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Notes on visiting the Vogelburg under the new statutory Corona guidelines

more parrots are kept in homes than live in nature?
most parrots must change their masters more than five times?
a parrot usually outlives its owner?
parrots have feelings of love, hatred and jealousy and are able to express them?
a parrot needs a natural partner?
many parrot owners only develop an allergy to a parrot only after several years?
lots of parrots go mad because they are kept alone?
two parrots have to die for one who stays alive and is imported?
a parrot needs at least eight hours of affection each day?
parrots are the most endangered species among all birds?
a neighbour next flat must give his consent to the keeping of parrots?
in spring nearly all parrots screech for a partner that never turns up?
severe problems of keeping parrots at home do not obviously arise before three or four years (after sexual maturity)?
even in winter parrots prefer living outside in an aviary to being in a living-room?
90 % of all parrots kept in homes have to suffer from aspergillosis (a lung desease) due to the dry air in living rooms?
a plucked parrot — if this happens at all — needs two years until it has all its feathers again?
parrots choose their partners themselves and will then never be unfaithful?
only ten out of hundred parrots are able (or will learn) to speak?
Most parrots spend all their lifetime in a cage the size of only half a square metre? This is comparable to man being forced to spend 30-40 years of his life in a room the size of a toilet!
most parrots do not get adequate nourishment?
a parrots costs betwenn 150 and 50.000 Euros and is often kept as a status symboll?

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