Absolutely gorgeous and extremely smart creatures. They generally bond with one care giver and when that person dies it really is a traumatic event for the bird.
Birds that are traumatized pick out their feathers and look terrible. You can tell from the videos of their birds that they are well looked after.
This organization (and those like it) are fantastic!
In the northeastern towns of la county there entire flocks of wild parrots flying around, that are escaped or freed pet parrots or descendants from such pet parrots.
I guess parrots would not survive in the wild in canada, but if you have parrot you can no longer care for, maybe you could consider releasing it in the la foothills. He will have friends there.
Maybe is the key word here. I am not a parrot expert.
Oh yes, finally something I can comment on!
I’m a wildlife veterinarian, parrots were always my favourite animals and growing up I wanted to become a “parrot vet”.
Throughout my studies and work experience I discovered so many heartbreaking things about these animals that instead I chose to dedicate myself to the wild.
The parrot crisis is much bigger than what the article says. We are living a period where parrots are struggling to survive in their native range, we are getting more knowledge on how sick they get in captivity (some parrots literally self-mutilate for lack of stimulation) and we are getting bigger and bigger colonies of invasive species (mostly monk and ring neck parakeet) throughout the US and the EU. I’ve actually been working on a documentary on this topic for the past two years, if you are interested I can share it when I’m done. In the meantime I suggest you reaching out to
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[ 1.8 ms ] story [ 33.8 ms ] threadBirds that are traumatized pick out their feathers and look terrible. You can tell from the videos of their birds that they are well looked after.
This organization (and those like it) are fantastic!
I guess parrots would not survive in the wild in canada, but if you have parrot you can no longer care for, maybe you could consider releasing it in the la foothills. He will have friends there.
Maybe is the key word here. I am not a parrot expert.
https://www.allianceforparrots.org/