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FEATHERS and BEAKS Page 2 Meet Your FPR Officers! Page 3 Your Officers Are Here to Serve and Support You, the Volunteers and Fosters, in Any Way They Can F L O R I D A PARROT RESCUE FEATHERS S P E C I A L P O I N T S O F INTEREST: AND BEAKS Adoptions are VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 NEWSLETTER 1ST QUART E R 2 0 1 1 way up!! Pg 1 Letter from the Director Pg. 2 Adoptions Are Way Up! For the year 2010, we had 261 (Umbrella Cockatoo); Chili (Blue Volunteer of the intakes of birds and 173 adop- & Gold Macaw); CJ (Quaker); month Pg. 2 tions, the most ever! Way to go Clancy (Sulfer Crested Cocka- team! However, Florida Parrot too); Duffy & Sunny (pair of Sun Meet your FPR Rescue has already begun this Conures); Emerald (Eclectus); Officers! Pg. 3 year with a huge number of Harvey (Sun Conure); Hob & adoptions, 58 as of March 31st! Knob (pair of quakers); Kai Scooter the Reprint Article Let’s keep up this momentum (Caique); Lily (Nansun Conure); Blue & Gold Macaw by Dr. Barbara and continue to spread the Lilly (Goffin Cockatoo); Lokie word to our families, friends, co- (Sun Conure); Lola (Sun Conure); Heidenreich Pg. workers and anyone else you Lucky (Quaker); Lulu (Amazon); 3-4 can think of. Keep in mind we Mae (Caique); Mango (Moluccan always need new fosters as well. Cockatoo); Marley (Nanday Con- The Vet Chirps Remember that our foster/ ure); Monkey (Quaker); Ollie in! Pg .5 adoption application is available (Cockatiel); Opal (Umbrella o n o u r w e b s i t e Cockatoo); Oscar (Blue & Gold Teak the Lily the Nansun Upcoming (www.floridaparrotrescue.com) Macaw); Pascualito (Quaker); Quaker Conure events & Volun- and can be e-mailed after com- Peachey (Peach Front Conure); pletion to flparrotres- Pretty Bird (Cockatiel); Princess teer opportuni- [email protected]. We begin proc- (Indian Ringneck); Ringo (Jenday ties Pg. 5 essing applications as soon as we Conure); Rose (Bare Eye Cocka- receive them electronically. Re- too); Rosie (Umbrella Cockatoo); FPR meet and quirements for adoption or fos- Rosie (Blue & Gold Macaw); greet Party! ter are as follows: all dogs and Roxie & Cody (Pair of Cocka- Rosie the Um- Host your own!! cats owned must be up to date tiels); Rudy (Mexican Red Headed brella Cockatoo on vaccinations and dogs on Amazon); Scooter (Yellow Col- Pg. 5 heartworm prevention, all birds lared Macaw); Scooter (Blue & owned must have been seen by Gold Macaw); Shreck (Blue & Healthy food a vet within the past year with Gold Macaw); Skittles (Dusky choices for your certain testing in place. If the Lorikeet); Slater (Cockatiel); Parrot! Pg. 6 vet reference passes, there will Snow (Parakeet); Snowball be a home interview by an FPR (Goffin Cockatoo); Stanley Adoptable bird member. Please e-mail if you (Amazon); Teak (Quaker); Tori Baby Girl the of the quarter: have any questions! (Quaker); Wendell (Sun Conure); Blue & Gold Wiley (Goffin Cockatoo) and Macaw QUASIMOTO The following birds were Zazu (African Grey). Pg. 6 adopted in January, February and March of 2011: Apollo (Sun Conure); Baby (Quaker); Babie (Sun Conure); Baby Girl (Blue & Gold Macaw); Bear (Green Cheek Conure); Belle (Hahns Macaw); Benji (Cherry Head Page 1 Conure); Bonnie & Clyde (pair of Nanday Conures); Bubba Lucky the Rosie the Blue Rose the Bare (Blue Crown Conure); Casper Quaker & Gold Macaw Eye Cockatoo P A G E 2 Letter From The Director Dear friends and supporters, stead of waiting for us to place name to Florida Parrot Rescue. the birds, she sold them all to a There are so many updates Though FPR has always been a local pet store. Through working that I want to share and excit- registered non-profit in the at the clinic we saw several of the ing things happening for Flor- state, we did not have funds to birds after they were purchased, ida Parrot Rescue, that it’s obtain our 501(C)(3) until they were in poor health and at difficult to narrow them down 2010. We are now an officially least one blue and gold macaw Jennifer Under- to a simple letter. Originally registered charity with the IRS. died. With the knowledge of this wood James— founded in 2007, Florida Par- Florida Parrot Rescue has and the need in the community, Director and rot Rescue was named Tampa grown from a one county or- myself and another co-worker President of Flor- Bay Parrot Rescue & More ganization to one that encom- established TBPR. ida Parrot Rescue, when I was working as the passes the entire state! We practice manager of a local Over time we began accepting even have foster families in INC. veterinary practice. We got a birds and other animals and grew Alabama and Georgia. With a call from a woman in Wash- a volunteer