Our pets

Parrot: Georgia

Georgia is a Genday Conure and is about 10 years old. She came from a breeder in the Media area. She has peach-colored markings on her head, hence her name, because Georgia is famous for its peaches. Her plumage has different tones of green, aquamarine and pure blue. Her colors are brilliant when she is outside in the sunlight. She's intelligent, though a bit ornery. She loves eating pieces of bread and corn chips and Cheerios with her feet.

Georgia escaped once about 7 years ago. I had her outside and her wings hadn't been clipped recently. She sprung from my shoulder and flew high up in a neighbor's oak tree, and my sons and I tried to catch her by knocking her out of the tree. We tried for hours until finally, around dusk, she flew out of range. The family was heart sick. We put up lots of Lost Pet posters and contacted all the local veterinarians and animal shelters. Then, four days later, and about a mile-and-a-half away on the other side of town, a nurse was sitting on her steps around sunset looking at a group of birds feeding in a walnut tree some distance away in a neighbor's yard. The tree was in sunlight and she saw this resplendent green parrot among the other birds. She thought that maybe she could lure the parrot by holding up her hand and making a perch with her index finger, and the moment she made that move, sunlight instantly illuminated her hand and arm, and the parrot flew to her and landed on her finger. She shut the parrot in a small room and bought a cage, and called the local animal hospital and gave them the number on the band. The next day when we called this animal hospital for an update, they told us someone had found a parrot and we took her address and phone number, called, and then rushed over to the nurse's house. Georgia had been saved. It was a miracle.