A pet parrio sailed through the living skies of Saskatchewan in a daring escape that took him 500 kilometers from home.
Bleu Ringneck’s Indian adventure took her from her home in the town of Torquay, which is 165 kilometers southeast of Regina, to Prince Albert in the northern center of Saskatchewan.
Bleu flew the chicken coop, or rather, the cage, from the house of Rhys Maclean’s parents on May 3, when he ran to an open door while Maclean’s stepfather entered the house from the garage. Maclean said that his mother, 75 and his stepfather had never had problems keeping Bleu in the house, so his cage door often stayed open.
“She flew through the open door, made a couple of laps of victory in the garage and then flew the [other] Puerta and we thought he had gone forever, “Maclean told Peter Mills, presenter of CBC Radio’s 306.
Maclean said everyone felt horrible about Bleu’s escape, and the fact that he was in the air made him find it seems impossible.
“My stepfather felt terrible … It was just an honest accident. [Bleu’s] I never did that before or that I have been close to that. “
Maclean said that his mother and stepfather moved to Torquay from Calgary in 2024, and believed that the new environment led to a change in Bleu’s behavior.
“We all had that sinking feeling that we were never going to find this bird,” he said.
3068:57The Lost Pet parrot found more than 500 kilometers from home in Sask.
Rhys Maclean joins 306 to talk about how his family’s pet, blue, flew more than 500 kilometers north from Torquay to Prince Albert, and was found and returned with security at home.
It would be ‘zero optimism’ bleu
Maclean said he didn’t know how to try to find Bleu, but wrote a Facebook post in the lost community and found the page for the nearby city of Estevan. He said he had a “zero optimism” this would lead to discover the whereabouts of the rebel parrot.
“To be honest with you, I wrote the publication as something like a closing thing because I didn’t know how to be there for my mother or stepfather. And I knew how bad they felt,” he said, adding that he tied the publication with ingenuity and humor to “lighten the mood.”
Maclean said there were a lot of people who sent Facebook messages trying to help with the search for the fugitive parrot.
“People really were in the ball with that. I had people who sent me a message at 2:30 in the morning, recording sounds, bird sounds, in their backyard in Estevan, I know: ‘This sounds like a strange type of exotic bird,'” he said.
“So people really joined and really were attentive.”
While the community sent many tips, Maclean said none of them seemed promising. Although Bleu is a domestic bird, it is very difficult to catch, even in a closed space. If someone found the bird, Maclean said he thought that when he or his father could get there, she would have gone.
Maclean said in general, he felt desperate.
But when she received a message that a woman in Prince Albert had alerted the rescue of Saskatoon parrots, she had captured a blue parrot one month after Bleu had escaped, she was “quite shocking.”
Maclean said his stepfather brought the Bleu Kiwi cage partner to meet the captured parrot, which was in fact identified as Bleu.
Impossible mission: complete.
“He came home as if he had just made a military tour: thin, bleached by the sun, a little peel,” Maclean said. “But in a matter of weeks, he returned to his usual me, eating as if every meal was the last and did kiwi again.”
