Home At Last Parrot Sanctuary

30/08/2024

How about this for a delicious weekend treat for you and your beaks to share?
Banana ice cream!
Chop ripe bananas, freeze, remove from freezer and leave to slightly thaw so as not to break the blender
Blend with coconut milk - not too much or you get milkshake.
Eat straight away for healthy, delicious ice cream that all your flock, human and avian alike, will love! 😁

30/08/2024

30/08/2024

Hemmingway says thank you so much to Lisa for continuing to sponser my medications through thick and thin! They help keep me happy and healthy both physically and emotionally❣️🦜

29/08/2024

29/08/2024

Wowzers!!! Another GREAT sale!!
Here’s your chance to stock up and don’t forget to send a gift bundle to your local rescue❣️🦜

Of course Christineschopshop.com is having a Labor Day sale!! Use LaborDay24 in the coupon code at checkout and save 20% off your entire order, including our new Rescue Wish List, through Midnight on 9/2.

29/08/2024

Adoption Success Story update:
Monte is enjoying some safe outside time in the big, beautiful, custom aviary his birdie mama had built for his flock❣️🦜

28/08/2024

The beak is very sensitive and dexterous, and can perform fine tasks like feeding a tiny chick, hulling a seed or gently preening feathers. Birds use their beaks much like they use feet, to grasp items and maintain balance; "beaking" is the correct term for this behaviour. It's important to discriminate between beaking and biting so that you can provide the appropriate response when your pet bird gives you a true bite.There are several reasons that a bird might beak you as opposed to giving you a true bite. First, pet birds routinely use their beaks as a third hand to test the strength of perches and to explore new items. They also use their beaks to generally check out the physical rigidity of all climbing structures, including its owner's hand before they step up. New bird owners often confuse this exploratory beak usage with being bitten but it's Important to differentiate between the two.

28/08/2024

Bree says thank you to Nonie for creating such adorable Auction items for Home At Last Parrot Sanctuary ❣️🦜

27/08/2024

How humbled we are to be included in such an amazing way to honor Griffi!
Thank you so much for helping us help these amazing birdies❣️🦜

27/08/2024

Happy Birthday Jenni🎂

Jenni’s Birthday fundraiser for Home At Last Parrot Sanctuary.

This is Maggie. She has made tons of progress over the last couple years living at the sanctuary. She was starving and scared and very aggressive (you can see the many battle scars on the arm in the second picture left by Maggie and others who arrive from similar neglect).
Jenni and a handful of volunteers give their time, compassion, and money (and sometimes blood) to help these beautiful lost souls become whole again. Maggie is now a love bug but continues to struggle with the lasting effects of neglect.
Let’s celebrate Maggie’s progress, Jenni’s Birthday this month, and Home At Last Parrot Sanctuary by making a donation by scanning our Zelle QR code or by touching this link:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZQ7LYMH3X4V5L

Please no hateful comments..
We very much appreciate the family member that stepped in to get much needed help for her and her human who needed medical attention.

27/08/2024

Do we have any grant writers willing to submit for us?

BIG NEWS!

Harrison's Bird Foods is giving away $250,000 in 2025.

Call for Proposals: Avian Nutrition, Wellness and Conservation Grants

Introduction:
Harrison’s Bird Foods is pleased to announce a call for proposals for grants in the field of avian nutrition, avian wellness and avian conservation. This grant opportunity aims to support research and conservation projects that contribute to the understanding and promotion of health, nutrition, conservation, and overall well-being in avian species.

Focus Areas:
Proposals may address but are not limited to the following focus areas:
- Nutritional requirements for different avian species
- Effects of diet on avian health and wellness
- Behavioral and environmental factors influencing avian nutrition
- Innovations in avian feeding practices
- Impact of nutrition on avian reproduction and growth
- Avian conservation including issues related to wild avian nutrition

Eligibility:
- Researchers, scientists, and professionals in the field of avian health, conservation, and nutrition are eligible to apply.
- Individuals or teams from academic institutions, research organizations, non-profit organizations, and government agencies are encouraged to submit proposals.

Grant Details:
- Grant Amount: up to $50,000 per project
- Duration: 1 year or less
- Funding is intended to support research expenses, including materials, equipment, and personnel costs.

Proposal Guidelines:

Interested applicants are required to submit a detailed proposal including the following:

Cover page (1 page)
Title
Authors
Organization name(s) If applicable

Project Proposal (3 pages total)
Abstract (~250 words)
Background and significance of the study
Research objectives
Methodology
Expected outcomes and impact
Budget and timeline (2 pages total)
Project timeline
Budget
Budget justification
CV for the individual or the team (3 pages maximum per CV)

Submission Deadline:
All proposals must be submitted by October 31, 2024 via email to:
[email protected]

Selection Process:
Proposals will be evaluated based on scientific merit, relevance to the field, feasibility, and potential impact. Successful applicants will be notified within 30 days of submission.

Contact Information:
For inquiries and submission of proposals, please contact
Dana O’Donoghue, CEO, Harrison’s Bird Foods,
[email protected], 615-221-9919.

We look forward to receiving innovative proposals that will advance our collective understanding of avian nutrition and wellness.

Thank you for your interest in this grant opportunity.
Parrots and the Planet over profits!

!

27/08/2024

Adoption Success Story Update:
Petie, sun conure adopted this year, is snuggling his new birdie mama❣️🦜

26/08/2024

Jenni’s Birthday fundraiser for Home At Last Parrot Sanctuary.

