AT FEATHERS END AVIARY

We are a small home based aviary located just south of Lansing, Michigan. We became involved in parrots about nine years ago when I became aware that it was no longer legal to import birds from the wild. I have always felt that importation for our pleasure was a travesty of justice. To be honest as much as I love my birds if the habitat was there and by some magic all wrongs could be undone I would rather see them as God intended flying free.

Over the years we have been asked to take in many unwanted, abused, neglected, and at times mutilated parrots. Some have been rehabilitated and gone on to other homes some have stayed here. If you were to go through our aviary you would find many rather sad looking plucked birds. They are invariably imported, wild birds that captivity has not treated kindly. All have been paired and some have bred some have not and that is okay. I now have several pairs that the hens are beyond breeding capability and they are now retired just living out their lives together.

We believe that parrots can be happy in a human environment if raised correctly with love and kindness and placed in proper homes with people that care. We do not seek to mass produce birds and that is why if some breed and some do not that is okay. Our babies are raised in a bedroom turned into a nursery and when they are ready for a cage they come downstairs and finish weaning and learning to fly in our living room and dining room.

We are also subscribers to the Pet Bird Quarterly and attend seminars as we are able to.