ARTICLE BY: DOROTHY SCHWARZ


RESCUED AND REHOMED AMAZONS IS SO REWARDING


REHABILITATING


The old Amazons arrive Four orange-winged Amazons live in my aviary, Archie and Lena and Basil and Cybil. The former pair are in their late thirties or early forties. the latter pair between seven and ten years old. Their stories must be similar to that of many wild caught birds that change their homes for various reasons. Eight years ago our zoo was rehoming a number of their parrots. I already had a pair of pet African Greys


30 BIRD SCENE


for whom I’d built a large outdoor aviary, in which also lived a flock of poultry and a few parakeets. The zoo contacted me; would I take any of their unwanted birds. The most suitable turned out to be Archie and Lena. Like most wild caught birds their history was patchy. For twenty years, they had lived with a German couple, who bequeathed them to the zoo in 1992 or thereabouts; the original documents are lost. The curator never explained


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