Over the weekend I visited one of the pet supplies chain stores. This type doesn't sell many parrots. They had budgerigars, of course, a conure, and some small birds like finches. They had quite the variety of budgerigars though.
Of course I went over to look at them. I'm always curious about the birds being sold whenever I go to a pet store. I didn't have any intention of buying them, but I still think they are cute. When I went over to look at some of the birds, I noticed the set up the store had. It was basically a box formation of caged animals around a small room, through a door to get inside, an employee could access all of the cages. I saw through the cage bars of another bird's cage, some of the budgies were inside the little room. I realized that someone had left the door open from the little room that was used to access the cage and two or three budgies figured out how to get into this little room. They were flighted of course.
I alerted the employees of the store immediately. Having the birds out in that little room is a disaster waiting to happen. If they open the door and the birds fly out of that little room, there will be even more trouble getting them back. There were a vast amount of places those birds can hide if they got out.
A few minutes later I watched one of the employees chasing the budgies inside with a net inside of this little room. She kept missing them and they kept flying away.
Before she even tried to grab them, she diminished her chances of being able to. Not only was the budgie scared of the net that was trying to get it, but it was probably more scared of her presence and her entire body too. The bird probably felt it was being chased by a predator. Instead of grabbing them, wasting time trying to catch them with a net and missing them with the net, she could have tried to simply grab them with her hand or lured them with millet to go where she wanted.