About Save the cockatoos
Save the Cockatoos was founded by Logan Jimenez to create a network of experts, zookeepers, rescue workers, and cockatoo fans to improve the lives of cockatoos in human care and cockatoos in the wild.
Logan's father's best friends ran a commercial aviary when he was child. He would go over and help clean the dishes and get the food prepared for the flock of 100 or so parrots. He fell in love with birds at a young age. He would take pictures of the birds into his classes and teach the kids about the different types of parrots.
Kids grow up and their interests change. Logan was no different. After traveling as a circus performer he settled in Wisconsin and opened a museum, Mr. Marvel's Wondertorium. At the museum he started to do outreach programs at schools and libraries about conservation.
One day he stumbled upon a white cockatoo named Babs online. Babs had outlived his original family, and had been passed from home to home. His most recent home had the best intentions but after Babs had attacked a couple members of the family they decided they were done.
Something about Babs stood out to him. On January 15, 2016 he went to pick Babs up. Logan looked at Babs' leg band, which is like an ID for a captive bred bird. Babs was hatched at the aviary that the Logan's family helped with when Logan was a kid. It was fate.
Logan's father's best friends ran a commercial aviary when he was child. He would go over and help clean the dishes and get the food prepared for the flock of 100 or so parrots. He fell in love with birds at a young age. He would take pictures of the birds into his classes and teach the kids about the different types of parrots.
Kids grow up and their interests change. Logan was no different. After traveling as a circus performer he settled in Wisconsin and opened a museum, Mr. Marvel's Wondertorium. At the museum he started to do outreach programs at schools and libraries about conservation.
One day he stumbled upon a white cockatoo named Babs online. Babs had outlived his original family, and had been passed from home to home. His most recent home had the best intentions but after Babs had attacked a couple members of the family they decided they were done.
Something about Babs stood out to him. On January 15, 2016 he went to pick Babs up. Logan looked at Babs' leg band, which is like an ID for a captive bred bird. Babs was hatched at the aviary that the Logan's family helped with when Logan was a kid. It was fate.
Logan would bring Babs to the museum to hang out during the day. On an almost weekly basis a museum patron would say "Oh we have a cockatoo just like him. Will you please take him?" It become very apparent that there was . major problem. There were thousands of cockatoos that were being kicked out of one house and into another on an all to regular basis. Logan decided that they only way to stop this was through education. In 2018 he created The Cockatoo Encounter, an educational program about the plight of cockatoos in the wild and in human care. Today, The Cockatoo Encounter is the outreach program for Save the Cockatoos
