Pastelsponge15
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I know I have already posted a thread in the Macaw forum today, but my baby is too adorable to not share pictures of!
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Wilson is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing.
Birdman666
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Why, when I heard the name WILSON, was I was picturing a volleyball with tail feathers glued to it... 
Welcome to the forum.
Welcome to the forum.
henpecked
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Welcome to the forum. Where in Fla are you? I'm south of Tampa. Wilson doesn't appear to have a USDA quarantine band, what makes you think he's an import? Was he a pet bird someone brought in? Did he come from a rescue?
Allee
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Wilson is gorgeous, thanks for sharing his photos! Love his enclosure!
Birdman666
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- Sep 18, 2013
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- Presently have six Greenwing Macaw (17 yo), Red Fronted Macaw (12 yo), Red Lored Amazon (17 y.o.), Lilac Crowned Amazon (about 43 y.o.) and a Congo African Grey (11 y.o.)
Panama Amazon (1 Y.O.)
Wilson looks young to me.
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Pastelsponge15
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He does have a band, and that's why I assume he's an import. I asked his Vet and she confirmed that it was a quarantine band, because We were wondering if the numbers/letters could give us an idea of where he's from and his sex. (They couldn't.)
Those just aren't very high quality pictures. It sits really low on his right foot, and it's roughly the same color as his foot.
He did come from a rescue, and when we asked why he had the band, they told us what it was.
I'm in Cocoa Beach.
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Pastelsponge15
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He's about 15. There are some places where his feathers don't look all the way grown in, and that's because those areas are all scar tissue and any feathers that do grow in are tiny, practically down, and fall out pretty immediately.
henpecked
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If he has a quarantine band (USDA open band) then he's probably alot older than 15. After about 1982 the only CITES listed birds passing though quarantine where pets. How much does he weigh? Know his history?
henpecked
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PM me the band numbers and i'll tell you what little i can find out. Dealing with the USDA is a pain in the fanny. However the letters are a code for what quarantine station he past though (survived). The year might be trouble but who knows.
Birdman666
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- Sep 18, 2013
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- Presently have six Greenwing Macaw (17 yo), Red Fronted Macaw (12 yo), Red Lored Amazon (17 y.o.), Lilac Crowned Amazon (about 43 y.o.) and a Congo African Grey (11 y.o.)
Panama Amazon (1 Y.O.)
Sounds to me like he may have plucked that area, or been housed with a bird who plucked him at one time...
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