How to Prepare Yourself for Rescue Work
Senegal Parrot waving “hello.”
If you dream of opening your own parrot rescue or sanctuary (and let’s be honest, it crosses the minds of a lot of us once we’ve seen how birds suffer in the wrong environments!), the most important step of all is to get yourself ready. Many owners find that they are not suited mentally, physically, or emotionally.
What is the difference, first of all, between a parrot rescue and a parrot sanctuary? A rescue typically rehabilitates an ...
Using Your Energy When Working with Birds
African Grey
Energy is very important to parrots and how they react to us. Our birds can sense our every mood change, reading both your body language and the way you look to them in UV. They can perceive many more colours than we can, and – as the Island Parrot Sanctuary once put it to me – because of that, they know you better than you know yourself. They can see your mood.
One of the things I try and do with new or ...
How to Import Pet Birds Into the U.S.A. – the Complete Saga.
Senegal parrot in his IATA-approved travel box.
A lot of people want to know how to import pet birds into the U.S.A. (in my case from the UK), and having recently experienced this, I can tell you bringing a parrot or finch into the country is not easy or cheap. But it will be utterly worth it if you decide to go through with it, for everyone involved.
I’ll do my best to explain!
To ...