I feel the average age of a pet parrot has reduced from approximately 40 to 50 years in a normal pet situation, to realistically in the region of around 15 to 20 years in today’s world. So a parrot taken on as a pet 50 years ago, would probably in normal circumstances be alive today but one taken on today would not live for much more than half that time?

So what’s changed?

The answer to that one is easy, ‘practically everything’.

First of all you have to look at the basics that most parrots need to thrive in a pet situation, and then look at what people gave them historically, and then simply compare it with today’s lifestyle.