Feb. 11 (UPI) —<\/span> Power company workers in Vermont came to the rescue of a panicked parrot that flew 60 feet up a tree and was too afraid of flying to come back down.<\/p>\n Massachusetts resident Thea Everest said she brought her macaw, Kaiba, along to visit her father in Battleboro, but before they went inside the house the parrot became spooked.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n “Normally, I’ll put him down right before we go inside so he can use the bathroom,” Everest told WCAX-TV. “And a bird flew by like right next to him and he got spooked.”<\/p>\n Kaiba ended up flying to a tree branch about 60 feet off the ground, where he remained.<\/p>\n Everest said Kaiba’s previous owners had kept his wings clipped, so he has only recently been learning how to fly.<\/p>\n “Being in that tree, I think he was stuck and scared,” Everest said.<\/p>\n Everest sought help on a local bird spotting group on Facebook, and someone suggested she contact Green Mountain Power to get assistance from lineworkers with a bucket truck.<\/p>\n “I was like, ‘Hey, I know this is a weird call,’ and they’re like, ‘It’s OK, we like the weird ones,'” Everest said. “I was like, ‘Amazing, I’m excited.’ I was freaking out. I’d been nervous the whole day.”\n<\/p>\n Lineworkers Chris Gouger and Nick Bills were dispatched to the scene with a bucket truck to rescue Kaiba. The workers said the bucket truck took them just barely high enough to reach the bird.<\/p>\n The workers said it was a highly unusual call.<\/p>\n “This was the first that was actually a bird up in a tree,” Bills said.<\/p>\n Everest thanked the power company in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n “Huge shout out to Green Mountain Power company for rescuing my macaw, Kaiba, today in the freezing Brattleboro Vermont! You have amazing workers and the best rescuers I could’ve asked for,” she wrote.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thea Everest contacted Green Mountain Power for help when her pet macaw ended up stranded 60 feet off the ground in a Battleboro, Vt., tree. Photo by\u00a0kuszapro\/Pixabay.com Feb. 11 (UPI) — Power company workers in Vermont came to the rescue of a panicked parrot that flew 60 feet up a tree and was too afraid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nThea Everest contacted Green Mountain Power for help when her pet macaw ended up stranded 60 feet off the ground in a Battleboro, Vt., tree. Photo by\u00a0kuszapro\/Pixabay.com<\/div>\n\n