Aloha Hawaiian Parrot Association plans potluck, toy sale and DIY challenge
Blaisdell Park got a potluck, bird-friendly toy sales and a DIY challenge, with AHPA putting enrichment and hands-on participation first.
At Blaisdell Park, the Aloha Hawaiian Parrot Association turned its May calendar into a practical day for parrot people: a membership meeting at noon on May 17, a potluck where guests could bring a dish to share, birds welcome, and reasonably priced parrot toys on sale.
The club’s push went beyond a social lunch. AHPA said it was founded in 1992, called itself a 100% volunteer organization, and said it received a 2013 Certificate of Excellence from the City & County of Honolulu for its commitment to animal welfare in Hawaii. It also offers help with rehome requests and provides adoption, surrender and foster forms for people who can no longer care for a bird.
That local role has been part of the association’s identity for years. A 2013 profile described AHPA as a club with about 140 members and said its monthly Sunday meetings were held at Blaisdell Park in Waimalu. The same profile said the group helps find lost parrots, foster and re-home them, educate new owners and take part in the annual pet expo. One meeting drew about 25 humans and roughly 35 parrots, representing 17 different parrot breeds and subspecies.
The club’s May 20 DIY toy skills challenge fit the same pattern. It turned toy-making into a public, low-cost enrichment project instead of a specialist exercise, and that matters in parrot care. Avian veterinarians have highlighted foraging enrichment that pushes grey parrots to search, explore, select, extract and manipulate food. A veterinary enrichment guide says DIY toys can help cut down feather plucking, boredom and aggression while encouraging chewing, shredding, foraging and problem-solving.
That emphasis tracks with how parrots live in the wild and at home. Wild parrots spend 60% to 80% of their waking hours foraging, and many experts recommend keeping four to six toys in a cage and rotating them every one to two weeks. AHPA’s toy table and DIY challenge made that advice concrete, while the potluck and bird-friendly meeting kept the club’s social side alive. For a group that has been meeting in Honolulu for decades, that combination of food, birds and enrichment was the point.
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