Do not expect a young lovable baby bird to retain exactly the same personality into maturity. This is actually quite rare in my experience with hand reared parrots.


When the bird is just a youngster it will view its owner as though it was a parent but later on, especially if the parrot is very affectionate it can suddenly decide that YOU are the perfect mate!


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prepared to take it seriously you can easily make errors and many pitfalls await you. Start as you mean to go on from day one of buying your new pet and do make sure you do your homework too, read as much as you can to learn to understand your parrot. There are plenty of books to choose from these days. Do not expect a young lovable baby bird to retain exactly the same personality into maturity. This is actually quite rare in my experience with hand reared parrots. Because they are not in awe of human beings in the way that parent reared or imported birds always used to be they will “try it on” if they see that they can actually scare you! It is a mischievous streak that I have seen in many birds.


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