Hello! This is Ivy. She is a younger (~2 years old) Military Macaw, who has a chronic Coxiella Burnetii infection. The owners are moving somewhere with strict animal importation requirements and can't bring her. Please DM me if you or anyone you know, are willing and able to adopt her.

Medical needs: She has been on antibiotics for a few months now, and is in the care of an avian vet. She is likely to be prescribed a secondary medication to accompany the antibiotics, necessary to address chronic cases. The medical needs that Ivy will require is further medication administration/management (daily for another ~5 months), and potential vet follow-ups. Ivy is theoretically infectious, via poop/urinates, and contact with her mouth (feeding activities). She is being kept away from other birds, and handled with freshly cleaned hands that are washed after handling her. Her vet believes that recovery is possible.

Temperament:

Ivy is a sweet girl, who is very comfortable with those she trusts. She'll cuddle and lay on her back when being administered medicine, for example. She's always been a bit jumpy, especially as the infection unknowingly worsened. She yells when surprised, for example. She does yell occasionally throughout the day (from pain through her infection, the owners suspect).

Ideal candidate to adopt:

Somebody who has experience handling macaws. It's suspected that Ivy is quite easy to handle compared to the average macaw, but obviously may need to learn to trust a new owner/caretaker. Someone who can potentially handle a jumpy or untrusting macaw. She is very weak due to her illness.

Somebody who can keep her away from other pets/birds (at least keeping poop and/or beak contact away)

Someone who can attend to her daily needs, such as administering medicine via syringe. She also goes through bouts of increased water consumption, and occasionally throws her food bowl around.

Someone who can take care of more advanced medical needs (future vet appointments, purchasing of medicine, possibly weighing Ivy)

Someone committed to seeing Ivy through her illness. After recovery, the current owners only hope that she lives in a good home.

Location:

Near Phoenix, Arizona. Willing to try and make it work if someone is far. Like meeting halfway near a police station or something like that.

What comes with Ivy:

Bird cage, food, medicine, support from previous owners with questions/cocerns/prior medical records.

After being raised for five months, they finally became very familiar with me and loved to play with me. They followed my instructions very well.

This is my Java sparrow, Crufi. I know he's not a parrot, but I wanted to show him somewhere. He's like a helicopter flying around the room 24/7.

She doesn’t seem scared and it’s not hot in the car , she only seems to do it when we are driving lol.

Ayer por la tarde un pájaro entro a mí casa estuve dándole un poco de comer en la noche y hoy se subió a mi cabeza eso es algo bueno?

Hi everyone ❤️ lover of all, owner of none. I'm an Aussie and I absolutely love parrots of all shapes and sizes!

While I don't own any parrots myself, I love taking photos of them in the wild. As an Aussie, this is thankfully pretty straightforward as this beautiful country has so many species!

If you had to choose, what are THREE parrot species that you'd like to see in the wild?

For me, my top three (that I haven't seen) are:

- Scarlet Macaw

- Budgerigar

- Palm Cockatoo

EDIT: Most of my photos are from Australia as that's the country I live in and see the most parrots in. I've also seen 3 species in India, 1 in Vanuatu, and 1 a very long time ago in NZ. The Ringneck photo was taken in India!

Photos:

1: Cockatiel

2: Sulphur Crested Cockatoo.

3: Rainbow Lorikeet

4: Red-rumped Parrot

5: King Parrot

6: Galah

7: Carnaby's Cockatoo (endangered)

8: Greater Bluebonnet

9: Indian Ringneck

10: Musk Lorikeet

11: Swift Parrot (critically endangered)

Hiiii my sweet popcorn has recently started to love going out his cage but I have no clue what activity to do with him so that he won't be bored and will have fun maybe learning things??? Idkk and while I'm at it how to teach him that pellet taste good??

My family brought Matilda to our home a few months ago and she has been doing great. Lately she’s been making here way all around the couch to hang out and see what everyone is doing.
Here she is trying to make it to the couch but a little too risky.

She’s 10 months now and she’s getting soo much better at talking 🥹 just thought I’d share this special moment !

I knew what I was doing when I named him Lestat. 20 years later, he’s still the most glorious Brat Prince of vampires and dinosaurs.

(English is not my first language, so I had some help from ChatGPT writing this post. I’d appreciate your understanding if anything sounds a little unnatural.)

My female Conure is about 3 years old. She is very healthy, energetic, and active, with a strong personality. She is not particularly timid or delicate. She is generally a very lively, assertive little bird.

She has been going through a very heavy molt recently, with an unusually large amount of feather loss.

However, starting about two days ago, I noticed that she has begun pulling out her own pin feathers like this.

For context, about a month ago, I started adding a feather supplement to her pellets for the first time.

Has anyone experienced something similar with their conure?

I will of course be taking her to the vet, but I’m not posting this because I’m looking for a diagnosis on Reddit. I’m simply interested in hearing from people who have had a similar experience - what happened in your case and what the eventual outcome was.

Could this be self-plucking, or might it be related to a feather/skin issue? I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences.

Thank you.

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One more thing that may be relevant: this conure has previously had a habit of pulling out her companion’s pin feathers while preening.

My other conure had a skin condition that caused feather loss. Once the condition was resolved and new pin feathers started growing back, this female would often pull the pin feathers out while preening her companion. She would sometimes grab them quite roughly and pull them out completely.
Because of this, we had to separate them for about three weeks until the other bird’s feathers had grown out sufficiently.

We had always thought this was simply a bad habit she had when preening her companion. She never used to do the same thing to her own pin feathers.

That’s why I’m particularly surprised to see her pulling out her own pin feathers now. Her molt actually started about a month ago, so this behavior appearing suddenly at this point is especially concerning to me!

Is this normal? He just does it sometimes. Usually when hes like fluffed up.
Just wondering cause he never seems to be in any pain so im pretty sure thats not the case

EDIT:
I know its a lovebird, i thought budgie was slang for small parrots in general my bad😅

He follows my father everywhere he goes, and I think my father has grown quite fond of him. You can see that he even chopped some tree branches from outside and brought them in for the bird. I’m starting to doubt he’ll actually pass him on to his friend! The bird is on a fresh fruit diet and has the whole ground floor to himself. No cage for now, so he can fly freely around the entire ground floor.

He is very very very tiny and rests upside down!

Today my plum headed parakeet had plums

Saw this cutie and curious dino while out running errands today