I'll try to chip in when I can...my own flock is made up of 13 birds. I have my three Jardine's (Aukie, Emma and Giggidy) and then my little Meyer's hen, Molly. Mona would be horrified if I did not mention my MOLLY, lol! She is really an incredible flier and a great little girl, just as cool as a Senegal. I do have issues with her being aggressive to my other birds, but she's great with people and I used to fly her at the armory with Mona's birds. Mona really really misses her. She is now 11 years old and was my first parrot, so I've had her 8 years.
My three Congo greys are Sylvain, Nigel and my new girl, Trixie. And all are so different! I swear, every grey I know is so totally unique in personality...even more so than other species. In the video you can see me take Nigel off a perch in the grey aviary and give him a kiss (which I always do through my hand, because now and then he'll try to bite rather than kiss, but he EXPECTS a greeting kiss from me!). Other than Nigel, all my own birds live at my house. Mona knows Nigel well too...he went from a plucked baby to a beautifully flighted 5 year old interacting with the Oasis greys and learning flock dynamics in that big aviary. Not a bad life!
I am also very big on Eclectus parrots, I have three in my flock (Donald, Pilot and Veronica). I used to fly Donald at the Armory in Washington state with the Northwest Avian Flyers too. I am active on The Eclectus Connection email list as the 'plant expert' who offers help identifying safe and toxic plants for parrots...I have a master's in horticulture. At the Oasis, I spent the past year caring for an Eclectus named Pong Yo who was a victim of multiple strokes. He and I became very close, and we just lost him in early December...one of the harder things that has happened to me since working here. I am working on building a memorial bird fruit garden for the Oasis parrots in his honor.
And the rest of my flock is rounded out by my Lesser Patagonian Conure, Lenny; my Aztec Conure, Chicken and my Iris Lorikeet, Vic. I am just a huge fan of so many species though. Both conures and lories have great qualities as companions too, it's too bad so often you just hear about how noisy conures are and how messy lories are!!! Mine aren't so bad, certainly not so bad that I wouldn't want to live with them and enjoy them forever! I adore my two conures, recently took Chicken to a positive reinforcement training retreat at Cockatoo Downs, and he's still working on his step up but making progress...which is huge since he's always been handshy.
Vic's brother can be seen in a number of videos posted by his owner Cydney on YouTube. Thought I'd share a link to a few of them, but once again, lories are very underrated as companion birds. They just are difficult to keep with other parrot species because they can be more aggressive and dangerous to similar sized birds. But what personality and smarts! Okay, I'll post the Rainbow Lory smilie, though he's not the kind I have.. Iris and Goldie's Lorikeets are not much bigger than budgies, but every bit a lory like Ophelia the Black Lory is!! They are messier, but since they are small you can make the mess manageable with shower curtains and frequent cage cleaning.
Here's some of Cydney's links with her trained Iris lorikeet, Kia...cute or what!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMoxr0vI-Wc
http://www.youtube.com/user/cydney1220# ... NhrFra3nBo