Maggie Sue

About Maggie

Maggie is a Blue and Gold macaw with a big personality to match her colorful spirit. She has experienced long-term feather plucking, which means most of her body feathers do not grow back, though her flight feathers are intact. She barbers her tail and back feathers and occasionally pulls blood feathers, but she is otherwise healthy and active.

Maggie is incredibly intelligent and curious. She loves foraging games, solving puzzles for treats, and figuring out how to reach her favorite foods. Nuts and bananas are her absolute favorites, and she will work creatively to get them. She has plenty of energy and enjoys short flights, climbing, and exploring her environment.

Once she trusts you, Maggie is affectionate and playful. She knows how to give kisses, loves snuggling (sometimes upside down!), and will even let you preen her pin feathers. She enjoys being part of household activities, interacting with her people, and has previously been comfortable around dogs. Maggie will thrive in a home where she can be the center of attention, receive daily interaction, and have opportunities for enrichment and play.

She can be feisty with fast movements or when handled roughly, and she may protest showers or medical care, so a patient, confident adopter is ideal. Maggie deserves a home where her personality, intelligence, and energy are celebrated, and where she can thrive as the wonderful, playful macaw she is.

Age: 28 Hatch date 3/4/97

Sex: DNA verified Female

Prefers: Doesn’t have a preference

Other Bird Aggressive? We haven’t allowed this bird to interact with other for their safety.

Cage Aggressive? No.

Adoption Fee: $1000

Cage Available: Affordable used cages available to purchase starting at $100-to 250 up to 1000.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:
None

***Information that is universal to every bird:

1) Birds are typically not family animals. They usually choose a favorite and at best you can expect them to tolerate everyone else.

2) Birds are not great with kids, dogs, other birds, and are not cuddly with everyone, nor can they really be trained to be. Birds are flock animals, who are social creatures that need to be in a communal area where they can see the rest of the family, or you may eperience serious vocalization and behavior problems. We’ve never met a bird who is great with kids, but we have met kids who are respectful of birds.

3) Birds bite. But, you shouldn’t “take the bite”. If you’re getting bit, you haven’t earned the trust of the bird, and are pushing the bird past his/her limits. You must figure out what the bird needs, and make what you’re asking of the bird more attractive than what they are already doing.

4) Birds are not “dominance” based creatures. Your only option for birds is to earn their trust. If they are, say…on top of a cage and don’t want to come down, that is where they feel safest, not a dominance thing. They are not trying to exert dominance, they just don’t want to come down. Your job as a parrot owner is to figure out what you can do to help them trust you, and whatever you are asking to be more attractive than what they are already doing.

5) NEVER send money over the internet for adoption with any individual or organization for the adoption of an animal you have not met in person. That is almost always a scam.