Over the last dozen or so years,  breeders and pet stores have glutted the market with baby parrots.

These babies are now showing up as adults in thousands of shelters/rescues, given up because as they mature, many people are unprepared for the changes that occur in a fully mature parrot, and can't handle them.

We need to find homes for THOSE birds and stop breeding more babies.

I too was caught up in many of the "myths" that most breeders and pet stores perpetrate. 

I made all the mistakes. 

I bought from breeders. I bought from pet stores. I bought from bird fairs.
Why???

Because I didn't KNOW any better. 

So don't feel alone, many of us have parrots that we bought as babies and I'm not here to condemn you or chastise you. 

My goal is to do what I wish someone had done for me years ago,  educate others about the plight and needs of all those birds languishing away in shelters and rescue's, just waiting for homes.

There are a few good bird boards out there, but unfortunately there are also a lot of breeder oriented boards, who encourage and support both breeding and buying and selling of parrots. I feel we need more boards that address both the positive AND negative aspects of having a companion parrot and are willing to take a hard stance on what we believe in, NO BREEDING, NO BUYING OR SELLING OF PARROTS..and after a lot of thought and consideration, I decided to create this website and message board because I want to encompass ALL species of parrots, for rescues are over-flowing with birds from budgies to macaws. 

I believe that the smaller birds are often treated as "throw away birds" that people abandon when they decide to "upgrade" to a larger bird. They are often found to be too noisy or messy.  So much emphasis is placed on the "big" birds, these little guys are often overlooked and there are as many, and in most rescues, MORE of the small birds being dropped off or given away than any of the larger species.  Let's not forget about them!

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