We are a small Ajax-based crew of bird people who think a parrot deserves the same care standard as any family pet. Here is how we got here and what keeps us at it.
It started with favours. A couple of us already kept birds, and word gets around an Ajax neighbourhood fast — soon people heading to the airport or down to the lake for a long weekend were dropping their cockatiels and conures with us. We never minded. Honestly, we looked forward to it more than we looked forward to most of our actual jobs.
By early 2025 the favours had outgrown the spare room, so we made it a real thing. Ajax Birding Co. came out of a simple frustration: a town this size, full of bird owners, and nowhere that treated birds as the main event instead of an awkward add-on next to the dog kennels. We decided to be that place.
These days we look after birds for families right across Ajax and the wider Durham Region — Pickering Beach to Audley to the newer pockets up near Taunton. The standard has not moved since the favour days: handle every bird like it is our own, keep owners genuinely in the loop, and keep reading and learning because avian care never stands still.
One test runs every call we make: does it serve the bird? It is why we cap how many guests we take at once and why the room is set up the way it is, even when that means turning bookings away during a busy long weekend.
You should never have to wonder. We send more updates than most owners expect — the good moments and the off days alike — because handing over a pet is an act of trust, and trust only holds up when nothing is hidden.
What was solid avian advice a decade ago is often outdated now. We keep up with current nutrition research, behaviour studies, and what local avian vets are actually recommending, so the care your bird gets reflects where the science is today.
Ajax is home, not just a service area. We lend a hand to avian rescues, turn up at Durham-area adoption days, and happily talk a worried first-time owner through a problem whether or not they ever book with us.
There is no template here, because no two birds are the same. Before a first stay we run a proper intake call and dig into the details — what your bird eats, how it behaves, what it loves, what sets it off, and any medical history we need to know. All of that becomes a written care plan that steers everything we do.
Once your bird is with us, we hold its normal routine as closely as we can and build enrichment on top so the days stay interesting rather than just supervised. A few things that set the approach apart:
