A flyaway parrot has been reunited with his owners after surviving the bitter winter by
apparently sheltering in a chicken coop.
Jack the blue-fronted Amazon began to cluck when he was found – thought to be a sign
that he had set up home in a heated hen house as he searched for his owners.
The 12-year-old bird vanished for 66 days after he flew out of an open door at Jerry
and Irene Williams's home in Prenton, Wirral, on November 21.
Home sweet home: Jack the pet parrot sits comfortably at home in Prenton, Wirral, with
astonished owners Jerry and Irene Williams and Andy Woolham, from Chester Zoo
Home sweet home: Jack the pet parrot sits comfortably at home in Prenton, Wirral, with
astonished owners Jerry and Irene Williams and zoo keeper Andy Woolham
Who's a clever boy: Jack the pet Bluefronted Amazon parrot survived sub-degree
temperatures before his miraculous return
Who's a clever boy: Jack the pet Bluefronted Amazon parrot survived sub-degree
temperatures before his miraculous return
After making it through the coldest December for a century, he was then found perched
on a fence outside a tropical aviary at Chester Zoo, some 15 miles away, towards the
end of January.
Andy Woolham, the zoo's head parrot keeper, said: ‘I could tell he was ravenously
hungry so I enticed him down with a grape.
'No parrot can resist a black grape.'
He said Jack would have been killed by the cold had he not apparently found shelter and
food in a poultry shed.
Mr Woolham fed him up and passed him to his mother to care for while they searched for
his owner.
Two weeks later a visitor to Mrs Woolham's home recognised Jack from a ‘missing
parrot' poster she had seen at a local vet's surgery.
Mr Williams, 58, said he was speechless when the zoo called to say Jack had been found.
‘Ever since the day I watched helplessly as he flew off over the trees at the end of
the garden, I thought I'd never see him again,' he said.
‘It's wonderful to have him back.'
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