Rhode Island Parrot Rescue

[Navre]

I'll have to get a picture of his front.

[Navre]

Mango is the only one I've seen, but our other Jendays looked nothing like this, as far as coloration goes. He is 9.

[Navre]

This is stimey. He is far more yellow. I guess they don't really look that different. Mango came in tagged as a Sunday, and I never really questioned it.

[liz]

I love to read your posts. It is as if you work in a nursery school with a bunch of feathered kids. You have a real feel for them.

[Navre]

I love to read your posts. It is as if you work in a nursery school with a bunch of feathered kids. You have a real feel for them.

I actually have to get less attached. A couple of weeks ago, a bunch of birds had to be shipped off to be fostered with another rescue. I was devestated. When a bird is going to be adopted, we know it's happening, and it's a process that takes a while. And they tend to go one at a time. This was too many, and too sudden for me to handle. It felt more like a death. I left on Friday and they were there; on Saturday they were gone. It took me about a week to get over. And even now, when Casey Grey sees me coming and say "Hi Cathie!" I get upset. (Cathie was the 2-year-old grey next to him. I guess I must have said hi to her every time I walked by) She was so scared when she came to us, but I had just gotten her to the point where I could bring her into the kitchen with me as I made chop. I loved that bird, but someone who is 50 isnt the right candidate for a grey who is 18 months old. She's better off in a home than in the rescue. I just hope whoever is fostering her will keep her. I don't want her to move, again. Not that I guess I'd know if she did.

[Wolf]

That is the thing about volunteering at a bird rescue there are so many things beyond your control that it is not all peaches and cream. Sometimes you have to have a little faith that those in control of the rescue care enough that they are trying to do what is best for the birds given what they have to work with. It is something that not everyone can do, but I would also be concerned about the birds if it did not bother the volunteers when things such as this occur. I think that you are doing a truly wonderful thing.

[Pajarita]

Yes, I also believe you are doing a wonderful job - and I don't envy you one bit because I am the kind that gets way too attached to them!

Yes, Mango is definitely a Sunday! That red chest and belly is typical as Jendays are much more red than Sun conures. My own Nando (his name used to be Mango, also ) is like that but he also has more yellow on his shoulders.

[Navre]

This was posted on our Facebook page, so I think I'm allowed to share it.

The one baby who made it through all this mess is this little budgie. He is in a cage with 6 other budgies. We don't know which is hos mother and father, so they were all left together. He had been in a nest box. He was too young to perch a month ago, but he sat in a dish at the bottom of the cage. Volunteers didn't feed him, but they checked his crop occasionally to make sure that he was full. Either he ate by himself or other budgies were feeding him. He is now a fully fledged, slightly smaller, member of a 7 budgie cage. We need a name that means "survivor" or "miracle" (Lucky is overdone as a name).

[Pajarita]

Awww, and what a pretty bird he or she is!!! I vote for Chance (as in Bon Chance -good luck in French) if a boy and Milagros if it's a girl (a common Spanish name that means miracles).

[galeriagila]

I love those names. What an angelic looking darling!