Stress

This lovely bird was part of a wildlife educational event I attended a couple of years ago. A parrot rescue group brought some of the birds that had been surrendered to them because the owners could no longer care for them for whatever reason to help educate the public on their care.

Birds are extremely sensitive to their environments, and some will pull their own feathers out as a coping mechanism if something is wrong in their environment. In this fella's case, I believe he came from a broken home where there was a lot of arguing and it stressed him out very badly and he pulled out his feathers. The parrot rescue folks said he was much better than when he was first surrendered to them. When I saw him, he was hard at work trying to open a walnut.