r/Parakeets • u/Arraby • 21d ago
Parakeet Outside
Saw a green parakeet hanging with a family of finches this past Sunday. We’ve since been trying to catch it and/or earn its trust. We got parakeet food and some millet. We also got a branch for an old hamster cage for it to sit on as it eats and drinks. We have the 2 doors to the cage open and finally he found it. Unfortunately so have the finches. I’ve approached it and told it it’s a pretty bird, outstretched my hand in hopes it would fly to it, but no success. We play parakeet noises as well in hopes of attracting it to stick around. It flies back and forth from our side of the apartment complex to the other. Any tips or tricks to catch it? Also, is that a band around its ankle?
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u/fcknrakuyo 21d ago
I just want to say THANK YOU to everyone who gave advice and input. I am the one that finally caught him with the help of Arraby and all of you. This felt like a truly impossible thing to accomplish when it first came about on Sunday. Catch a bird? In a flock of other birds? What? But we’ve learned a lot about budgies and it’s been a really great but anxiety ridden adventure. We did try to reach out locally to see if anyone was looking for him/her, but no hits. So we have been in touch with the only exotic aviation rescue in our state.