Tell me your first experience of your first bird

[Isaac Montes]

What was your first experience with you first bird?

[TheNzJessie]

i got my first bird which was a green budgie called ollie when i was 13 my classmate from school got him for me for christmas unfortunaly get got a lung tumor (autopsy showed) and died when he was 1 year old. i remember him being very tame form the beginning very tame and quiet for a budgie and he loves apple

[Isaac Montes]

Thats sad

[entrancedbymyGCC]

Well, Scooter our GCC is technically my first bird. He wrapped me around his foot sometime in the first couple of weeks and I've not looked back. We were expecting him to be a bit of a project, but he turned out to be very tame and interested in us. He's really been a very easy bird and a joy to have around.

Before that I got a lot of vicarious experience with my MILs White-specatacled Amazon, Sake. I'd help my husband trim his toenails and wings and bought him Christmas presents and such. Sake was not aggressive at all, but he really didn't warm to anyone other than my MIL (even my husband who raised him and owned him his first year) but I got to learn about birds from him. We didn't get birds earlier because we assumed he'd outlive my MIL, but sadly he did not. I came away from the experience with him wondering if birds would really take to me. Sake was indifferent and when we went into bird stores, my husband would interact with the birds and they'd always respond to him, rarely to me. Now the two we have think I'm the cats pajamas!

[Giantmoa]

when I was eleven or so I was walking in the park when this really pretty yellow bird flew onto the telephone line. I still have the vivid image of sunlight streaming through her yellow tail and flight feathers in my mind. It was pretty obvious the bird wasn't native so my mother and I started talking to it and it flew down. We managed to catch her up in a scarf and take her home. We sat with her in the side yard and she walked around the grass for half an hour (fully flighted and everything, hmm not the brightest idea..) while my mom called the shelter. in that time we came to the conclusion that we should foster her until the owner could be found. "Lucky" became our cockatiel after a couple months of searching for her owner and I've loved birds ever since. She past away a year or two ago though and I've really missed her flying around the house... but I adore my gcc

[Isaac Montes]

Thats a pretty story!

[zazanomore]

My first experience with a Parrot was my great aunt's cockatiel. He was a mean little bugger, and I was terrified of him.

When I was little I always watched nature shows. Soon I discovered the amazing intelligence birds possess. My 8 year old self promised to one day own a Grey.

[trademark]

My first parrot was a lovebird and she was super vicious to everyone and rammed her beak against the cage bars to bite. and she bit me so many times

Fortunatly, she was later tamed
Now shes a great bird!

[Margaret]

I have a funny story, because whole my life I thought I'm not a bird person

The first bird, who absolutely stole my heart was Mango.

The poor bird was rescued from the place I was working at that time. He was in the smallest cage possible with only one toy and two containers: one for seeds and the other for water. He was screaming, singing and shaking his head up and down all the time. I didn't think twice about taking him home, but I had no idea what kind of parrot I took home and how to deal with that bird. I watched him closely and even without knowledge about birds I knew something was wrong with his beak. The parrot couldn't eat. Mango was making weird positions to reach container with his seeds...
Quickly Mango got his beak clipped, bigger cage and more toys. I learned some things from vets, and from Internet and I found out that Mango was male. He was afraid of humans, each time I was close he panicked. That didn't give me much choice, I made my decision that he absolutely needed another bird companion.
Now, I can't imagine living without birds and the more I read/watch/see in the pet stores, the more I would like to have another parrots, but life is life- maybe in the future

[coral]

My first experience with a bird was a baby pigeon. We found him outside of CVS (local pharmacy) He fell out of his nest. He was just a baby and he was just growing his feathers. My grandma brought him home because she didn't want him to die. He was the sweetest thing we fed him ourselves and he grew up to be an amazing bird! One day while i wasn't home she took him outside in the summer and opened his cage and left him outside. She felt it was time for him to go, she went inside and came back out an hour later and he was still there! So she left him out there a while longer and he finally flew away. I was really sad but I'm glad now and i understand that's what he needed. We saw him a few times sitting in the trees in our front yard. I remember all the other birds we've saved to, but his personality was very different than the others.