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 WoolhamA 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.
Who's a clever boy: Jack the pet Bluefronted Amazon parrot survived sub-degree temperatures before his miraculous returnAfter 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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