Hello! My name is Nick

Nick is not especially friendly - he will not step up and if you come too close to him he will lunge. He is stick trained however so you can move him from location to location. If he accidentally falls to the floor he will allow you to pick him up to go back on his play stand. We would characterize Nick as a bit of a perch potato. He is content to sit on top of his cage or on a play stand for most of the day. His original owners were able to walk around outside with Nick on their shoulders but that did not work for the second owners.

Nick is at the louder end of the spectrum for amazons which are already among the louder parrots. He is quiet at night with the lights off but starts calling as soon as lights are on in the morning and does so fairly persistently throughout the day. He would definitely not be appropriate for an apartment as his voice carries.

Nick is easily bullied by other parrots having grown up with only humans. He does not know how to protect himself from cats, dogs or other, even small, parrots which might fly onto his cage.

He says "Good Morning" "cookie" and "are you OK?" - the noise he makes most often is a repetitive "hop, hop, hop, hop" call which is, frankly, rather irritating. As Nick doesn't do anything other than sit it is important that his adopter be willing to keep him in a fairly high traffic area so that he is able to interact.