What is the most rehomed bird in your area?

[StormyPica]

What is the most rehomed bird in your area? Please state your area nad which species of bird you think is the most rehomed or surrendered to pet shops, rescues, new owners, etc.

Here (VT, USA), I think it's budgies.

 

[StormyPica]

This is also a survey, so please, if you see this thread, take a minute out of your day to just comment what you think!

 

[Terry57]

I'm in Alberta, Canada and here I would say it's Conures, followed by Finches and Budgies.

 

[Jexnell]

The local bird rescue has alot of Macaws. A couple Cockatoos and a single Amazon. No little birds at all.

 

[BirdyBee]

I will see what birds are available in Cheeky Beaks Parrot Rescue at the moment. I will add the numbers here.

On Gumtree, most of the birds are budgies. Sadly they seem to be a common pet to rehome.

ETA:

CORRECTION:

By available, I mean birds living in the rescue.

 

[wrench13]

O'l Tomahawk was rehomed 17 times! Legendary. Oops, you mean what species??

 

[BirdyBee]

At the moment in EC province there is one budgie, I wish I had screenshots from October, at that time there were so many, cockatiels, budgies.. so many birdies...

GP:
5 Cockatiels
12 Congo African Greys
5 Indian Ringneck Parakeets
1 Alexandrine Parakeet
7 Budgerigars
1 peach fronted conure
1 sun conure
1 Black Wing Jardine
1 Bronze Wing Pionus
2 Eclectuses
2 Senegals
1 Hahns Macaw


WC:
2 Budgerigars
8 African Greys
3 Lovebirds
1 Alexandrine Parakeet
1 Indian Ringneck Parakeet
1 Monk/Quaker Parakeet
1 Red lored Amazon
1 Hoffman conure
1 Eclectus
7 Cockatiels
1 Blue-Crowned conure
1 Blackwing Jardine
5 Senegals

KZN:
2 Eclectuses
2 Cockatiels
1 Green Cheeked Conure
2 Indian Ringneck Parakeets
1 Congo African Grey
I Blue Fronted Amazon

LP:
1 Congo African Grey

MP:
3 Congo African Greys

NW:
2 Congo African Greys
1 Blue And Gold Macaw
1 Hahns Macaw
1 Indian Ringneck Parakeet
3 Cockatiels





If think post gets deleted... I will not be happy to say the least.

 

[Terry57]

At the moment in EC province there is one budgie, I wish I had screenshots from October, at that time there were so many, cockatiels, budgies.. so many birdies...

GP:
5 Cockatiels
12 Congo African Greys
5 Indian Ringneck Parakeets
1 Alexandrine Parakeet
7 Budgerigars
1 peach fronted conure
1 sun conure
1 Black Wing Jardine
1 Bronze Wing Pionus
2 Eclectuses
2 Senegals
1 Hahns Macaw


WC:
2 Budgerigars
8 African Greys
3 Lovebirds
1 Alexandrine Parakeet
1 Indian Ringneck Parakeet
1 Monk/Quaker Parakeet
1 Red lored Amazon
1 Hoffman conure
1 Eclectus
7 Cockatiels
1 Blue-Crowned conure
1 Blackwing Jardine
5 Senegals

KZN:
2 Eclectuses
2 Cockatiels
1 Green Cheeked Conure
2 Indian Ringneck Parakeets
1 Congo African Grey
I Blue Fronted Amazon

LP:
1 Congo African Grey

MP:
3 Congo African Greys

NW:
2 Congo African Greys
1 Blue And Gold Macaw
1 Hahns Macaw
1 Indian Ringneck Parakeet
3 Cockatiels





If think post gets deleted... I will not be happy to say the least.

No worries Pipp, this is an extremely well done post.

Greys do come up here often as well, which always surprises me. Both of my CAGS were given to me.

 

[Terry57]

O'l Tomahawk was rehomed 17 times! Legendary. Oops, you mean what species??

O'l Tomahawk?

 

[BirdyBee]

No worries Pipp, this is an extremely well done post.

I was so worried I'd accidentally delete it, luckily nothing happened!

For those of you who don't know the abbreviations..

EC= Eastern Cape
WC= Western Cape
GP= Gauteng Province
KZN= KwaZulu-Natal
MP= Mpumalanga Province
NW= North West
LP=Limpopo Province

Plus some others I didn't mention:
NC= North Cape
FS= Free State

 

[Terry57]

Thankfully in my area there is only 1 page on Kijiji.

