Kali the double yellow-headed amazon parrot escaped from Andy and Gail Tait’s home in Donaghcloney on Wednesday night time, however the couple managed to retrieve their pet chook because of the assistance of fellow residents – and a bag of crisps.
The unique animal escaped from their home after Andy went to offer her some water in her cage for the night time.
He forgot that he had left the again door open, and she or he ‘scooted’ proper previous his arm.
From then, Gail mentioned the neighborhood had been “fantastic” in making an attempt to recuperate the well-known chook, who’s now safely again home.
“See as soon as we received her, it was like one thing simply drained from my physique,” Andy defined, including that Kali too appeared exhausted after her wild out of doors journey.
He famous that they might each sleep nicely now.
Kali was noticed on the roof of the native major faculty on Friday morning, however she scarpered once more when the bell went for break and all of the pupils got here out.
However, Andy and Gail’s daughter mentioned that she appeared on the faculty once more in the course of the night.
Andy continued: “We went to drive up after work and I knew she’d be hungry, so I stopped to get a pack of beef-flavoured McCoy crisps, because I would give Kali a wee tiny bit of them as a small treat from time to time, and I know they’re her favourite; you don’t want to be giving them to birds too often.
“But, we saw her in this tree and I started shaking the open packet of crisps at the bottom of it. She was looking down at me, and got spooked and flew away, but eventually we found her again at the back of some houses on the other side of the village.”
Kali fluttered over to a low storage then, and once more Andy tried to lure her in with the crunchy items.
A neighborhood crowd had gathered, and slowly, Kali approached her proprietor. As quickly as she put her beak within the crisp bag, he grabbed her firmly and put a blanket over his feathery buddy, with an uproar of cheers from all of the useful onlookers.
“I actually didn’t assume I’d ever see her once more,” Andy continued. “And the residents of Donaghcloney have been awesome.
“There is one man, Phil Ogle, who is originally from the village but now lives in Hillsborough. I never knew him personally, before but he has been out helping us look for her ever since she got out and he found out on Facebook. He’s a friend for life now.
DUP councillor for the area, Mark Baxter, said that Kali has become famous and that she “has really captured the imagination of the entire village”.
“She’s my husband’s baby,” Gail added.
“We are totally humbled by the whole village. We went out on Thursday night to look for her and the more we looked, the more people joined us to help.
“They were out with nets, standing out on their roofs. They unlocked their garage and shed doors and said we could come and go freely to look for her; all people we don’t know, we just couldn’t believe it.”
“She’s about seven months old and we’ve had her since she was three months old.
“She’s just starting to learn to talk, with the broadest Belfast accent you’ve ever heard.
“She’s hilarious, she wolf whistles and says, ‘whatcha doing?’ or she shouts ‘Peekaboo’. She’ll give someone a heart attack!
“We just want to add a massive thank you to Donaghcloney residents and everyone who is taking the time to help catch or spot her.”
The Taits even have a brand new nickname for Kali’s favorite crisp model too – ‘McCaw’s’.
Kali was noticed on Friday, May 3, atop Donaghcloney Primary School
