“We thought he might never regrow the skin, but now he has all his feathers too.” For the first few weeks he was there, Iago slept in the bedroom and Gore put cream on his legs. “The vet wasn’t even sure he’d survive,” Gore said. He arrived in Gore and McGee’s home with legs raw and bloody from mutilation. One of the first birds you meet when entering BirdLove is Iago a four- year- old blue and gold macaw. “He probably always will be.” Like many of the rescue birds that have found their way to BirdLove, Roscoe had self mutilated his feathers, a common symptom of a bird that has been abused or under stress. “He’s been plucked since we got him,” Gore said. He loves to sing the first lines of “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” capped off with a train whistle. One of their most vocal residents is a ten year old African Grey named Roscoe that was raised in a pool hall and boasts a wide vocabulary and song catalog. Their flock includes an assortment of cockatiels, parakeets, conures, macaws, amazons, and more. Gore and her partner Rick McGee founded the BirdLove Avian Sanctuary in 1996 to provide a loving home for parrots of all sizes whose owners could no longer care for them.
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It’s easy to find the humor in a home full of 34 feathered comedians.
“We laugh every single day,” Jo Gore said.
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