- I've been offered a Quaker Parrot
or an Indian Ringneck Parrot.
(parrot squawking)
Which one do you think I should take
on as my next project Bird?
Wait,
what is a Project Bird?
Some past project birds
of mine have been a 45 year old
Blue-fronted Amazon Parrot named Storm.
Who was severely obese couldn't fly
because he was so overweight.
And hated men,
and was just overall a cranky guy.
I worked with him for 45 days
and was able to rehabilitate him onto a,
very healthy diet,
make it so that he liked all people including men.
And was an outdoor free flyer.
Another project bird was Rasta
the Alexandrine Parakeet who came
to me with severe aggression and fear.
So he would get so scared
that he would turn to aggressive.
It was a very very interesting case.
He also had a huge lack of confidence
and I turned him into an indoor flyer,
trick trained him,
and got him to a space where
his ten-year-old owner could then work with him.
My most well-known project bird is probably
Morgan the seven-year-old Camelot Macaw
who was hatched with a foot defect.
She couldn't even step up properly onto a hand
according to all her previous owners.
Now I worked with Morgan for four months
and flight trained her to be an outside flyer
and then returned her back to her owner Patty.
Who's her forever home.
I still stand strong to the belief
that there was nothing wrong with Morgan,
other than nobody had really truly given
her a chance.
In the past have only been able
to take on project birds very rarely.
Which is why they've literally been years apart
in my playlists.
However, my patrons over at Patreon
are making it possible for me
to take on project birds more often.
Which is amazing.
Now I was offered two different birds
from the same rescue,
and I let my patrons decide which one they
thought I should work with.
The first option is Lefty.
A male 16 year old Quaker Parrot.
His owner passed away unexpectedly.
His owner was a man in his twenties.
The parrot ended up with his family,
whom has no experience with parrots.
They didn't know what to do with him.
So they surrendered him to this rescue.
The rescue has been trying
to find a home for Lefty
but Lefty wants nothing to do
with human interaction.
Whether it's with males,
females,
kids,
older people,
younger people.
He shows no interest in wanting a human relationship at all.
He's severely aggressive.
They can't get him to step up onto their hand.
He's on a bad diet
and the list goes on and on.
Just from the photos,
I felt like lefty looked angry at the world.
Like he didn't deserve what happened
to him in his life.
I would love to work with Lefty
because I want to prove to him
that more than just one human can love him.
Touche is a two year old Indian Ringneck.
Unfortunately that got a butcher of a wing clip.
And wing clipping can be done
in a way that doesn't completely annihilate
or ruin the feathers from molting out
and coming back in.
However it can also be done wrong.
And I want to help bring more awareness
to the wrong way to wing clip.
Honestly, I feel like you can work
through almost anything without ever having
to clip a bird's wings.
There's only been one time I've ever told a client
to do a very minor wing clip.
And that was with a deaf and blind love bird.
(chuckles)
So a very special case.
But wing clipping is just a huge controversial thing
and I really wish people could see the effects it has
on a bird.
And Touche is the perfect candidate to show
that he was so severely clipped,
he can't balance.
He leans back to balance on his tail.
It's messing with everything about his development.
And I think if people understood how negatively
wing clipping when done wrong impacts a bird,
it could bring more awareness
to the aving community overall
about wing clipping in general.
There's so many different ways
that you can work through behavioral problems
or make it safe for your parrot
to be able to fly around wherever you live.
Without having to clip the wings.
So that's one of the main reasons I want
to work with Touche is to show people the effects
that wing clipping has on a birds development.
Now full disclaimer,
I have worked with clients
with these types of birds.
As far as Quaker parrot Indian Ringnecks.
However, I have never personally worked hands-on
with a Quaker or an Indian Ringneck as a project bird
or as a bird that I've brought into my home.
So this will be an entirely new experience
for me with these species.
Which I am excited
and incredibly intimidated about as well.
Yeah.
(laughs)
All right so now's the time
to find out which bird I'm going
to be working with.
My patrons chose,
(drums rolling)
Lefty.
Now do you feel like they chose correctly for me?
Which bird would you rather see me work with?
I would love to hear your opinion
in your comments.
Why and why not you think the patrons chose
or didn't choose the right bird
for me to work with.
Leave it in the comments.
I'm so interested to read your guys' feedback
and hear about what you would like
to see on the channel.
I'm very excited to share this journey with you.
I pick him up on May 19th
and will start working with him
and documenting his journey here on my
YouTube channel.
So please stay tuned.
I'll make a special playlist.
Please leave me all of your suggestions.
Quaker owners,
Quaker quirks.
Tell me everything you know about Quakers
that I might not already be aware of.
I would love to know anything
that is specific to male Quakers
and working with them.
I can't wait to hear what you guys have to say.
If you wanna help support project birds
head over to my Patreon.
I'll leave a link in the description.
Also the bigger part of this,
is while I will be documenting Lefty's journey
I really want to help spread the word about Lefty.
And the fact that Lefty will need a forever home
by the end of the time
that I am working with him.
So Ronies For The Love of Birds Rescue
is the one that I am working with
that I'm getting Lefty from.
I will leave all
of their information in the video descriptions.
You guys can go to their website
and apply to be an owner for Lefty
and adopt him when all my training is said and done.
I would absolutely love to have a list
of people lined up ready to adopt this bird.
So if you think that you're a good fit
or you know someone that might be a really good fit
for Lefty,
please pass them on the application
for their website.
Full disclaimer I will have nothing to do
with choosing the forever home for Lefty.
That will be completely up to the rescue.
I trust them to make the right decision on Lefty's behalf.
So that will all be done through their website.
Please go support your local bird rescues.
They are just up to their necks with
with rescue birds and needing help.
So if you can volunteer your time,
get experience working with birds,
it's the best way to do it.
I want Lefty to have the best home ever
by the end
and I'm gonna do everything in my power
to make it so that he is more adoptable,
more friendly,
more adaptable adjusted.
And a more open bird to the love
that somebody has to give out there.
So please help me spread the word.
Stay tuned with his journey
to see if this bird might be right for you.
This rescue is located in Sandy, Utah.
So ideally you would be close
to there to be able to adopt Lefty.
I'm so excited to take you guys on this journey.
Thanks for all your feedback and support.
Links in the description.
(parrot squawking)
(upbeat music)