pet bird; cage bird
A bird kept as a pet or in a cage, as opposed to a wild bird (野鳥).
See also: 野鳥
祖母は飼い鳥に毎日話しかけている。
My grandmother talks to her pet bird every day.
飼い鳥と野鳥では餌の種類が違う。
The type of food differs between cage birds and wild birds.
野鳥 refers to birds living freely in the wild, while 飼い鳥 refers to birds kept as pets or livestock.
Standard spelling with okurigana; the most common written form.
Abbreviated kanji spelling without okurigana; seen in some contexts but less common.
Compound of 飼い (kai, 'keeping, raising') + 鳥 (tori, 'bird'), with rendaku voicing of tori to dori.