Snow White and Her Prince Need a New Seattle Area Home

Snow White and Prince Need a New Seattle Area Home

We'll let you guess which Budgie parrot is which. Free to the Right Home. They are a bonded pair so must be adopted together. Apparently they are not a breeding pair. Snow White is actually a found parrot. She was discovered by Prince's owner while fishing on a Seattle dock. Please give Snow White and Prince the home they deserve.

Requiem for Parrot BBF A 7593

We called him Leschi, for the Seattle neighborhood where he was found. All we know about him is printed on his red leg band: BBF A 7593.


This Budgie parrot was found on a parking lot near the Leschi Market on Lake Washington, July 2, 2012. The woman who found him thought he might be a parakeet, but had no idea what to do with him. She went to a local pet shop, which found us on an Internet search. She phoned us, saying she had no idea what to do with the bird if we didn't take him in. So we gave her our address, and about an hour later she showed up with the parrot.


We did an Internet search for the leg band number. We checked Seattle Craigslist. And 911ParrotAlert. To no avail. When he came in to the house, we transferred the parrot into an appropriate cage with food and water. The little tyke tried to eat a little. But all he really wanted to do was fluff himself up, close his eyes, and sleep. We assumed he was just really really tired. No telling how long he had been out on the loose. Sadly, he never woke up. He expired about an hour later.


At least he didn't die out in the parking lot, run over by a car, or attacked by crows. No parrot deserves this. Companion parrots depend upon people for survival. He was someone's companion parrot. There is no flock of feral Budgies in Seattle that he could have joined. He either escaped, or (as sometimes happens) was discarded and let loose by someone that tired of him. Summer is finally coming to Seattle, slowly but surely, and parrot people get careless with doors and windows. Or people are just stupid! So sad. RIP, Leschi. You deserved better.

Willawong Station: Parrots of Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo

One of the largest and least known public collections of free flying parrots on the West Coast is to be found at Willawong Station at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo. The interactive exhibit includes Budgerigar parrots, Cockatiels, and Rosellas in a setting that is designed to mimic the environment of the parrots' native Australia.

Additionally, Willawong Station hosts a colony of a New Zealand oddity, the Kea parrot, considered one of the most intelligent parrots on the planet! This surprisingly large (over two pounds) parrot has an interesting vocalization:

Let us state clearly that we adamantly oppose keeping parrots or any other wild animals in zoos. Parrots are not museum pieces, which is the way most zoos tend to treat parrots, and other wild animals. We support captive breeding for conservation purposes such as underway at the Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation Center in Qatar for the Spix's macaw. The only zoo anywhere in the world currently engaged in a parrot captive breeding program for conservation purposes, as far as we know, is Loro Parque, on Tenerife. Any other parrot exhibit at any other zoo, as far as we are concerned, has zero conservation value!