So why did you pick your bird?

[captwest]

Because my mother had a amazon when i was a child and i wanted my own as soon as i could talk her into it.I'll be i your area in late Feb, early Mar and have a good friend in Tuscon who raises lots of parrots, and has some of the prettiest Tiels i've seen , anyway he has hundreds and hundreds of birds if your still looking when i get there maybe i can take you by there or that least give you his number. Living where you do you need to visit the Oasis north of Benson , it's a great place and i know you'll be amazed.

[meowingaround]

I heard tiels were great for beginners and the males were also more likely to learn some vocalizations.

Both my boys know a few words now like Hello, Pretty Bird, they both have a funny laugh where they bob their heads up and down and mimic my laugh. They also both know the scooby doo song and are learning more everyday

Someday I want a bigger parrot but I have much to learn

[TheNzJessie]

i worked at a pet store and we had a rainbow lorikeet there forever it took a liking to me and it got to the point where no one else could handle him. so my boss said take him ill give you a discount and a cage. i was terrified of loris before working at the pet store because when i was little i was attacked by my grandad and nanas lori (i still have scars) but iv loved them ever since, luka had to be put down after old age and a failing liver. Jango is my second lori who i got in june 2010.

[Shani]

I had a tiel when I was a little kid and have had a soft spot for the silly little parrots ever since. For Barney specifically though, I found a good breeder, got 10 3 week old tiel chicks placed in a box on my lap, and Barney jumped into my hand.

Wasn't really much of a choice

[meowingaround]

LOL That reminds me of how I picked out Windy. My sister picked out Willow before me and we went up for her to visit him and for me to pick out my baby. I knew I wanted a brother to hers. So it narrowed it down to the one cage. All the others of that group where sleeping as they had just been fed, and this one.. little tiel was running back and forth at the bottom of the cage like "pick me pick me pick me" and I did.. and that's how Windy picked me or I picked him I am never quite sure.

LOL

[rebeccaturpeinen]

i wasnt much of a bird person before and it if you would have asked me 1 year ago if i would ever own a bird, i would have said "no way!" but...

then we found Joey outside flying around and we knew he shouldnt be out by himself cos he doesnt belong here in denmark. so we caught him and couldnt find his owner so... we kept him. it was first my husband that was very persistent that we should keep him and i was talking about a rescue center cos i knew my husband would lose interest. two months later he lost interest and i fell in love. now i cant stop buying birdtoys, making birdtoys and am thinking about my next bird.... im hooked.

[GlassOnion]

I wanted to adopt an older bird that needed a new home.
Then saw a kijiji listing for a cockatiel, at a good price. So I called him right away and picked up my Apple in an hour!

[entrancedbymyGCC]

I was never interested in birds until I met my husband and his mom's Amazon. My husband talked a lot about the birds he had had, all lost to one thing or another (from PBFD to a temprorary rehome during a short term job, where the person left the country with the bird, to the Amazon who bonded to his mother during the same short term job and never wanted to be with anyone else again.). We talked a lot about getting a bird, but we always sort of figured we'd have Sake when Harriet passed away. Unfortunately he became ill and predeceased her by mere months. During that time, I had sort of developed a through-the-glass thing with a green cheek at Petsmart. We really did NOT want to encourage big box store bird sales, so I figured it was right out to get the bird, but I kept right on flirting through the glass when I went in for cat food, and he'd flirt back. One day after about a year, my husband was out on a run and he just picked up the phone and called me and said, "I think we just need to get that bird out of there!" We were expecting a project at best and a really antisocial bird at worst. That was Scooter. Scooter turned out to be anything but a broken bird, but a very outgoing, affectionate creature.

Scotty was a bit more deliberate. We wanted a bigger bird to be my husband's own project, and we started looking around at various stores in the area. We nearly bought a Major Mitchell Cockatoo which lives in a store nearby and which we had been in the habit of visiting, but when we actually got a chance to handle the bird, it didn't seem quite right -- plus we weren't sure how the noise would go down in our neighborhood. Eventually we came across Scotty, a 3-year-old Cape who'd been waiting for "the right person" to come along. He had been acquired as a potential breeder, but they decided he was more pet material, or at least that's how the story goes. At any rate, we were in this store getting introduced to various birds when Scotty was brought out from the back. My husband had no idea what he was, but I'd been hanging around here and reading about Truman so I knew he was a Cape! The two hit it off, and after several more visits, home he came.

[zazanomore]

Long story. But in the end, it was fate.

[Giantmoa]

I knew I wanted a bird after my 'tiel passed away. It couldn't be something too big or loud for my parents sake and while researching I narrowed it down to a gcc or a senegal. There was a lot of info suggesting senegals were likely to become one-person birds and I knew my parents weren't going to put in a lot of effort socializing any bird we got, so a gcc seemed the best option. We ended up falling in love with a specific gcc in the end, and didn't really connect with the senegal that we met, so all in all it was a great descision as I adore my little conure