I am wondering what proportion of owned birds are clipped vs. flighted. It would at first appear that most people have clipped birds because it seems that many people don't want to deal with the trouble of flight. However, I'm not sure cause I could see it going the other way too.
Basically there are one of 3 options:
1) Parrot is kept clipped on purpose
2) Parrot is purposefully kept flighted
3) Owner is too lazy to bother getting it clipped so it is inadvertently flighted
To me it seems that relatively few people keep them purposefully flighted from the discussions I've had online. However, I have also talked to so many lazy parrot owners that I wonder if the effort to take them in to get clipped is too much for them! So I believe (this is a guess) that number 2 is the rarest case and I'm split between 1 and 3 as being the most common case.
Let us know not only about your flock situation but also friends and other people you've encountered with parrots. Because knowing if most people keep their birds clipped or not can help us create education targeted toward that type of audience.
If we get a lot of interesting responses to this, then I will add a profile field that shows if your birds are flighted or not so we can know how to respond to certain posts where it could depend. What made me think of this question right now is because I briefly saw a video of Harleys_dad's macaw outside and to me (as a new freeflier) the first question that comes to mind when I see a picture of a parrot outside is if they are being freeflown outdoors. I used to assume most people kept their birds clipped but times are changing and that may no longer be a fair assumption to make!