What is the most rehomed bird in your area?

[Terry57]

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

My friend with the rescue took in at least 100 birds when that happened. Not all at once except for the first ones they sent, after that it was Macaws and Cockatoos they sent her.

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

My friend with the rescue took in at least 100 birds when that happened. Not all at once except for the first ones they sent, after that it was Macaws and Cockatoos they sent her.

Yowza That's a LOT of birds!

 

[Terry57]

Yes it was, especially when she had 3 macs and 6 U2s at one time. She is a saint.

 

[𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒𝖞𝕻𝖎𝖈𝖆]

Yes it was, especially when she had 3 macs and 6 U2s at one time. She is a saint.

That's a lot of bird!

 

[Talaya]

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?

You’re right, I hadn’t thought of that. I can only hope he saves some of the monies coming in for their future.

 

[thebenjie]

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.

Nevada and California - Umbrella Cockatoos

 

[foxgloveparrot]

This is an old thread, but...

On Craigslist, I see some caiques (looks like a breeder) and a derbyan parakeet. That's it.
I'm surprised, usually there are a lot of budgies being rehomed.

On Petfinder there are 5 budgies, 2 sun conures, and a cockatoo.

So, actually not that many birds! And none of them appear to be in horrible situations. I'm honestly really happy about that.

I'm in the Indianapolis area btw

 

[HeatherG]

Craigslist here in the upper Midwest US has budgies and cockatiels the most. Also finches and lovebirds.

There will be few birds listed for months and months and suddenly “birds coming out your ears” including big birds like greys, cockatoos, macaws. But usually just budgies (parakeets) and cockatiels.

Many of the larger birds advertised on CL are obviously scams.

 

[Rozalka]

This is an old thread, but...

On Craigslist, I see some caiques (looks like a breeder) and a derbyan parakeet. That's it.
I'm surprised, usually there are a lot of budgies being rehomed.

On Petfinder there are 5 budgies, 2 sun conures, and a cockatoo.

So, actually not that many birds! And none of them appear to be in horrible situations. I'm honestly really happy about that.

I'm in the Indianapolis area btw

I thought that I was reading Tiki's Zourace's post until I read "I'm in the Indianapolis area" 🤣

Your new avatar confused me. I was too much attached to your Jasper pfp😆

 

[Owlet]

I live in Colorado, i use to work in a bird shop that also took in surrendered. Amazons seemed to be our more surrendered and unadopted next to budgies. Though when I volunteered at a proper avian rescue I believe their cockatoo section was the biggest, no surprise there.

 

[Rozalka]

I decided to visit a random Polish Facebook group just to see what kind of parrots are/were looking for new home in past one month:
- kakarikis (4 posts: one offers 3 pairs, another one idk how many and the third one is a pair rehoming, 4. is hand raised)
- quaker parrots (4 posts: 1. few; 2. two, 3. a lot, I think it's a QP breeder expert 4. breeder)
- Australian rigneck (one)
- Patagonian conures (a pair)
- crimson rosellas (a pair)
- Indian rignecks (two posts: 1. breeder 2. rehoming)
- Derbyan parakeets (
- regent parrot
- black capped caique
- eastern rosellas (few posts: 1. breeder, 2. single adaptation; others by an untrusted breeder)
- lovebirds (few posts, most made by an untrusted breeder)
- superb parrot
- green cheeked conures (2 posts: 1. breeder 2. not confirmed but they look young to me)
- Scarlet-chested parrot
- cockatiel (2 posts: 1. a single 2. untrusted breeder)
- sun conure (young too)
- Australian king parrots
- Princess parrots

The red ones are possibly young because there was a lot of them, so they probably were young birds bred by breeders or it was marked that the bird is young, so it isn't rather rehoming. No note about posts means that there was just one.

It's just a random group and it's not a reliable list

 

[Rico_Tiel]

Budgies and cockatiels are neck and neck here. Usually parents buying them for their kids to keep them entertained and the kid gets bored of them. IMO it’s just bad parenting. The other case is elderly people get young cockatiels and the cockatiels either outlive them, or they decide “hey I don’t want to stay in Alaska anymore, so, sorry birdy! Cant keep ya anymore! Cya! Would wanna be YA!” Like a year or two later. But people often just decide “I don’t want you anymore.” It’s really sad.

 

[zERo]

I look an Craigslist a lot and for some reason torture myself by looking at the birds.
There’s a few breeders on there, but I think cockatiels and budgies seem to be the most rehomed.
I see lots of green cheeks too, and lately, macaws.

There’s an ad up for one of my dream species, a Superb parrot. He’s in a teeny cage, their asking $200 but I can’t risk it 😞

 

[DonnaBudgie]

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

I don't even know what country this is.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Budgies and cockatiels are neck and neck here. Usually parents buying them for their kids to keep them entertained and the kid gets bored of them. IMO it’s just bad parenting. The other case is elderly people get young cockatiels and the cockatiels either outlive them, or they decide “hey I don’t want to stay in Alaska anymore, so, sorry birdy! Cant keep ya anymore! Cya! Would wanna be YA!” Like a year or two later. But people often just decide “I don’t want you anymore.” It’s really sad.

Our bird rescue here in Southern Maine, Seymour's, often doesn't have budgies available for adoption or at least doesn't have the gender you are looking for. They seem to have mostly bigger parrots many of which are life-long residents and not adoptable due to physical or psychological disabilities.

 

[Rozalka]

I don't even know what country this is.

BirdyBee is from South Africa

 

[DonnaBudgie]

BirdyBee is from South Africa

Thanks!

 

[BirdyBee]

I don't even know what country this is.

This is in south africa

 

[BirdyBee]

Oops. Only seeing Rozalka's reply now haha

 

[Terry57]

Budgies and cockatiels are neck and neck here. Usually parents buying them for their kids to keep them entertained and the kid gets bored of them. IMO it’s just bad parenting. The other case is elderly people get young cockatiels and the cockatiels either outlive them, or they decide “hey I don’t want to stay in Alaska anymore, so, sorry birdy! Cant keep ya anymore! Cya! Would wanna be YA!” Like a year or two later. But people often just decide “I don’t want you anymore.” It’s really sad.

I agree that elderly people have a higher likelihood of passing and leaving their birds, but I would guess that late teens/early twenties rehome a lot more birds than elderly people do. Their lives are completely changing and too many times they have to rehome because they have no one to keep them while they're at college.

It is a sad situation all around