When our daughter Jeanelle went to work at Petsmart many years ago at the age of 16 she decided she needed a Conure.

One day she came home with this small Nanday Conure and little did we know how noisy this bird would become.

Years later she went off to college and Kiwi had to stay home with us. Over the years he had a companion Grey Bird our first cockatiel who was actually older than Kiwi he died after a few years then Lemon our second cockatiel.

Lemon and Kiwi quickly bonded as neighbor birds their cages were next to each other and looked out the front of the house towards the driveway.

All of a sudden Wednesday night I found Kiwi dead in the bottom of his cage we figured it up and he was 21 years old which is a long time for any animal. I am sure he died of old age their life expectancy is 20 – 25 years.

Since Lemon is now about 10 years old I am not starting any new bird additions youtube will have to keep him company.

The house is so quiet no squaking at the Amazon, UPS or Fed Ex trucks no advance notice of the garbage truck or mail truck or for someone approaching our yard. He was always the guard bird the first one to notice something and this would alarm the dogs and suddenly Lemon would start in and we sounded like a Zoo.

I will miss Kiwi who I have bonded with for the last 21 years even though he started out as our daughters bird.

Pet birds can bring so much joy to your life alot more than most people realize.