Daisy was having a nap but she woke up long enough to show off her feathers. Her recovery has been dramatic. She now seems quite at home with her new friends and surroundings. She's a wonderful bird.

When the day comes for Daisy to join the main flock I'll record her progress - but that won't be for many weeks yet. Wendy encourages new birds to form mini-flocks while they recover their health and adapt to a new home. Later, when they're ready, she moves them as a group into the main compound. Parrots have a complex social life and they need time to work out new relationships - a lot like people.

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)