-=> Quoting Teresa Vanderhill to Pete Hopping <=-
 PH> Dunno about the ball park. A local pet shop with an excellent reputation
 PH> regarding parrots prices Hyacinths at $10,000. All other parrots that 
they
 PH> sell are within the normally accepted retail price ranges. I'm assuming
 PH> the price on the Hyacinths is also within accepted retail price range.
 PH> They don't normally keep hyacinths in the store due to the space needed
 PH> for the cage though...
 TV> From the posts that I've been reading, it sounds like these birds
 TV> don't need a cage, they need their own house altogether....:)  Seems
 TV> like it would be  cheaper than trying to find a cage large enough.  I
 TV> didn't think these birds  got that large.  Guess I'd better go back to
 TV> the zoo and look at them again,  hadn't I?
They're pretty big. They have a big wingspan and their tailfeathers are
very long. You almost do have to have a seperate house for them, taking
into account at least some room for them to wiggle their wings a bit.
 
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