Maria

This is Maria.

This is what we know about him:

Maria is a 28 year old male Double Yellow Headed Amazon. He was with his first family for 25 years, and his human was a truck driver. For the last several years of his life with them, he was not handled, as his dad was always gone, and his mom was terrified of him.

Maria doesn’t seem to like women much. He prefers men. Men tend to be able to handle him without much issue.

Maria is a prolific talker, and has a vocabulary with literally thousands of words. That said, he tends to get hung up on one or two phrases, and will sit there and say those phrases repeatedly, as if on a loop.

Maria needs a man who will work with him to learn to be regularly handled again, and we think he’ll make someone a bestie for life.

Age: 28

Sex: Male

Prefers: Males or Females? Definitely men.

Other Bird Aggressive? He could be if provoked.

Cage Aggressive? He can be.

Adoption Fee: $900

Cage Available: Affordable used cages available to purchase starting at $100.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:
When we say Maria is a prolific talker, read that as “Maria never shuts up.” and we’re super not kidding about that. He’s not a screamer - they’re all words, but he talks constantly.

***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.