Chi-Chi Macaw grows healthier every day. Since the removal of her cancerous hip joint and leg, she seems happy to be freed from the continual pain. Her new home at the refuge seems to agree with her. She enjoys the food, the non-stop activity, and the frequent attention she gets from Wendy as well as her favorite staff members and volunteers.

Recently, Chi-Chi began testing out her mobility, and like any intelligent creature, she's developed innovative techniques to get where she wants to go. You can share in her progress with this video update:

Please click on the thumbnails below to learn how you can help some special birds have a home for life through our "Virtual Adoption" program! More stories coming soon!

Birds who are now partly sponsored, thank you!

Birds who are now fully sponsored, thank you!

"This is, in a word, a great place and these miraculous creatures deserve no less, but few places can deliver it this well. It is, indeed, 'world class'."

– Stewart Metz (author and Director of the Indonesian Parrot Project), after his visit at the Grand Opening of the Refuge on August 13, 2005.

"The World Parrot Refuge is a true sanctuary where parrots live out their lives in a loving, spacious and happy environment under the guidance of extraordinarily caring people. The many visitors destined to pass through the refuge will come to understand that parrots are not toys or trophies, but beings with needs and emotions as real as our own."

– Rosemary Low (author of more than 30 books on parrots)