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[Curious Diode]

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[Pajarita]

Well, a three hour trip is not a problem if you do it in the middle of the day (when they rest) and the bird is in a comfortable carrier and not exposed to too much noise, strangers, etc. But it's not something that should be done with a baby bird (too stressful).

[Curious Diode]

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[Pajarita]

Baby birds are the same as any other baby, they only feel comfortable with the mother or father when they are tiny and, as they start growing up and start feeling more self-assured, they start trusting more and more people (it's the way it's done in the wild with baby birds and the flock/family to which they belong). But you are living with your parents so they would be there for the bird to get used to from the beginning... Now, if what you are asking is how to get a bird used to a second person so this person can take over the function of caregiver when you are not there, there is really nothing that would prepare the bird for this unless the person lives in the same household and becomes familiar (as my husband has become familiar to my birds even though he doesn't care for them regularly, for example) as time goes by. But we all have emergencies and we all have, at one point or another, either to make a trip or something so, as long as the trip is not long and it's not something done frequently but more like a once in a blue moon thing, it should be OK for anybody who likes birds to care for it. The bird won't be happy about it but there won't be any negative lasting effects.

[Curious Diode]

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[Pajarita]

Let me tell you something I have found about GCCs: they have a completely undeserved reputation of been nippy and moody! In my personal experience, if they get good care (solar spectrum, good diet, good light, lots and lots of out-of-cage time, hours and hours with their human, etc), they are the sweetest, easiest birds to keep. I only have one now because I rehomed the other three I had taken in (a male and a female went together as a bonded pair -they met in my house- and a handicapped male that I rehomed to a couple where the lady is in a wheelchair so she stays home almost all the time) and she is the sweetest, sweetest thing! She is so very mild-tempered that she is the ONLY bird I allow my grandchildren to handle because I know for a fact she will not bite them. She doesn't bite, she doesn't scream, she is in perfect plumage, she is a great eater, bather, kisser and cuddler and would go to anybody who puts a finger out to her! I had rehomed this bird (and her boyfriend) to an in-law and she ended up with stress bars all over her back because she wasn't been handled enough (I took her back when I saw this) so, although they can be the easiest birds, you do need to pay a lot of attention to them.

[liz]

w[i]at I have found with Rambo:[/i]
He traveled a lot with his last human and turned into a "go go bird". Even now he gets excited when I ask him if he wants to go "bye bye".

[Wolf]

Due to my limited experience with very young parrots, I was sort of waiting this one out to see if my thoughts were valid or not. It seems to me that at this early of an age in addition to being new to you and its new home that taking the bird out and about would simply be a bit too stressful for the bird this soon. Please consider that it is just a baby and that by coming to live with you that it is losing all that it has ever known and that this is very stressful for them and even more stressful if the bird is not coming with at least one of its siblings due to the fact that it is all alone and was never evolved to spend even a few hours alone and therefor gains a significant portion of its feelings of safety and security from the presence of its flock mates and siblings. You are an unknown human that it has no reason to trust and it is now in a totally alien environment and all alone which would be a death sentence if it was in the wild, so this is a very stressful and frightening period in its life. I think that at this point that you would better serve the birds needs by keeping it safely at home and spending lots of time loving and earning the little one's trust and allowing it time to adapt to both yourself and its new environment.

[shiraartain]

It's already been said, but a 3 hour trip for an older bird is not a problem. Fajr has made the 4 hour trek to Chicago with us a few times, though we found a petsitter when we went on a longer road trip through Canada.