A pet parrot on the lam in Dieppe, N.B. is causing quite a flap. The bird has taken up residence in a tree and is refusing to come down.
Jeremy Scott was letting his dogs out early Friday morning when the bird flew past his wife and out the door.
“He’d been flying a tiny, tiny bit, usually from the cage to our shoulder and back,” says Scott. “We didn’t think he was able for full flight.”
Scott says he was putting up lost bird posters around his neighbourhood when he heard Cosmo squawking from the top of a nearby tree.
“We were planning on getting his wings clipped again, nobody thought he'd attempt to get out the door, especially in this weather, but birds are birds,” says Scott.
Scott tried luring Cosmo down by playing parrot sounds on his phone. He called the SPCA for help and even reached out to a tree trimming company.
Susan Whiteway runs Chirp and Dales Pet Supply Store. She has worked with many birds and offered a few tips on how to corral the Sun Conure parrot.
“They tend to fly at a horizontal angle, as opposed to coming down, so the higher they can get the better it would be to retrieve it,” says Whiteway.
“My biggest concern is he's a tropical bird, so in this type of weather, even though it's warm, as you can see when we were looking at him, he's got his head under his wing and he's all puffed up,” says Scott.
So far, attempts to retrieve the bird have been unsuccessful. Scott says he will keep encouraging Cosmo to come home.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Jonathan MacInnis
