Said a shrill voice from behind him, seemingly from out of nowhere, “Peekaboo.”
Reed Schweizer looked around and heard it again, “Peekaboo.”
Soon enough, the Floridian spotted the bright-green parrot perched near his table, where he had been enjoying a cocktail on the patio.
Schweizer would later call it an “Easter miracle” that the 5-year-old Solomon Island eclectus parrot approached him for help that day, April 9, and ended up reunited with his worried owner.
He would not learn the parrot’s name—Tiki—until after finding the bird’s owner, Brent Chadwell from Cape Coral, through searching on social media.
Days earlier, on April 6, that owner had received a distressed call from his wife while he was at the car dealership where he works. Tiki was gone!…