by Pajarita » Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:53 am
Welcome to the forum! Now, the thing is that, during the winter, the bird will have to pretty much go to bed at 3:30 pm because they need to eat their dinner during sunsent and go to sleep right after.
And you will not be able to interact before you go to school because it's also dark in the am.
Senegals are not really very good birds for newbies... they are very loving birds and highly intelligent but they can also be very hard biters when not happy (and the bird will NOT be happy alone all day long, they need hours and hours of one-to-one attention) and a bit unforgiving of mistakes (it took me 3.5 years to get a senegal that had not been treated right in his previous life to stop attacking me every day and several times a day). I suggest you wait until you have more time and will have more time for the next 20-30-40 years to have a single bird that requires your personal attention. What you can get is a male/female pair of an aviary species like cockatiels, beebees, plets. You might not achieve the kind of pet relationship you can with a senegal but they are all wonderful pets!