base. Quickly, we growing group of over 75 fos- ington state whose father began to get overwhelmed by ters, volunteers, and coordina- passed away here in Florida. dogs and cats, and were not able tors, we have been able to He had over 30 birds in a one to focus on the growing number place close to 60 birds in for- bedroom condo. There was of birds coming in. We decided ever homes so far THIS YEAR! that in order to maintain a good Jeff no rescue organization in the Great work everyone, and McClain quality of care for the birds that area that she could get in con- keep it up! tact with and happened to call we would no longer take other Yours, Jennifer U. James the clinic. Unfortunately, in- animals. In 2008, we changed our Gary Wright Volunteers of the Month JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH Congratulations to Dee Dee Dee Dee Our January Co-Volunteers of French, our February Volunteer Our March Co-Volunteers of French the Month are Gary Wright of the Month! Although Dee the Month are Kelly Fischer and and Jeff McClain for designing Dee works full time and has Gladys Fonesca! These high such a beautiful, new website many birds of her own, she fos- energy gals are helping to en- for Florida Parrot Rescue! ters for FPR on a regular basis. sure Florida Parrot Rescue has Gary has been with FPR since She also goes out of her way to a terrific track record with in- Kelly it’s inception in 2007 and Jeff transport birds all over Florida formational and adoption Fischer has been with the rescue for a for the intake of birds and to events by each heading up their little over a year now. Both take birds to their forever own event in March! Kelly ran have done a fantastic job at homes. She even makes sure the event at the Bird Show in helping to further our cause of she is at almost each and every Sarasota on March 13th and on finding wonderful forever event, right there to help us the same day, Gladys headed up Gladys Fonesca homes for our birdie friends! unload, staying the whole day the Seminole Heights Sunday Check it out at and helping us pack back up! Morning Market in Tampa! www.floridaparrotrescue.com Thanks for all of your hard work Way to go girls! Flock on!! Dee Dee, we couldn’t do this without you! FEATHERS AND BEAKS Page 2 Page 3 Meet Your FPR Officers! Your officers are here to serve and support you, the volunteers and fosters, in any way they can. Because FPR is a 501C3 non-profit, all vol- unteer run organization, we have no paid employees, and that includes the officers. Jennifer Underwood James, our esteemed Director and President, is located in Tampa where she is the office manager of a local veterinary practice. Jennifer VanCuren, the Senior East Coast Vice President, is an auto-CAD designer in Longwood and lives in Winter Park. Karen Atwood, Senior West Coast Vice President and foster coordinator for southwest Florida, is a marine biologist for the state of Florida and lives in Gibsonton. Amanda Bythway-Terry, Vice Presi- dent, is an insurance agent who lives in Tampa. Brenda Dunn, retired, is the foster coordinator for Central Florida and lives in Winter Park, Christy Henderson, day care owner, is the foster coordinator for west-central Florida and is located in Port Richey. Heather Burner, a homemaker located in Navarre, is the foster coordinator for northwest Florida. Jennifer Sliwa, our database guru and petfinder.com keeper, is located in Apopka and Gary Wright, our website webmaster, is located in Lake City. Laura Bebko is the rescues accountant and resides in Tampa. FPR is growing by leaps and bounds with over 75 fosters and volunteers as of March 2011 and we still need foster coordinators for northeast Florida and southeast Florida and are looking for just the right birds, err, I mean people, for the job!! To learn more about products and services to help you train your parrot visit www.GoodbBirdInc.com Copyright 2005 © Good Bird Inc. First appeared in Good Bird Magazine Volume1 Issue1 Spring 2005 and re- Reprint Article of the Quarter printed in this newsletter with permission of Dr. Barbara Heidenreich. Strategies to Utilize when a Flighted Parrot Escapes By Barbara Heidenreich www.GoodBirdInc.com My blue fronted Amazon parrot, Tarah, does not have clipped wings. However like many birds that were clipped during the fledging process, he has never quite learned the kind of flight skills that might earn him the title of a “flyer”. I often said “He’s has his flight feathers, but he doesn’t fly.” One day I learned, the hard way, that this wasn’t exactly true. I was visiting my parents as I was moving from southern California to northern California.
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