Otis is a male eclectus and came in with his best friend a male quaker named Ophelia. Yes we do on occassion have gender issues here! It's funny to hear Ophelia say Good Boy Ophelia!

Otis came to us with metal poisoning from eating the little ringy thing inside of a bell. I am sure that little thing has a name I just don't know what it is! He has a clean bill of health now but still plucks some of his feathers on occassion.

Ophelia is one of the smartest quakers I have ever met. He has one of the greatest vocabularies of any bird that has come through the rescue and we have had alot of birds!

I was watching the two of them play the other day and I was hearing Peek a boo coming from the top of the cage.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Ophelia was running behind Otis and then would jump out in front of him and yell PEEK A BOO!

Not only was she saying the words she was actually playing the game!

These birds astonish me all the time! I have seen them make tools to scratch their heads and open things they should be able to open but to watch these two actually playing Peek A Boo just about blew me away!