On that note, to larger bird owners, I will soon be joining your ranks! To be honest, I'm nervous. i know in the pit of my soul this is what I want. My wife and I have been around birds and raised budgies and cockatiels to their lives completion. But we haven't spent an enormous amount of time around bigger parrots and in the time we have found ourselves not entirely familiar with some of the nuance of their body language. Still, we know it's time to wade into the "deep end"
.I think it must feel like how new parents feel when a baby is on the way. The worry that you won't be perfect, that you have to be perfect, and that slights and errors may forever condemn and label you a failure. The fear nonacceptance, emotional drift, and lovelessness. All the things you face in the deep water, you know? If you take this responsibility seriously, I think these worries will be as natural as the desire to adopt.
of course, the worries are no where near as strong as the desire, and adopt I will be doing! And the worries subside a lot by researching, like the kind I've been doing on sites like Mike's and forums like these.
sorry if this is getting tl;dr
Anyways, I've come into this GORGEOUS medium sized cage and pretty much got the ball rolling on the research and comparisons. I'm 95% set on adopting poicephalus gulielmi massaicus, the Greater Jardine's. It's in no small part due to many of you that I'm deeply attracted to the pois! Honestly though, most of my research seemed to be sweeping me in the direction of the pois, AG's, and Pio's anyways. Caiques and Hahn's/Noble Macaws were on the list too. I've come to settle on the Poi's for their generally good balance of playful energy, loving personality, health, and attractive noise:size ratio. Disregarding any mimicry ability or plumage, I came the choice solely on relationship qualities. I hope to adopt a baby emblematic of the genus, but finding a Greater in the Midwest has been a big time chore! I've spent no less than a week on the phone, Google, or email in search of breeder who's just breeding Greaters, muchless readying them for adoption. I've found a couple, hopefully come spring their pairs will be on eggs.
It's been nice reflecting on my feelings, feel free to skip it xD or reply.
. while we had 17 happy years together it would have gone even better if i had a chance to have more experiance. even though i knew him my whole life he was hands off in a cage for all that time. i saw in another post of yours that your wife was nervous about the birds in the store after a bite. it's important for both of you to know bites happen. the cute little baby you're buying will become a hormonal monster in a few years i'm not saying you can't handle it or you shouldn't try but you should know both good and bad. everytime i take my birds out people say " how sweet i want one". but then i show them the scars from my 
hormonal bites and i tell them how they scream when i cook their favorite dinner the mess which you already know about having birds already. so i would take the time you have til your baby is ready and see what you're getting into there are so many who end up in rescues after the hormones start.