What is Parrots Naturally?

	What is Parrots Naturally?
Our Introductory Guide to the Healthy Parrot Lifestyle

YES, we are a bird store and we try to keep the shelves stocked with all of the latest toys and accessories, but we like to think of ourselves as an extension of our breeding facility LIVE OAK AVIARY where our goal is the raising of healthy, well adjusted baby Parrots.

At Live Oak we raise more than 25 species of parrots, including Green Wing, Blue and Gold, Blue throated, Red fronted, Severe, Yellow Collar and Hahns Macaws; Moluccan, Bare eyed and Umbrella Cockatoos, Timneh and Congo African Greys, Vosmaeri, Red-sided, Solomon Island and MacGillivray Eclectus. Both black headed and Apricot headed Caiques, Yellow naped, Double yellow headed, Blue fronted, Red lored and Tucamen Amazons. We raise sun conures, fancy cockatiels and lots of delightful Pacific Parrotlets. This year we produced our first blue mutations and hopefully next year we will have lutinos and albinos.

Parrots Naturally is the realization of a dream that would incorporate our closed aviary concept and our health and nutrition philosophy into what we visualize as an Avian Resource Center, where we could share our philosophy and experience with the public. We believe that a baby parrot placed in our care, hopefully raised by the parents for the first two or three weeks or incubated artificially and then raised exclusively by hand is essentially a blank slate. Yes, there are many traits that are genetically controlled, but we believe that most of the personality and the social potential of the baby is determined by his experience with his human surrogate parents. What an awesome responsibility for those of us privileged to raise these incredible creatures.

We feel that we have a responsibility to educate the public about the wonderful creatures with whom we are privileged to share our homes and our lives. At Parrots Naturally the sale of a parrot is not a one-day event, it is an ongoing process that includes guidance through the stages of the bird's development, continuing nutritional counseling and providing access to specialists in bird behavior. We do not pretend to know all of the answers, but we do our best to lead our customers to the best resources available.

Most parrot owners today are well educated and if you are like me always eager to learn more about our feathered friends. We are happy to sponsor and recommend the incredible work done by the Parrot Education and Adoption Center (PEAC).

Arming our bird owners with appropriate knowledge helps all of us to stem the tide of unwanted and abandoned birds looking for second homes. The problem is so overwhelming that most of the rescue groups now have a waiting list for birds entering their programs.

Sally Blanchard, bird behavior pioneer, innovator and editor of the Companion Parrot Quarterly is also a wonderful source for information.

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