It is often a massive deal giving up a parrot. Whatever your reasons for rehoming your bird with us, please understand that we are committed to providing the best care that we can. We love each and every one of our feathered friends and our promise to them is to give them what we consider to be the best chance of happiness. So what happens to your parrot when it first arrives?

The Quarantine Process
You will have been asked to fill in a detailed questionnaire about your bird which we will go through with you. We will then take your parrot into our quarantine unit (away from the main aviary). This is because all of our birds live together, so we need to ensure the continued health of the flock. Your parrot will remain in one of our quarantine cages for 28+ days. There may well be other birds in quarantine at the same time, these will become a mini flock - housed separately but near each other. Whilst in quarantine, your bird will be assessed by a vet and undergo various health screenings and treatments.

The Integration Pens
Once all results from the various tests have come back and any necessary action taken, your parrot and any other birds that it has been quarantined near, will be taken to the main aviary. They will be placed in our integration pens which are situated in a corner of the parrot house. This allows the new parrots to reorientate themselves and become familiar with the noise, life and chaos of a mixed aviary. All the parrots can get to know each other safely through the wire. The birds will stay in here anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks - depending on the nature of the individuals.

The Aviary
At this point, your parrot is ready to be released into the big aviary where it will be free to make friends, fly, socialise, eat, bath, climb, screech, sleep and just be a parrot.

Because our parrots have access to both indoors and outdoors, we are very aware of the need for new birds to be acclimatised to North Yorkshire’s weather. Because of this, we only accept new parrots between 1st March and 7th September. This allows them to go through the whole rehoming process and be released prior to the weather turning.

We will take birds only in the 1st 7 days of each month. This allows us to quarantine them in small groups that are caged separately but can then enter the integration pens as friendship groups.

So birds are accepted into our care between these dates:

1-7 March
1-7 April
1-7 May
1-7 June
1-7 July
1-7 August
1-7 September

If our quarantine area is fully allocated, we will run a waitlist.

This MUST be filled in prior to rehoming your parrot with us. It can be found under the rehoming tab.

Our maximum capacity has been set at 100 parrots. This is to ensure that each and every one of them can be looked after to the best of our ability. Due to the different personalities of different parrot breeds and how they interact with others, we have set limits to the numbers of each type. Once we have reached those numbers, we are at full capacity.

However, parrots grow old, they might have underlying chronic health conditions or occasionally accidents can happen, so the numbers may fluctuate. Again, we will run a waitlist of the details of anyone who wants to rehome with us and if space becomes available, we will get in touch.

Please refer to ‘Our Current Birds’ for the numbers we currently have.

We will only take in parrots if we can guarantee that we can look after them and offer them the best of care. This comes at a price. These are the costs incurred yearly for the parrots (individually and for 100 parrots).
Initial vet checks & health screening: £200+ (£20,000)
Feed per year: £85 (£8,500)
Insurance: £400
Heating: £500
Electrics: £150
Water: £30
Worms & mite treatment: £500-£1,500
Medical Emergencies: As required
Maintenance: As required

This is why we need to fund raise.

Not all parrots will fit in here, we are realistic about this. Some species are not compatible with our flock; some parrots need 1:1 with a human; or we simply might have reached maximum capacity.

Here is a list of other rescue centres and sanctuaries that might be able to help. There are others too that we haven’t as yet had any dealings with.

Lincolnshire Wildlife Park
Avian Angels Parrot Rescue
The Haven Parrot Rescue
Parrot Trust Scotland
Birdman Parrot Rescue

If you simply want some advice or want to immerse yourself in parrotiness and are on social media, check out ‘The Well Fed Flock’ and ‘Flock Call’. These sites appear to have a similar ethos to us for all things parrot.