I haven’t been on tumblr lately due to life and this guy. I don’t know if Melon (that’s the name I gave the birb.) is a male or a girl. However he is a ringneck parakeet, and I had found him with a broken wing as I was walking home. I scooped him up (after him biting me three times and screaming like a 5 year old child) and took him to the nearest vet to see what I should do. They told me that because he’s an invasive species, if I didn’t want him, they would put him down. He’s still a juvenile so I decided to take him home. The vet taped his wings together so they could heal. I took him to another vet because he wasn’t eating and they did a thorough check up on him.
Currently, I am in the midst of trying to tame this guy so we can go on adventures. (I’m not clipping his wings, I am thinking of getting him a bird harness once he is trained and comfortable with me and my boyfriend first.
Indian Ringneck Parakeet
Age is somewhere between 4-7 months (I’m guessing?????)
Any advice would be great. Just don’t scold me for saving him. I live in Hawaii and there are very strict guidelines which is why the vet told me to keep him as a pet. As the ringnecks in Hawaii are introduced as pets but they had ran away from the pet shop and started to expand.
By the way, it was not a pet shop. I learned that we had a bird emporium in Manoa valley where Manoa falls are. That’s where the birds escaped from.
And Melon is now 7 years old she is my baby.
