The wood is all pine and hardwood dowels so it is bird safe. The white boards are melamine coated but are edged in pine so any chewing would be on the pine, the white was just an easy board to clean. This one could hold a CAG or a flock of CAG's no problem, I don't build anything that's not overbuilt lol. I plan to use the same size base as it sits on a rolling cuboard that I also built, and is sized so that I can roll the playstand anywhere on the main floor of our house.
