The only store I would trust online is one that actually has a physical location and the one that sticks with me is ParrotStars -https://www.parrotstars.com/default.asp . They'd recently (in the past year or so) opened a store in Arlington Heights, IL, where I used to live but their breeding program is in Florida. I'd visited their store several times and interacted with an absolutely gorgeous female Palm cockatoo; her story was that she had been bred to be part of their breeding program but wanted absolutely
nothing to do with any males she met or anything to do with breeding. She'd let you scritch her head and in fact would lower her head for you to scritch her. When you did, the feathers on her face covering her pink skin would gently fold away so you got the complete effect. Beautiful, beautiful big girl
BUT, the one big
BUT was that she definitely preferred men. She would drop me like a hot potato for scritches with my eldest son when I took him to visit the store; she'd been on a perch in front of me, saw him, lifted up her head and moved to perches over to sit in front of him where she promptly lowered her head for scritches.
My largest bird is a Sun conure along w/tiels, Quakers and gccs and James has never been a bird person but I think the Black Palm converted him. He was duly impressed and in total awe. I believe
@d_msparkles got her beautiful gcc from them and we were able to get
@Macawnutz to the store just before she had a medical appointment.
I also like them because it was a bird only store, it was spotless and so were all the cages and food/water bowls considering that parrots don't usually leave clean things clean for long. They also sold fresh chop that they made as well as nuts and other foods. They were also educational, had classes and didn't just sell a bird right off. Their requirement was that once you had chosen a bird you had to wait a couple of weeks to take it home. During that time, the chosen bird was separated and you would visit it w/whoever else was part of the family and everyone had to learn how to handle it, what to feed it, the right size cage and recommendations for toys.
They weren't cheap but they had a contract the buyer would have to sign in order to take one of their birds home; a bird could be returned but there were several requirements to a return. One of the "vendors" @ the local bird fair had bought one of their birds and wanted to return it; she'd bad mouthed them to me saying that they wanted her to pay to return it. So, being the (ahem) direct person I am and being an acquaintance of the store manager's mother I asked about it. Part of the contract signed when buying one of their birds covered returns; the former buyer would get their purchase price back minus the cost of a complete avian exam and a quarantine period (in a separate building)
after quarantine was over. I'll also add that the so-called "vendor" in question had shown up @ the local bird fair with 2 Queen of Bavaria conures which was was not banded and should have been since they are protected. She'd claimed a Mexican relative had brought them to her.
I have photos taken at the store if you're interested.