I’m setting here working on the computer and I look over to see how Ozzie is doing. The parrots are a lot like small children, if they’re too quiet, you need to check on them. And when I look, Ozzie’s not in her cage! So I start looking to see if she’s jumped off on the floor and in need of rescue. Finally I hear a squawk and what do I see?
Apparently she’d decided to take a nap in the sheet I use to cover her cage. Maybe the world’s just a bit too much for Ozzie at times.
No, not the cheesy 1979 movie. But the Quakers have shown up in Amityville, Long Island, NY. Read the Whole Thing and be sure to check out the size of that nest!
Some of the folks out there may remember Willie the Hero Quaker parrot. For those who don’t, Willie’s a Quaker in Colorado and when his companion left the room for a moment, the toddler she was babysitting started to choke and Willie started screaming, “Mama! Baby! Mama! Baby!” She ran back in, did the Heimlich on the child and everyone lived happily ever after.
The Red Cross gave Willie an award recently and Fox News interviewed Willie and his companion. Just like my two, Willie was not about to say a word. But it’s kind of fun watching him poop on the arm of the chair.
No worries, this isn’t going to be another post about getting Iggy down off the curtain rod again. It’s about efforts to save the kakapo.
The kakapo is a large (about nine pounds) and flightless parrot. It also has lost pretty much semblance of an effective fight or flight mechanism. As you can imagine, once man came on the scene, a large bird that basically just sets there and looks at you would become known as just one thing, lunch. And so most of the kakapos went down European gullets.
Fortunately, New Zealand has begun a program to save the kakopa and there are now more than 100. In fact there are more than 30 chicks currently being raised. And an American zoologist has been providing medical assistance to the program.
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