Why aren Macaws good first time bird owners birds?
Macaws, Greys, cockatoos, or amazons are often not good first birds because they are so demanding. It’s like taking care of a 2-3 year old for about 60 years. They are also much more expensive as well as muhc louder, messier, and they need a lot more time and get bored easily. Most people who are new to parrots are not used to these demands and most can’t keep up and aren’t prepared and then the bird drives them insane and the bird ends up in a rescue. These larger aprrots are like children, they need many hours of your time and need lots of activities to keep them from getting bored because a bored parrot will screech, feather pluck, and some even becoming biters. If you want any of these species you ahve to be prepared to spend thousands of dollars, to spend at least 6 hours a day with them, and be prepared to have your ears screamed off. Are you willing to clean cages, deal with screaming, spend thousands of dollars, handle get bitten (even nice birds bite, you will get bit), for as