For the past few days, Waldronville couple Cathrine and Colin Perriman have been looking for the home of a dazed eastern rosella parrot they had nursed back to health after a flight gone wrong.
Mrs Perriman was home alone when she heard a loud "thwack" at the front of her house.
After rummaging through some bushes, she found a colourful eastern rosella parrot that had flown into her front window.
The bird was knocked out cold for an hour.
Luckily Mrs Perriman and her husband were keen bird-owners.
Mr Perriman said it took the bird "the best part of an hour" to come right, and while they nursed him back to health, he had been nicknamed "Crash".
The couple had put a "lost and found" advertisement in the Otago Daily Times in case Crash had some owners.
So far they had received five calls, but all were missing other breeds of colourful parrots.
"To be honest, I think [Crash] is a wild one, he’s far too skittery."
The Perrimans already had a blue princess parrot named Fred, so they put Crash into Fred’s old cage.
"I have them both packed side by side, and all Fred does now is show off."
Mr Perriman was sceptical about letting Crash fly free.
"They pair up, and they live in flocks — I don't know if he would do well on his own or not."
He said the Crash’s next stop would be the SPCA.
Eastern rosellas are native to Australia and were introduced to Dunedin in the early 1910s when a ship carrying the birds was denied entry because of the parrots.
The birds were released by the Otago Heads before the ship sailed back to Australia.
