For me the biggest issue with them would be noise levels. I live in an apartment (a huge nearly sound proof one with few neighbors) and i've met many amazons that are well suited to apartment living and most of the amazon owners i'm meeting live in apartments with no issues and i'm not sure i've met a single cockatoo that is in an apartment. They love to be heard.Thanks, cockatoos are a whole other ball game . Depending on the species. Again there are traits & individual temperaments ,family dynamics to consider. Exotics are high maintenance indeed.
Yeah, i definitely plan to spend enough time with any amazon i might rescue to get a feel for it's vocal behavior. When i volunteered at the rescue the macaws and cockatoos were SO F'ING LOUD haha. The amazons, like 6 or 7 of them were all just very zen, they were just playing and mostly just being little sentinals keeping an eye on the other birds and this enormous tall hairless ape that showed up to clean the crap out of their cages for the afternoon.
OUt of curiosity, have you tried training and desensitization to address this biting behavior?
I texted them. It's a scam. They were quite friendly till I said i wanted to visit. I'm getting screening the bird flippers and scammers down to a science haha. Say you want to visit and meet the bird a couple times to see if you even get along and see if they care AT ALL what kind of home you're going to provide for it and the scammers/flippers just ignore you.
I see them come up when i do nation wide searches on the pet adoption search engines. I would LOVE to go up there but it's really far. I might consider it if nothing turns up a bit closer. Right now i'm willing to do about a 10 hour round trip.
I'd like something larger and intelligent but not as large and loud as a macaw and as loud as a cockatoo. It was my experience with a macaw that originally started my interest in owning some sort of parrot. I love the hammy playful personalities of amazons as well as their somewhat more independent attitudes than some other species as well as their somewhat less delicate personalities and being less prone to self mutilation habits and being more eager for or accepting of physical effection than some of the species you mentioned. The amazons i've been around and the many people i've asked to talk about their experiences living with their amazons they're very social and playful but also content much of the day to entertain themselves on their play gym or just passively observe the goings on around them. I'm intrigued by the experiences the amazon owners I know have with their intelligence and talking abilities in conjunction with being able to pick up on impressive things like using human vocalizations in a contextual way (Such as mimicking laughter when somebody trips because they observe humans laughing when that happens.) they've picked up from observing the humans around them. Basically they seem like fun if not challenging pets that can be great companions without being too codependent. I did a lot of searching and for what i do day to day amazons just seem like a good fit.
