Are YOU the owner of an uncommon parrot?

[cml]

I will try....this forum site seems to be the hardest for me to post pics on. I have some baby pics when he was 6 weeks old and some recent fully feathered pics i will try soon!

Just upload it to a third-party site, such as picasa, flickr or something similar. Then you go to your picture and copy its url-adress.
This you post between:
[img]insert-your-url-here[/img]
and there you go, the pic will show up =).
Attachments doesnt work very well on this forum, so I wouldnt bother trying that!

[JacobBird]

I have a Blue-Eyed Cockatoo /: Would u consider that uncommon? O.O

[ceiji]

I have an Amboina King Parrot named Chilli.. Before getting her, I tried searching of people who have them and came up empty.

They are really pretty and the blue just shines when she is in sunlight. They are very quiet like Princess, Regent or Baraband parakeets. Its lovely to see them fly around with that colorful plumage. They are not the best talkers. I can never make out what she's mumbling.

These are some old pics of her..

[Eurycerus]

I just was looking at those guys and wow are they beautiful!

[Elizebird]

I probably have the most common parrots ever to be owned XD (besides the african grey and B&G macaw) but I love looking at everyone else's lovely birds.

There aren't actually that many 'too people on here, but there are a handful!

[Polarn]

Same here, enjoy looking at what you all got. But have nothing uncommon here except that my BFa is of subspecies nominate (having no yellow on the shoulders) and most I've seen around here in sweden is of subspecies xanthopteryx (partly or fully yellow on the shoulders and often more yellow in the face) or a mix between these two. But the bluefronted amazons are still common and the two subspecies are barely known anyways

[klaery]

I have a hahns macaw which although common to most on here is actually quite rare in my country. Most people do not know what they are and even the bird vets get excited when they here one is coming in for a checkup haha. All macaws, greys, amazons (in fact all foreign larger parrots) are relatively rare in Australia.

On the flip side cockatoos, galahs (rose cockatoos), short and long billed corellas, rosellas, king parrots, lorikeets etc are all very common.

[pionus]

ok, first off, sorry to be the late poster.

I just wanted to understand something. Arshia, you' want to get a bird, right? well, in your posts on this thread, I am getting the impression (and I may be totally wrong) that your motive for having a parrot (if you are even considering one, i don't know) is to own something rare and special that no one else has. maybe just because it's cool. again i don't know any thing about you, it just seems that way to from your posts. i don't want to offend you.


on another note, which also kinda led me to believe my above thoughts, is that when Grey_Moon shared her Timneh African Grey (rare to me) you kinda dissed her. I mean, they may not be as rare as your kakapo (not saying that you own one), but you could have wrote that less... rudely?
i don't really know, I just had share my thoughts, its been bothering me for awhile.

and again, I really don't mean to offend you.

[Arshia]

Lol forget any "impressions" that I might have made. Screw getting a bird on my college budget. I just post on this forum to vicariously live out my desires of owning a bird - something which I'm restricted from doing given my situation.
^Don't worry though, you're probably like the 20th person to assume and criticize my decision to buy a bird. So if you'll look through pretty much all my posts after a certain point, I make it explicitly clear that I'm /NOT/ buying a bird, and probably won't until I'm 30.

But would it be so wrong to "ooh" at all the mesmerizing and unique birds that you wouldn't normally see in such forums?

Oh, and offensive? Do you really think so...? Let me paste what I said to her:

A TAG is just an African Grey, and I've heard about them many times before, so nothing too mindblowing. I like the picture though
-I felt the need to post a reply to everyone when I started with this forum, and I really didn't an African Grey was too rare, so I just said that. I even said I liked the picture! lol that's not rude, is it?

And lots of species that are commonly owned domestically are classified as endangered, so I really don't think that qualifies it. Like the sun conure - I've seen them lots of them before as pets, but they aren't too amazing. If you pulled out a Kakapo on the other hand...
-Only justifying my idea, and adding a little humor

The thing is, it's terribly difficult decoding tone from text. Just imagine someone repeated that and was smiling jokingly - lol - to get a better impression of how I meant it. I never meant to be rude.

[pionus]

ohhh, ok thank your for making that clearer for me.
i had no idea that your were in collage, and it is not wrong at all to want to hear about peoples' rare birds.
now that you have explained it more to me, i understand what you meant in the post you pasted.

sorry if i made you feel bad, that wasn't my intention. and since i didn't know your background i was going off of your thread and got a wrong impression and felt the need to clarify.

all good.
thanks!