On that page are:

3 Conures

1 IRN

1 Brown-headed Parrot

1 Military Macaw

3 Alexandrines

2 CAGS

1 Hahn's Macaw

 

[Rozalka]

This is also a survey, so please, if you see this thread, take a minute out of your day to just comment what you think!

I see this thread but I have no idea I don't have any data

Honestly I know just one rescue bird center in Poland but they have just escapees, so I don't think it counts

I have no data for any pet shops... In the past I was seeing how others were rehoming their parrots on fb groups but they were just single posts + most of them I saw on a conure group so it doesn't count again because of not including other parrots

Shortly: I have no enough data to mention any species

 

[StormyPica]

Craigslist:
3 VERY neglected ekkies
1 Pionus
3 Quakers
1 Bearded Dragon being traded for a macaw
1 Grey
1 Sun Conure
28 Budgies, 22 are being stuffed in a small cage and also severely neglected
5 Finches
17 canaries

PetFinder:
10 Budgies
1 Amazon
2 Finches

 

[Laurasea]

I search a lot ( incase I can find Neptune)
Always quakers, and budgies, often gcc.

Today
5 budgies re homes
5 baby budgies hand raised looking fir home
9 quakers
11 IRN ( different posters)
Several green cheek conure around 8
2 sun conure
1 nandays conure
1 bf conure
Love burd babies
Cocktail babies
3 electus
3 cockstoo
2 macaw
2 caique
Edit : went through fir sale
2nd edition added classifieds
So today ranked
CONURES ( COMBINED SPECIES)
IRN
BUDGIES
QUAKERS
LOVE BIRDS
COCKTAIL
COCKATOO
ECECTUS
MACAW
CAIQUE

 

[Talaya]

In my area not a lot, we have one centre that takes them but doesn’t really like to rehome them.
but in the UK we only have 3 main parrot charity rescues, maybe a couple of smaller ones dotted around.
anyway, it definitely is CAG every Month there are new ones looking for homes.Amazon’s, Alexandrines, IRN, and Macaws pop up regularly too, even young ones. I think the biggest is one called Problem Parrots, not a great name when you’re trying to find a new home for your wards!
I did go to one centre- a private ‘collector’ had had a few acres and built aviaries, so takes in unwanted parrots and gives them a permanent home. The CAG aviary was huge & must have had 60 in it. So was the Alexadrines And budgies, he also had about 25 Macaws of different types, all free , but they knew where the food was coming from. He opens to the public so he can raise money for their care. lots were free flighted to just fly around the centre as they pleased.
this cute little fella below, followed us around for ages, he wouldn’t leave me alone , he managed to break my zip, chew my hair clip and then went to my hubby and broke his watch strap.He left us and started on the next persons shoelaces that was sitting on a bench. Free but still destructive. I’m sorry I don’t know what he is. I couldn’t get a pic of the CAG enclosure as it was so big I couldn’t get it in frame.

 

[Cottonoid]

I hope someone will tell me that troublemaker new friend you made is a Patagonian Conure

 

[StormyPica]

I hope someone will tell me that troublemaker new friend you made is a Patagonian Conure

@GaleriaGila I think we just found RB's twin brother!

 

[wrench13]

The big problem with places like this rescue @Talaya mentioned is that once the owner of the property passes away (and we all pass away), unless he is fortunate enough to leave a sizeable chunk of $$$ in his will, all these rescued, but not rehomed, parrots are going to suffer, a lot. Sounds like he has an adequate facility for flocks this size, but who cares for them once he is gone?

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

Up here in Manitoba, Canada, it's easily cockatiels, Budgies and Green Cheek Conures. Lovebirds are in there as well, but they're not as common.

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

The big problem with places like this rescue @Talaya mentioned is that once the owner of the property passes away (and we all pass away), unless he is fortunate enough to leave a sizeable chunk of $$$ in his will, all these rescued, but not rehomed, parrots are going to suffer, a lot. Sounds like he has an adequate facility for flocks this size, but who cares for them once he is gone?

EXACTLY! They just had a huge fiasco with Greyhaven exotic rescue a few years back here in Canada. The property was sold and they had 3 months to clear out all the birds