How I Found My New Family

Ronlee · Post by **Ronlee** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:51 am

Hi My Name is Ron I'm from Sunny South Africa.
I happen to have acquired an IRN by chance about a year ago, let me explain.
I noticed and heard this green bird in the trees around my house and in my neighbourhood, this carried on for about 2 months, I would drive around in my area and sometimes I would see or hear this green bird.
One morning I woke up early and heard the same distinctive sound from this bird, it was in a tree on my property. I went into the house and put some bread onto a plate and put the plate down on the lawn and backed away, to my surprise the bird flew down and started eating from the plate, I moved in a little closer and it flew back into the tree. I decided to sit down on the lawn next to the plate, after 10 minuts it landed about 5 metres from me, I sat still and waited, it moved in very slowly and eventually was eating from the plate next to me. I slowly moved my arm, coiling it back for a strike to grab this bird. I realised that it might be a painful experience but was willing to take to chance. Whack, got it, screeching and squawking and softly biting, took it inside and cut its wings. This bird was very scared. I found this site and quickly identified it as a female IRN. We got a cage for it and that was it we now had a wild IRN in a cage. 3 weeks later this bird stated talking and saying words in Afrikaans. We still had not named her. My wife tried to open the cage to see what would happen, the bird came out and climbed to the top of the cage, to cut a long story short, a year later our female ring neck got new feathers and turned into a male by getting a black ring. We name him Boetie because that’s one of the many things he says. We now have an extra member of the family that climbs around the house doing his own thing, walking on my head in bed to wake me in the morning. Eating out of my mouth, saying long sentences and being so tame that his not scared of anything, as I’m typing this he is sitting on the edge of my keyboard sleeping. He walks around on my desk as if he owns this place. He lets me know every day by flapping his wings in a certain way that he wants to bath, I then get a large bowl of luke warm water that he goes crazy in. I have learnt so much from this site and from Boetie what a great personality a bird can have not to mention how intelligent these IRN's are. He does demand lots of attention and constant interaction. I will try to post some video clips of Boetie onto this site, if I’m allowed, you will be amazed.
Regards Ron and Boetie

U.S Marine · Post by **U.S Marine** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:28 am

You are allowed to post pictures or videos, You story
was really fun to read.

pinkdevil · Post by **pinkdevil** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:42 am

Hi Ronlee.

I had a giggle when you said your girl turned into a boy after his moult.

Post by **kyria** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:32 am

welcome to the family

Ronlee · Post by **Ronlee** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:59 am

Thanks guys

Still trying to get to grips with this site, cannot or dont know how to do things
will post photos asap

Ron

U.S Marine · Post by **U.S Marine** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:19 pm

This is posted in two diff sections...lols

To upload photos use photo bucket, and copy one of the codes, then paste it in here after you uploaded your photo to photo bucket. The avatar way is a bit diff, i will tell you how to do so in the other thread you made of the same..