I had real trouble finding a Bronze Wing back in 2011 now there seem to be a few more around. Roz at Riverbank was and is a great help for advice and I went back there as she found me a unrelated male ‘Sixx’ from her friend so I could make an unrelated pair.
alive by the mozzies but it was worth it! I also saw many locals with pet
Brotogeris and they were the most gorgeous birds in looks and personality to me especially after a local let me spend some time with their pet, I really didn’t want to give that little Canary wing back. I visited the markets around Iquitos and saw lots for sale along with other creatures, not in the best ways, all were in tiny cages and looking pretty scared. It was at this time that I made a decision to keep parrots and especially Brotogeris if I could find them when I returned to the UK.
08 BIRD SCENE
Back home in the UK I managed to persuade my then girlfriend to let me keep some parrots and started to look for Brotogeris, I had zero luck… apparently these birds used to be commonly imported but nobody made the efforts to breed them and they were difficult to find in the UK… What to do next? I didn’t want to give up the dream of keeping these amazing birds (I will hopefully return to Brotogeris in another article). Ok so no Brotogeris, so let’s look at what other South American parrots make good pets that are not too big and not too needy. I wanted birds that would be both pets and breeders not always the easiest balance in the same birds. It was then that I stumbled upon Pionus Parrots, I’m not sure from where, maybe an article in Parrots magazine or the internet maybe an Amazon wildlife program but I quickly became hooked on these especially for some reason the Bronze wings and Blue
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