Time
Can you provide daily flight, interaction, training and enrichment for decades?
Know Before You Bring One Home
Better knowledge.
Better lives.
Parrots are intelligent, emotional and often lifelong companions. Our practical guides help future guardians understand the real commitment before choosing a bird.
Start Here
Four questions before any parrot comes home.
Environment
Can your household safely manage noise, mess, fumes, other pets and open doors?
Care
Can you afford an avian veterinarian, a proper enclosure, fresh food and replacement toys?
Future
Who will care for the bird if your circumstances change or the bird outlives you?
Parrot Care Library
Choose with your head and your heart.
Explore 16 complete species guides covering temperament, housing, nutrition, enrichment, health and suitability. Read each guide online or open the printable two-page A4 PDF.
Good first birds
Still a serious daily commitment
B
Good first bird
Budgie
Small, social and happiest with flight, company and a varied fresh-food diet.
C
Good first bird
Cockatiel
Gentle and expressive, with important feather-dust and night-fright considerations.
GC
Good first bird
Green-cheek Conure
Playful conure character in a smaller package, with a determined beak.
L
Good first bird
Peach-faced Lovebird
Tiny, bold and territorial; never an automatic match for another bird.
S
Good first bird
Senegal Parrot
Often quieter, but needs careful socialisation to avoid one-person bonding.
For experienced guardians
Complex behaviour and serious commitment
AG
Experienced guardian
African Grey
Brilliant, sensitive and deeply dependent on routine, foraging and skilled care.
A
Experienced guardian
Blue-fronted Amazon
A gifted talker with powerful seasonal behaviour and weight-management needs.
IR
Experienced guardian
Indian Ringneck
Independent and intelligent, with a bluffing stage that needs patient handling.
SC
Experienced guardian
Sun Conure
A spectacular companion whose powerful calls can carry across several homes.
JC
Experienced guardian
Jenday Conure
Bright, busy and affectionate, with a loud voice and high social needs.
G
Experienced guardian
Galah
An athletic, intelligent cockatoo needing space, enrichment and clear boundaries.
GC
Experienced guardian
Goffin’s Cockatoo
A brilliant escape artist requiring advanced enrichment and patient training.
Expert only
Aviary-scale housing and succession planning
M
Expert commitment
Blue-and-gold Macaw
Magnificent, enormous and capable of producing kilometre-carrying calls.
UC
Expert commitment
Umbrella Cockatoo
Deeply social and exceptionally demanding as maturity changes behaviour.
SC
Expert commitment
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Bold, loud, destructive and potentially a seventy-year responsibility.
MC
Expert commitment
Moluccan Cockatoo
One of the most demanding companion parrots; adoption should come first.
Print & Share
Sixteen printable care guides.
Every species in the library includes a two-page A4 PDF covering daily care, nutrition, safety, enrichment and warning signs.
These guides provide general educational information and do not replace examination or advice from a qualified avian veterinarian.