Fly away - not

[Guest Terrapin9614]

I don`t own any kind of parrot, yet, though I`d love an African Grey but I`ve been doing my homework and there is one question I haven`t been able to get an answer to.

I have seen macaws at a theme park that flew round the park and returned to the stage. Also, this year at Lanzarote there were 2 greys that remained perched on the seawall every night outside the restaurant we frequented. What I`d like to know is, why didn`t they didn`t fly away?

The macaws may have been carefully trained (very carefully trained I guess!) and the greys may have had their wings clipped, but if I ever do get a parrot, I`d like to give it the freedom I have seen others get.

Has anyone any advice on this or can you direct me anywhere?

[Cowboy_X]

8b ven if a bird flys away you can track her/he down -

[Chilly4]

They do have those RFID tags, I wonder what kind of a range you can get out of those?

[Tom__Green]

Kind of a hard thing to have batteries inside an animal.

The microchips used for ID, don`t have any power in them, thus they can`t send a signal. The magic wand used to ID an animal sends out a radio signal, which is picked up by the ID chip, converted to power, so that it can send out the return signal.

RFID is a similar process, designed for goods, and used like a bar code. Again, it requires a radio signal to power it.

[Guest Deckerkain]

so every so often to replace the worn out emitter batteries. Perhaps technology will be able to come up with something more permanent at some point in the future....

I`d like to put one on my kids so I can `follow` their whereabouts too!