Hello,
just found this forum in my search for information on amazon parrots.
I currently have 2 adopted birds, a 15yr old milligold macaw (assumed female) Lucy and a 30+yr old moluccan2 (assumed male)Marco that i have have for around a year and a half or so. they came home within a week or so of each other but the Milligold came first, my boyfriend and I worked with her at the rescue facility for about a month after making the decision to adopt her and having visited her for a few weeks leading up to the decision, so she was our first bird other than each having had a cockatiel as a child. and then the day we went to go bring home Lucy, Marco had been surrendered that morning, and i fell in love with him so we adopted him too, since at the time the macaw did NOT like me.
i am now interested in a third bird, we did have a old lady yellow collar macaw for about a year, she had a lot of health issues and was quite old and had been on a bad diet so we took her in knowing she wouldn't live very long, and she had a good final year of all the treats she wanted and human affection on her terms. but she recently passed and now I'm missing that smaller counterpart to the flock.
i am also interested to learn about free flight with older birds if anyone has experience. the only people i have been able to talk to about free flight have trained the birds from the time they where being hand fed and did the hand feeding themselves. i am open to the possibility of getting a baby bird, but it is much more in my heart to get another rescue. especially as it makes me very nervous that the birds will out live me and i won't have anyone to take over the care of them for me.
Looking forward to learning and sharing with everyone here.
just found this forum in my search for information on amazon parrots.
I currently have 2 adopted birds, a 15yr old milligold macaw (assumed female) Lucy and a 30+yr old moluccan2 (assumed male)Marco that i have have for around a year and a half or so. they came home within a week or so of each other but the Milligold came first, my boyfriend and I worked with her at the rescue facility for about a month after making the decision to adopt her and having visited her for a few weeks leading up to the decision, so she was our first bird other than each having had a cockatiel as a child. and then the day we went to go bring home Lucy, Marco had been surrendered that morning, and i fell in love with him so we adopted him too, since at the time the macaw did NOT like me.
i am now interested in a third bird, we did have a old lady yellow collar macaw for about a year, she had a lot of health issues and was quite old and had been on a bad diet so we took her in knowing she wouldn't live very long, and she had a good final year of all the treats she wanted and human affection on her terms. but she recently passed and now I'm missing that smaller counterpart to the flock.
i am also interested to learn about free flight with older birds if anyone has experience. the only people i have been able to talk to about free flight have trained the birds from the time they where being hand fed and did the hand feeding themselves. i am open to the possibility of getting a baby bird, but it is much more in my heart to get another rescue. especially as it makes me very nervous that the birds will out live me and i won't have anyone to take over the care of them for me.
Looking forward to learning and sharing with everyone here.
