution to help heal those feet and prevent it from happening again, of course, along with a variety of sizes and shapes of perches too.

They do have a tendency to chew on the strings of the larger ones and pull them out and unravel the string. Also, my cockatoo can unscrew them, no matter how tightly I screw them in, and then he breaks the plastic prongs on the inside. Right now, we have put duct tape over the ends so he can't get to them, because duct tape is hard to chew off because of the cloth/string inside it. It's working for now.

My conure (as shown in the picture, absolutely loves rope perches. But as you can see, he also loves to chew on them. So I only let the birds use the rope perches on the outside of their cages, so I'm always supervising when they use them, for fear they might get their feet or beak stuck in the loose ropes they chew on. Note this isn't really a flaw in the manufacturering of the product--it's just a bird thing! The rope perches are well made.

Now, the plastic screw holders, that's a bit different. Macaws and cockatoos in particular, who have the more powerful beaks, could easily snap these tops quite easily. I don't know if metal ones would be an improvement, but they'd have to be the right kind of screw tops if they were metal anyway. My cockatoo did break one...

That said, these perches are absolutely my conure's favorite--he loves them, and I have them all over the outside of his cage to play with. And if you get the longer ones, you can twist the and curve them and put them in all sorts of configurations for birds to play and climb on.

I'll keep buying in all different sizes and shapes and making lots of fun toys and perches for my four birds!