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Ruffled Feathers Your support helps us continue this vital work. 💕✨ The rescue and rehabilitation of the harder to adopt parrots in need.

🦜 Ruffled Feathers Parrot Sanctuary Inc. 🏡💚
Providing a safe haven for parrots & wildlife in need. 🌿🐦 Dedicated to expert care, rehabilitation & second chances. We are a 501c3 non profit organization formed in 2015 dedicated to education about parrots, birds, and Kentucky’s local wildlife. Also the rescue, transport, and rehabilitation of injured or orphaned wildlife from around Jefferson county, Kentucky. Working with other organizations to get as many animals help as we can. Thank you for visiting our page. We wanted to create a positive environment for sharing educational as well as fun animal related post. We don’t allow drama and we do our best to keep this a safe environment for all parrot, bird, and animal lovers to enjoy. We appreciated everyone here that participates and shares our content. The more eyes we can reach hopefully the more animals can also be saved. It takes a team and we are lucky enough to work with some of the best around who all want the same thing. To see Kentucky’s animals get the help they need. We try our best to keep the content fresh and entertaining. If you appreciate what we do please don’t hesitate to click on the donate button to help us out or to set up a monthly donation. Our monthly donators really make it possible to budget what we can afford to do from month to month. Facebook does not charge any fees when you donate though them and they also help by donating to our birds by the number of people who see the reels we share. So please share those we really appreciate it. We also have PayPal and snail mail available for donations. We also accept local donations of cages, animal related items, and general stuff which if we can’t use will sell to raise money for the rescue. Thank you everyone for visiting our page and we look forward to sharing many exciting adventures, educating each other, and enjoying our critter lives together. Be kind and this will be a page we can all enjoy. - Brad

Quick quiz. Which plumage are you today? 🤔🤎 Summer brown: blending in, keeping busy, hoping nobody notices you.🤍 Winter ...
11/03/2026

Quick quiz. Which plumage are you today? 🤔

🤎 Summer brown: blending in, keeping busy, hoping nobody notices you.
🤍 Winter white: fluffed up, well insulated, not leaving the house.
🐦 Patchy in-between: half ready for the day, half not. Hair not done.

The ptarmigan goes through all three every single year and never once complains about it. I have parrots who scream if their breakfast is two minutes late.

Answer in the comments. I'm patchy in-between most days. Link to the full post in the comments too.

11/03/2026

Stormy here. 🐾 Today I learned a ptarmigan is basically a chicken with snowshoes and a better attitude about winter. Don't tell the chickens I said that.

The full ptarmigan story is linked in the comments.

Meet the ptarmigan: basically a chicken that moved to the Arctic and decided to stay. 🐔❄️It's a grouse, so it's cousins ...
11/02/2026

Meet the ptarmigan: basically a chicken that moved to the Arctic and decided to stay. 🐔❄️

It's a grouse, so it's cousins with the chickens and turkeys you already know. About the size of a small chicken, round, soft, and built like a feathered loaf of bread.

Here's the history lesson. When the last ice age ended and the glaciers pulled back north, the ptarmigan followed them. A few got stranded on mountaintops as the land warmed up, which is why you can still find them in the Alps, the Pyrenees, Scotland and the mountains of Japan. Little islands of ice age birds, hanging on where it's still cold enough.

Swipe through. Link to the full post is in the comments.

11/01/2026

Stormy here. 👀 I'm taking over the evenings for the next two weeks, and I'm starting with a bird that lives in the Arctic all year and sleeps inside a snowbank. I need a minute.

The full ptarmigan story is linked in the comments.

Birds of Eurasia: The Ptarmigan, the Arctic Bird With a Closet Full of DisguisesDiscover the Arctic's master of disguise...
11/01/2026

Birds of Eurasia: The Ptarmigan, the Arctic Bird With a Closet Full of Disguises

Discover the Arctic's master of disguise: the Rock Ptarmigan, a grouse that changes outfits seasonally and thrives in Earth's harshest conditions....

Meet the Rock Ptarmigan, nature's ultimate master of disguise! ❄️🐦 From changing its feather colors with the seasons to wearing built-in snowshoes and sleeping inside snowbanks, this clever Arctic bird has survival down to an art. Discover its amazing adaptations, funny habits, and surprising...

Same bird. Different outfits. Guess the season. ❄️🍂Swipe through and put your guesses for slides 1, 2 and 3 in the comme...
11/01/2026

Same bird. Different outfits. Guess the season. ❄️🍂

Swipe through and put your guesses for slides 1, 2 and 3 in the comments. Slide 4 is the cheat sheet.

The ptarmigan changes its feathers a few times a year to match the ground it's standing on. I have parrots here who throw a fit over a new food bowl. This bird redoes its entire look and never complains once.

Answers in the comments. No peeking.

11/01/2026

Did they make it?

The night: warm, dark, quiet. Ten babies the size of a thumb in one box in the ICU unit, with nothing to eat. We did not sleep much.

The morning: still ten. Every one of them woke up. Every one of them went into a carrier.

The drive: on to Broadbent Wildlife Sanctuary, who took all ten to be raised the way a licensed rehabber raises them. Properly. And then released.

Ten. They made it. 🖤

A dog, a yard, a mother gone in seconds. And ten babies alive because one person did not walk away.

That's the thing in the yard. Thank you for watching for fifteen days. Save the checklist, check the pouch, and give the thing in your yard some space.

And if this story meant something to you, help us do it again. The ICU unit, carriers, gas for the drive, and the next ten babies. Every dollar goes to the animals. The link is in the first comment and at rfpsinc.com/donate. Happy Halloween. 🎃

10/31/2026

Starting tomorrow: two weeks on the ptarmigan. ❄️

It lives in the Arctic all year long, turns white for winter, and sleeps inside snowbanks on purpose. Photos every morning, Stormy every evening, all the way to November 14.

Stormy has agreed to narrate again. He would like it on the record that he is a Timneh African grey, he is from West Africa, and he did not vote for this one either.

The coat is still imaginary. His opinions are still not.

10/31/2026

Happy Halloween from the scariest face in Kentucky. 🎃🖤

Fifty teeth. Zero bites.

The hiss is a costume. It wears it all year. The drool, the growl, the whole haunted house routine: all theater from an animal that would very much like to leave.

It plays dead better than any zombie on your street, and it can't even help it.

Scary face. Zero interest in you. Trick or treat? It would like to leave.

Tonight at 8, right here: the ending. Did they make it? 🖤

Address

Injured Wildlife Drop Off 4700 Dixie Highway By Appointment Only
Louisville, KY
40216

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 4pm
Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

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+15022357493

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