Northeast Avian Rescue, Inc.

06/11/2025

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY 🤔

Well now, here's a wee thing to think about - where did your cute, cuddly baby parrot come from?

Breeders do truly love the parrots they breed. They especially love taking care of the babies, which they poach (albeit legally) from their parents to "hand-rear" them.

Could YOU even begin to imagine having your babies taken from you to be reared by someone else and then sold on to an unknown fate?

Breeders are NOT conservationists.

They are preservationists.

They're preserving their livelihood - if there was no money in it, they'd never do it - guaranteed.

They're "preserving" parrots for a life of captivity in a cage in our living rooms.

Please, please: never, ever call it conservation - it's not. In fact, baby parrot sales anywhere in the world encourage poachers - legal or otherwise.

DON'T SHOP - ADOPT!

05/11/2025

If you work all day or are gone most of the day, a single parrot is a very lonely bird. We as humans cannot provide what nature meant for them.

It was one of the greatest myths of the pet trade and possibly one of the most tragic untruths of all: that parrots should be kept as single pets in order to maintain the bond between the human and the bird. A tactic designed to forge an animal’s emotional dependency on human companionship; this might be acceptable on some level if a human could be depended upon as an adequate companion to parrots, but the typical outcome has been a bird condemned to a life of loneliness.

How many parakeets and cockatiels have lived and perished as single birds all alone, sitting in their cage with a mirror? Many parrots kept as single pets are well loved, but unless they have the benefit of a positive, reciprocal relationship with humans in the household they are no less lonely. Too many birds sit day after day in empty houses, waiting for their people to come home. Parrots have no way of constructively dealing with loneliness. They are hard wired to be connected to a flock, a family, a partner. In the wild a parrot is never alone. In captivity the parrot who vocalizes or lashes out in anger to protest his aloneness typically loses his home.

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29/10/2025

Parrots should not be pets... period. There is immense cruelty in the captive parrot industry. Now, a crackdown on pet stores is underway

26/10/2025

REUNITED!!!!!!!!

Green Quaker Lost
October 26, 2025
Schenectady, New York – Foster Ave

19/10/2025

REUNITED!!! October 19, 2025

Schenectady, New York
Found green parakeet last night near Schenectady high school
October 18, 2025

An update with his condition will be posted later today.

15/10/2025

Selkirk, NY Albany County
October 15, 2025
Found blue budgie/parakeet

https://www.facebook.com/mary.miller.477404?mibextid=ZbWKwL

14/10/2025

Hello friends:

Please support this! The bill to end the sale of birds in pet stores in New York City is real and it needs to pass! It's high time to end the commercial pet trade of exotic birds!

🚨 NYC Virtual Lobby Day for Birds is tomorrow! 🦜

📅 Oct 15 | 9 AM–1 PM EDT

Support Intro 1325 to end bird sales in pet shops. NYC residents, your voice matters! No experience needed.

RSVP now 👉 vfar.org/birdlobbyday2025 💜

11/10/2025

Update - possible sighting this afternoon around Craig and Strong St

This is a shared post from ring. We are trying to get more information.

https://neighbors.ring.com/n/zAN9QBltjO

Lost parrot/conure
Schenectady, New York
October 11, 2025
Around Duane Avenue

11/10/2025

Schenectady, NY
Seen parakeet near forest and Helderberg.
They were unable to catch him.
October 11, 2025