Here are some interesting Bird owner statistics!

[Buteo]

Originally Posted by Vega

Hmmm....I wonder how many parrot rescues were devleoped between 2000-2004 to take in the 1/2 million birds that are no longer kept as pets....

That was my first thought too...
I realize more than a few of them might have died during that time, but
it's still incredibly sad....

In the span of just 4 short years, 500,000 birds needed new forever homes.

[kateBird]

the drop in bird owners probably was due to the bird flu scare. i read a news article about UK's bird rescues having a terrible time keeping up with the increase in birds that were being given up by their owners because of the bird flu.

[Monica]

Bird flu, newcastles disease, among others..... especially was bad in California a couple years back... birds being killed for no reason, had no say so over their life, etc...

[ROYJOY]

her i go with chickens again..... whole generations of chickens are put to the torch in asia, it seems, every time some one gets a fever!

[jimpierce7]

that makes since, 2.6 birds............
Zoey =1
Sophie =1
Benji =.6

[Omar]

Some more stats.

2005 Pet Indiustry Spending was 36.3 Billion Dollars more than twice the amount spent in 1994 with an expected growth to 38.4 Billion in 2006.

Food costs took the bulk with over 15.2 billion, verterniary costs a close second with 9.4 billion.

[Kevin]

WOW!! No wonder kibbles n bits , alpo, purina run so many ads on TV.... Plenty of money to pay for them