I am putting this out in case there may be a person out there that it will ‘click’ with.....
Pearl (pictured) is a female Maxi Pionus. Age questimate is seven, based on the legband she had on when I homed her in 2012, which had a XL or XI, since she isn’t an extra large bird I am assuming it was an XI thus hatched in 2011. She came to me through a Craigslist ad in Massachusetts where she had been living with a young man for a short time, and he got her from some friends, no more details of her past are available. The letters on her band were HSA.
I am looking possibly to rehome her. Since my spouse died and I retired, I travel six months of the year in a smallish travel trailer. She and my two other birds, a budgie and a cockatiel, have traveled with me. The littles have plenty of room to fly around, and they really don’t need me to be in their sphere. Pearl, while basically a perch potato, is used to having the entire length of my house to fly in, and the trailer is a bit cramped for her. She is not accustomed to living in a cage, and I am her focus. My three birds all have the freedom of the house and trailer, and put themselves to bed at dusk in a cage available to them in both the house and trailer. They travel in the truck in separate cages however.
I travel with a portable 4x4x6 aviary so they can get outside in the sun weather permitting and I do this at home as well. She has an aviator harness, and while not submissive to its application, we get it done, and she is fine once it is on.
Obviously, what I want for her is what every bird owner wants for their birds, stability, a modicum of freedom to fly, and a person to attend to her. I don’t know how she would be with a male human, as my spouse didn’t spend time with her and he died in 2015 so she has had only a female human in her space since then. I would only rehome her to a person who knows bird behavior, e.g. noise and the potential to get bitten. Pearl has a flock call that is rather loud, but not used a lot, and she can bite. She does not speak human. An experienced bird person would recognize the signs she gives that she is considering biting. I will be traveling through the southern states and return to the northeast in April. PM me for more information....thanks.
Pearl (pictured) is a female Maxi Pionus. Age questimate is seven, based on the legband she had on when I homed her in 2012, which had a XL or XI, since she isn’t an extra large bird I am assuming it was an XI thus hatched in 2011. She came to me through a Craigslist ad in Massachusetts where she had been living with a young man for a short time, and he got her from some friends, no more details of her past are available. The letters on her band were HSA.
I am looking possibly to rehome her. Since my spouse died and I retired, I travel six months of the year in a smallish travel trailer. She and my two other birds, a budgie and a cockatiel, have traveled with me. The littles have plenty of room to fly around, and they really don’t need me to be in their sphere. Pearl, while basically a perch potato, is used to having the entire length of my house to fly in, and the trailer is a bit cramped for her. She is not accustomed to living in a cage, and I am her focus. My three birds all have the freedom of the house and trailer, and put themselves to bed at dusk in a cage available to them in both the house and trailer. They travel in the truck in separate cages however.
I travel with a portable 4x4x6 aviary so they can get outside in the sun weather permitting and I do this at home as well. She has an aviator harness, and while not submissive to its application, we get it done, and she is fine once it is on.
Obviously, what I want for her is what every bird owner wants for their birds, stability, a modicum of freedom to fly, and a person to attend to her. I don’t know how she would be with a male human, as my spouse didn’t spend time with her and he died in 2015 so she has had only a female human in her space since then. I would only rehome her to a person who knows bird behavior, e.g. noise and the potential to get bitten. Pearl has a flock call that is rather loud, but not used a lot, and she can bite. She does not speak human. An experienced bird person would recognize the signs she gives that she is considering biting. I will be traveling through the southern states and return to the northeast in April. PM me for more information....thanks.
But if you feel rehoming is best for you too, I completely understand that decision!
I have a male maxi pi. I'd love to take her but my husband does NOT want another bird. 
