Meet Sophie

Meet Sophie, a blue-and-gold macaw. Sophie may get a name change after we receive her DNA test results, as we suspect she might be a male!

Sophie is at least 22 years old, but she may be older. We suspect she may be wild-caught.

Here is a picture of Sophie on the day she was surrendered to us.Her bottom beak is quite overgrown -- you can see that she is unable to close her beak because of this. Additionally, her nails are very long. It was very painful for this volunteer to have her on his hand!

A close-up of her beak:
We groomed her, and here she is with a proper-sized bottom beak:
Notice she's so used to keeping her beak open (because she couldn't close it) that even when she can, she doesn't. We suspect it won't take her long to acclimate to her new beak!

Sophie is not yet up for adoption, as we want to get her healthier, but she will be soon.