We've only had Stormy for about a week, But he stole our hearts in about 5 minutes!My wife and I have kept pet birds for many years. We've had canaries, parakeets, finches, a pair of lovebirds, and currently we have a small flock of 8 zebra finches all males and collectively named Darryl...
However, just about a week ago we got two new additions to our feathered family. A female Blue Parakeet named Olivia Blue
, and a Quaker Parrot, whose sex we don't know, named Stormy Weather. A lot of people don't know that the in the early 70's a shipment of Quaker parrots escaped into the wild in southeast Austin. These parrots made a home for themselves and flourished. Fast forward 35 years and Austin is home to a colony of several thousand maybe 10,000 or more healthy happy Quaker Parrots!
Just about a year ago there were some heavy storms and flooding in Austin. Just after one of those storms a friend of ours who had been shopping and was headed towards her truck found a baby quaker parrot, fully feathered, but really still too small to fly, soaking wet, and shivering on the tailgate of her truck...
She took it home, syringe fed it until she was able to get it to start eating solid foods and named him Stormy Weather. These friends had recently rescued a, just weaned, female Blue Parakeet from a local pet store where it was being treated badly, and not really having any place else to keep him they put Stormy in the cage with Olivia... Well both being babies they immediately bonded and a year later are in the most committed animal relationship I have ever seen!
But now Stormy is a little over year old and starting to get curious and explore and these friends of ours have cats and dogs and they're worried about Stormy's safety.
My wife found out they were looking for a new home for the birds and we immediately volunteered... It had to be a package deal because no one who ever saw this Parakeet and this Quaker Parrot together would ever, for one second, consider separating them.
Now Olivia who was mistreated at the pet store by the owners, employees, and the other birds in her cage is currently very very shy. She doesn't like people's hands, she doesn't want anyone reaching in her cage, she doesn't want to be touched, she doesn't want to be hand fed! In fact she goes into a panic and frantically flies all over the inside of the cage potentially injuring herself if anybody sticks their hand in there...
We're going to give Olivia her space for a while and work on Stormy then we'll be able to collaborate with Stormy to hand tame and train Olivia...
Stormy, on the other hand, has the beginnings of being hand tamed and trained. He's eager to step up on a perch and come out of his cage he's eager to step up on fingers and he'll step up on your finger and he'll sometimes give kisses. And after about 10 or 15 minutes he will eagerly go back into his cage, but he does not allow you to touch him without being bitten (regardless of wether he's in or out of his cage). Not on his feet, not on his body, and not on his head, or his beak...
Both my wife and I have already got him to where he will allow us to hand feed him treats, he will step up on our fingers, and he will come in and out of the cage for us. Our next step is to patiently work with him until he allows us to touch him, and scratch his beak.
I should say here that Stormy did have his wings clipped by our friends when they started to become worried about his interaction with the dogs and cats in their home... All of our other birds are full flighted including Olivia and Stormys feathers will be allowed to grow back.
Anyway, I apologize for this being such a long introduction post, but I sure am glad I have found such a wealth of information about Quaker Parrots because I have owned a lot of caged birds, but have never attempted to hand tame one before, and I want to be a good daddy!
The other members will be able to help you out with taming them more, but we are glad to have you here 
, they are the cutest things on earth