Oscar, our Green-winged Macaw, can be seen at Phillo Flowers most Saturdays
Oscar is a Green-winged Macaw that belongs to our events manager Steve. He is just over three years old and was bred in the UK. The Green-winged Macaws are from the Ara Genus and are native to northern and central South America. The largest Macaws of this Genus, they are about a metre in length and have a six foot wing span. Although not an endangered species, the Green-winged Macaws are in decline in the wild due to habitat loss and illegal capture for the bird trade.
Oscar can be seen in our Notting Hill flower shop most Saturdays and has a vocabulary of about 20 words and phrases that he has learnt over the years. Oscar is fully flighted i.e., his wings have never been clipped and he has on the odd occasion decided to fly out of the shop and rather spend an hour or so in a tree on Chepstow Road to the amusement of passers-by. Oscar is being trained by Steve to free fly and he will soon be seen doing circuits in Hyde Park.
We hope you enjoy these pictures of Oscar from a recent photo shoot at the shop – what a charmer!
Meet Oscar in our Notting Hill flower shop, where he holds court most Saturdays
Phillo Flowers support The World Parrot Trust, an organisation based in the UK that is involved in parrot conservation in wild and captive parrots all over the world www.parrots.org
Oscar, posing for our recent photo shoot at the shop – what a charmer!
