The National Parrot Sanctuary

The National Parrot Sanctuary is the largest facility in the UK for psittacines, providing ‘home’ to more than 1000 birds. The Sanctuary is unique in the United Kingdom offering long-term sanctuary for all of its residents.

The Sanctuary is known worldwide for the amazing work carried out and is led by Steve Nichols who has studied this amazing creature for nearly 30 years. The Sanctuary team are there to help any parrot in any situation that arises.

Nestled within the Parrot Zoo Trust - Lincolnshire Wildlife Park, the Sanctuary remains the most important part of our work and the core reason we exist. We have been operating since the early 1990’s and have helped thousands of birds from all over the world.

Working alongside top veterinary surgeons and universities in the United Kingdom, we have created a haven for these special creatures and strive to ensure all our birds are catered for with housing, enrichment, and nutrition.

Our team of animal carers are dedicated to offering every bird everything they need to enable a fulfilling quality of life, from nutrition to ‘one-to-one’ care and enrichment.

We encourage all our birds to live naturally within a colony to prevent one of the main causes of behavioural problems.

It is accepted that parrots thrive when offered the opportunity to live with others of their own species, and with over 100 species of bird already living at the Sanctuary this is something that only we have the facilities to offer. Unlike any other rescue centre or sanctuary in the United Kingdom, The National Parrot Sanctuary offers long-term care where parrots can live outside in fresh air, taking in the sun and rain making their own daily choices as to when they eat, sleep, play or scream. (And they all do at some point every day!).

After many years of change at the park, animals arriving left right and centre, we are now ready for reinvigorating The National Parrot Sanctuary, starting with the ARRC, closely followed by the Captive Parrot Conservation Project.