I'm curious to know what this guy thinks about how you care for Parker and Parker's setup?
I once tried to help an orange wing amazon by the name of "Mouth". Mouth was not tame or friendly. He didn't talk. As far as the family was concerned, they "rescued" him from a worse home.... and yet they kept him in a corner "finch" cage that Mouth was chewing apart (hence wires and rope holding the wire mesh to the sides). The cage was a mess and they fed him cheap bird food from Wally World....
Mouth had no toys. He lived in a home where everyone smoked. They rarely ever gave him anything other than seed. He was covered up frequently because he was noisy. Thanks to some help from my local bird club, I was able to provide him with a parrot cage (albeit not large), three manzanita perches (that I sanded down using a battery operated dremel - pain in the arse!), a large wooden block toy and I think new food dishes (because, hey, once again! cheap plastic perches!).
The following image shows his old cage vs his new cage.
A close up of him
Mouth and his cage
And his first bath in who knows how many years....
Sadly, I think I did more harm than good. I tried to educate them about diet. I tried to let them know the various kinds of foods that Mouth could eat. I even lent them my "Healthy Bird Cookbook" so they could get ideas on foods and have it for reference. What this resulted in was them cooking chicken wings, eating the meat off the bone, then tossing said chicken bones into his cage. Can we say bacteria galore?????
Mouth did at least chew up his toy... although I think the owners had that stupid mentality that if your animal destroys it's toys, it must hate toys, so why bother buying toys when all they are going to do is destroy them???? Without realize that is exactly *WHY* they need toys!
I knew the son in the family, but we were never close (not even as friends) and at one point in time he talked about helping me to steal Mouth and giving him a better life. We ended up having a "fading-out" (to put it lightly... no longer on speaking terms) and I did eventually end up calling Animal Control on them.... and they in turn called AC on me... (not that AC found any problem with my set up, other than the fact that I had a bunch of leaves covering the floor of the room that I had *JUST* stripped from some dried out branches! LOL)
Anyway, when I saw the son some years later, I found out that Mouth had died from a gas leak, so the son converted the bird cage into a ferret cage.
I can't help but wonder, if I had done something differently.... maybe if I could have tried to convince the owners to give him up to me.... maybe he'd still be alive. Maybe he'd be happier. He didn't deserve the life of a "trophy bird" abandoned in the corner of the dining room, then covered up because they couldn't put up with him.... made worse by the fact that they thought that they had rescued him from a bad situation when in reality they just transferred him from one bad home to another. I kid you not, they were proud of the fact that they "rescued" him out of a bad situation.
If education doesn't work, then I vote for finding the bird a new home. As long as animals have 3 basic necessities - food, water and shelter (living in a clean environment), the law doesn't care about anything else. It doesn't matter that the food is crap, that the animals have no enrichment, or that their crammed in a tiny cage, animal control can't do much about it.
At least, that's my opinion of it, after having gone through a situation where a bird was poorly lacking in care and the owners didn't care to improve it. Animals shouldn't suffer because of our desires.
Oh, what a stupid guy! I cannot stand this attitude! I got my bird on impulse, but the night before we got him I was reading until 3-4am and since then I'm constantly learning about parrots. I'm also trying to volunteer at a local bird shelter to get some hands on experience with them. And I have a tiny gc conure. 
This guy dared to get an Amazon, and he doesn't know how to properly care for this bird, and the worst thing is - he DOESN'T WANT to know!
