Heartland Avian Rescue Project

10/14/2025

Reintroducing Angel! This bird has made great strides in the last 8 months -- see for yourself!

10/12/2025

Angel has a big update to share -- keep watching this space for news very soon!

09/28/2025

Come see us at Nebraska Humane Society Walk for Animals today from 11 til 1!

09/25/2025

We will be at the Nebraska Humane Society's Walk for Animals this Sunday, September 28, and we hope to see you there! It is going to be a quick one, from 11am to 1:30pm, but we will have some fun stuff to share. For the first time, you will be able to support our rescue by purchasing some of the toys we make for our own rescue birds -- created with quality parts from trusted vendors who are knowledgeable in parrot safety. We will have a limited number of each design. Cash or Venmo only -- prices from $3-$10 each!

09/11/2025

Who else loves budgies? Adopt, don't shop!

09/09/2025

Good morning friends! We are trying to get through surrender, fostering, and adoption apps this week. We have had several illnesses that have put us behind. Please check your texts, emails (including your junk and spam folders!) for communications from us. Thank you!

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09/02/2025

When a parrot rescue needs a bunch of perches… they reach out to another rescue that makes and sells them! We ordered from Monica (in Southern California), and received them in time for our latest surrender (two parrots who desperately needed perches)l Angel, the blue and gold (or blue and yellow) macaw also benefited from this rope perch that PDS calls a “trapeze” perch. Angel sometimes has trouble balancing on her various stationary perches, so this one is a bit more of a challenge. But when her foster hung a favorite toy right next to it, Angel was brave and worked out how to use it! Sometimes we make life too easy for our birds, when they really need a challenge: Angel’s foster reports that since adding the trapeze perch, Angel’s balance has improved immensely. Thank you, PDS Parrots!

09/02/2025

We have a flight of keets available! Do your parakeets need a friend or two? Do you just love budgies and would love to be the keeper of our flock (aka the budgie foster)? Click for our foster form https://forms.gle/p74KXA6AfyUrTi387 or to adopt a friend https://forms.gle/oHhRx9wmfeh73s1G7

In a study looking at how cage size and flock size altered steretypies in budgerigars, the most common parrot in captivity, researchers found that budgies housed with multiple conspecifics (not just in pairs) in larger cages showed the lowest number of stereotypes and preening behavior.

1. Polverino G, Manciocco A, Vitale A, Alleva E. Stereotypic behaviours in Melopsittacus undulatus: behavioural consequences of social and spatial limitations. Appl Anim Behav Sci. 2015;165:1430155.

08/30/2025

Hello friends! We are looking for a bottom grate for this cage. If you would have a 30x40 grate that would fit this cage (doesn't matter the color) or if you recognize the brand of this cage so we can buy a new one, please let us know!

08/26/2025

Zazoo's foster caregiver shared this video, and we think it is pretty cute! Zazoo often gets to spend time on their screened in porch, enjoying the fresh air and company of his friends. If you are interested in adopting Zazoo, or becoming a foster caregiver, visit us to fill out an application at www.heartlandavianrescueproject.org

08/26/2025

New birds alert!