So I don't think i'm gonna get Sam back. I will never stop looking, and I will keep posting my ads and flyers. But I do hope that whoever stole him from me is looking after him properly and giving him the love and attention he needs and deserves. I hope with every ounce of my being that I get him back someday, and I will always love him.

In the mean time, i'm going crazy without a big birb. I adore Zoe, she's my girl, but there's a large birb sized hole in my heart and I need to fill it before I lose my mind.

I decided to venture away from Eclectus this time around. So I posted an ad on Gumtree looking for a Blue Fronted Amazon. I found an ad that was posted a few days ago, and i'm fairly certain the seller posted an ad about the same birb last week. This particular birb's beak was damaged during hand raising (how the hell that happened I have no idea, I didn't ask) and the seller said in the ad that it's slowly growing back. I was drawn to this birb because it seemed so friendly even though it's in an aviary. The beak deformity made me awww, I thought it was adorable. So after going back to the ad several times, I finally decided to message the guy.

He said he was literally about to reply to my ad to show me this birb, but wasn't sure if I would be interested because of the beak and the fact that she is in an aviary. He said she has an extremely friendly personality, and while she isn't quite hand tame anymore, she does fly over to him whenever he enters the aviary, sits on him and preens his hair. He said she was going to step up the other day before one of his kids spooked her. He doesn't feel it would take very long to tame her once she's out of the aviary and being interacted with every day.
He hasn't had her DNA tested but he has bred them for many years and is confident she is female. His daughters name all of the hand raised babies but they haven't been calling her by her name since she was put into the aviary. But I don't mind it, i'll have her DNA tested myself and unless her results tell me she's a boy, i'll keep her name.

So, this is Piper.











I'll be picking her up either this weekend, or Monday/Tuesday next week.

I'm very excited!

Awww. She is precious.  You are making me more curious and less scared of birbs. 

Yay Piper!!!

I gave her some veggies for breakfast and she has been pigging out on them all morning. She really likes beans. Sam hated beans lol.