Living with a trio of male Red-fronted Macaws

by Dr Jared C. Workman

I cannot say with any certainty when I decided I wanted a bird.  I had grown up as an animal lover and had owned cats for most of my life, but living with a parrot was always at the back of my mind.  When my wife and I moved to Colorado in 2003, for me to attend graduate school, I began thinking my life was now stable enough to have a parrot.  After running across a Quaker Parakeet in a pet store a few months later, my quest for a bird began.

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