This is Maggie. She has made tons of progress over the last couple years living at the sanctuary. She was starving and scared and very aggressive (you can see the many battle scars on the arm in the second picture left by Maggie and others who arrive from similar neglect).
Jenni and a handful of volunteers give their time, compassion, and money (and sometimes blood) to help these beautiful lost souls become whole again. Maggie is now a love bug but continues to struggle with the lasting effects of neglect.
Let’s celebrate Maggie’s progress, Jenni’s Birthday this month, and Home At Last Parrot Sanctuary by making a donation by scanning our Zelle QR code or by touching this link:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZQ7LYMH3X4V5L

Please no hateful comments..
We very much appreciate the family member that stepped in to get much needed help for her and her human who needed medical attention.

26/08/2024

A very special thank you to Christine at Christine’s Chop Shop from the flock for all the super extra yummy foods you send us!!
Thank you for helping needy birdies all across the US and thank you for making such wonderfully delicious and healthy foods❣️🦜
Shop christineschopshop.com for veterinary approved super healthy treats and daily foods for your Birdie buddies🦜🦜🦜🦜🦜

25/08/2024

This is not a scare tactic - this is fact and unfortunately some facts are scary! DO NOT FEED to your birds or kids!

A new EWG investigation finds for the first time troubling concentrations of the toxic agricultural chemical chlormequat in conventional oat-based products sold in the U.S., including everyday brands marketed to adults and children. Buy Organic and avoid this toxin and others! I know a lot of people feed Cheerios and it is not good !

25/08/2024

Awesome Bird toys back in stock❣️🦜

Halloween foot toy baskets and boxes are now available.
www.thebirdhousebirdtoys.com

25/08/2024

Darling Update:
1st picture:
Darling, an African Red Bellied parrot, arrived here one year ago along with Bree (a macaw). They were emergency intakes delivered by Animal Services from another county. They were taken from a horrific situation in which both had suffered severe neglect.
Darling was emotionally checked out upon arrival. He wouldn’t respond or eat - he was just vacant. We let him decompress but after a a couple of days we really needed him to eat. He wouldn’t even touch seed which had been his diet up to this point. Miraculously on day 3, he tried a Birdie Brittle Bite from Christine’s Chop Shop (it’s a treat but it’s healthy food too) and that was it! He began to try other freeze dried goodies and then pellets and then even fresh foods!
2nd picture:
Fast forward one year and here he is! Darling is sassy and animated, although he still suffers occasional panic attacks when pressed too much, he is living his best life at Home At Last Parrot Sanctuary.
We attribute his incredible turn around, and that of so many others in our care, to patient and loving care and great nutrition❣️🦜

24/08/2024

Dear Felix Diary Thingy,

High Alerts Emergency Evacuation Protocalling Red Zone!!! Again.

Weirdo Neighborling is on the moving! Yesterday, in The Felix Weirdo Neighborling viewing window. Day before the yesterday, in the other Felix Weirdo Nieghborling viewing window on the other side of the Felix house. And now, I am eating before breakfast snack attack pasta wheelies, and there he is. Again. Right there. In my face which is busy trying to eat. I can't look at that and eat. He knows this. I told me so the day before the yesterday!

"Move your face weirdo! I can't look at that and chew!"

"Felix! Stop yelling at the window."

"HEY WEIRDO! I can still see your face!"

"FELIX. Shhhh! We're the only ones awake, yet. Be nice! Just chill and enjoy the sunrise."

"WEIRDO is in my sunrise! Right there in my face in front of my sunrise. Are you even paying the attentions?"

"Did you just throw a pasta wheelie at the window?!?"

"Weirdo left me no choice! Obviouslies you are not paying the attentions and I am going to die of the low blood sugars because I can't chew with that face in front my sunrise!"

And then she finallies put my breakfast bowl in. And ...broccoli on top of cantaloupies which were obviouslies rectangled.

"I can't campaign the presidentials and die at the same time."

"Fee! Do not throw all that out on the floor. I just gave it to you!"

"What is THIS?"

"Felix, stop."

"Rectangled."

"Felix."

"Nope."

"Felix!"

"Boom goes the wrong!"

"Felix! Not on the dog."

"Green melon chunkers? Why did you even bother?"

"Com'on Felix! That just fell under the chair."

"You should have put it there in the firstlies."

"Felix!"

And then at the bottom of my bowl. It was all wrong from the starter. Which reminds me of the other thingy.

The presidentialing opponents of The Felix are calling each other other "weird". As the ifs I have not been saying it first! All the time! Before yesterday. Before the day before yesterday, alsotoo. From the starter!

I have instructioned my Campaign Communicationing Director to make buttons and Shirts about this immediatlies! I'm not the weirdo, they are."

The Felix/Cobb Campaign is High Alerts Emergency Evacuation Protocalling Red Zone!!! Again.

24/08/2024

Holy Moly!!! Another great sale from Christine’s Chop Shop❣️🦜

24/08/2024

Beauty says thank you so much to Carmen, Trudy, and Patricia for sending us a gift bundle specially made for Home At Last Parrot Sanctuary from Christine’s Chop Shop!
We sooooo appreciate the yummies❣️🦜

If you would like to purchase a gift bundle full of items we use daily for Home At Last Parrot Sanctuary here is the link:

https://christineschopshop.com/shop/ols/products/home-at-last-gift-bundle