Jaibu

Jaibu is a 20 year old male Alexandrine ringneck parakeet. After 10 years with his wonderful current Phoenix Landing home, he needs his next home due to her frequent travel. He has been a great eater - chop made from a large variety of veggies, scrambled eggs, and grain mix of quinoa, lentils, chia, jalapeño, grapefruit, oranges, bananas, apples, strawberries, grapes, and greek yogurt. He eats most fruits and veggies. He also eats Roudybush pellets. He can be very noisy, but overall he isn’t a consistently loud bird. He has some normal high-pitch beeps. He will join in if another bird is screaming or car-alarming. He is often a plucker, to his down, and barbers his feathers. A couple of times, he has let his green feathers grow in a bit, but he plucked them out in one sitting. He’s always barbered all of his long feathers. He talks and laughs - a lot! His phrases are “Hey Bui, where’s Jurgen (don’t know who that is), where’s the baby birdie, you wanna come out, where’s your foot, good boy, what are you doing, do you remember, do you want it, is it good, yeah, oh wow, good boy, gonna go night night, time for twinkle twinkle, come on, come here, what now.” He also says “show me your tongue”, and sticks his tongue out, then waits for you to stick out your tongue out the side of your mouth. It’s a slippery slope; it’s his absolute favorite thing in the world to do. If you say “where’s your foot”, he will lift up his foot and give you a little squeeze on your finger. He likes to chew seagrass mats, loofah, and wood sticks. He enjoys puzzle toys where he can put things inside other things, take them out, and put them back in, like stacking cups. He knows his “barrel of fun”, which lives in his travel/outside cage. Jaibu has a toy basket kept full of chewing material (sticks, chunks of seagrass mats, loofah, etc.) and shredded paper. He digs around in it and finds something to chew. Jaibu doesn’t step onto a hand. He will step up to an elbow, wrist, or rope perch if he’s flown off his cage ledge and landed elsewhere, or to get off his shower perch and go back to his cage. He goes into his travel cage by putting it on the floor next to his cage and sitting in front of it. He knows to climb down and get in, then he gets a treat for it. You can wheel his playstand in front of his cage ledge and he will climb on to it if he wants to go somewhere else in the house. He will not step up to anything (not my elbow or a perch) from his cage. If he’s flown off his cage or after a misting, he enjoys being on your shoulder and will constantly lean against your face and do his favorite “show me your tongue” game. Before we can discuss a specific bird with you, we ask that you follow our adoption process. Some birds are in foster homes that may adopt them, many other birds are waiting for our help and are not yet posted in PetFinders. The adoption coordinator in your area will work with you to find the best home for each bird, and a species and personality that works best for your family too. We want to set everyone up for success, especially our parrots. To get started, the adoption process includes completing our parrot match application and attending one of our core classes. You can find information about this process on our website at www.phoenixlanding.org/adopt IMPORTANT!! ONLY AREAS OF OPERATION: Phoenix Landing serves only Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, and northeast Florida. We do not ship birds. However, everyone is welcome and encouraged to join us for our online events. Parrots are unique and they deserve us to be informed caretakers. There are also many past event recordings available which you may find helpful. All event information can be found at www.phoenixlanding.org/events Thanks for helping parrots!