PEDRO

This is Pedro.

This is what we know about him:

Pedro is a 36 ish year old Blue Front Amazon. While he hasn’t been handled much in the last 20 ish years, he seems to be pretty open to it now, but takes a little while to warm up to the person handling him.

He lost his human in January of 2025, and was surrendered as a result.

When he was younger, he preferred hanging out with the daughter of his owner more than anyone else, and it’s also our experience with him that he seems to prefer females here at the rescue as well.

While I do have to towel him to get him out now, we think it’ll be pretty easy to get him acclimated to stepping up by earning his trust and positively rewarding him for trust building exercises.

I typically just sit and spend a few minutes talking with him and sharing some pistachios with him and he is usually really interested in interacting and hanging out with me after that.

Step ups might take a bit to earn - but once out of his habitat, he steps up from the table, floor and other surfaces readily.

He’s nervous and wary - but to be fair, he’s only had ambient attention for the last two decades of his life - but based on my interactions with him, I think he will be someone’s heart bird pretty quickly with the right amount of nurturing and trust building.

Age: 36

Sex: Male (presumed)

Prefers: Males or Females? Females

Other Bird Aggressive? We haven’t allowed him to interact with other birds.

Cage Aggressive? No. He’s more nervous.

Adoption Fee: $900

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

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:
He will need you to build trust and spend time interacting and helping him remember how to be handled regularly.

***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.