Hi,
I start saying sorry for my english, it's not my first language. I don't know a lot about parrots and I don't own one but I really love them and almost everyday I read this forum to learn more about them. This is my situation: I know a place that people can visit, like a small zoo, they have many animals and among them there are also parrots. From the information I gathered, one of them, a male blue and gold macaw is almost eighteen years old, at the beginning he was a pet and spent most of his time with his 'owner', but since five years ago he started to attack him, like he doesn't recognize him, I think because the owner doesn't interact with the parrot anymore, he only says 'hi' to him and then goes away. When he was little, some people say four years old, something happened, no one knows exactly what, and now he can't use one of his wings (he can move it but can't open it, if this makes sense); I don't know if a vet visited him, the owner always says that he didn't do anything because he was scared that the parrot would remain traumatized and because he never was a fly lover, he prefers to walk (from what I saw he always tries to move his wings like he wants to fly). Also, a few years ago, he was put in the place where people buy tickets to go inside, and he spends day and night there (I think that they turn off the lights very late so I don't think he rest properly), he only gets attention from the staff members and the visitors. He has a little house that everyone calls 'his nest' and attacks everyone that goes near it. He also spends all his time on a branch (maybe 19 ft long), thay let him get on the ground only when the place is closed because he attacks people's feet. He seems very aggressive at first, because he tries to attack everyone that goes near his branch or his nest, but I think it's only a 'fake attack', like he wants to just scare people. I know a staff member that has a close relantonship with him, he doesn't attack her and she can put him an her arm, but she stopped doing this after one time, with no apparent reason, he bited her finger really hard. In a few weeks, sadly, she is going to move to another city so she is worried and that's why I want to help both of them. We don't know what to do, so we are asking for you help. Thank you very much.