Mike Taylor picked up the 25-year-old he calls "Love Love" of Montana Parrot exotic Bird Sanctuary & in Butte on Sunday.
Taylor said that his wife sold the bird after a nasty divorce. "Kind of been looking for him all the time," he said.
A friend of Taylor, Steven Campbell, recently sighted bird during a visit to the shrine.
It took some time for Campbell to convince Taylor. Then Taylor had to convince founder Lori McAlexander sanctuary. But she said she knew things about the bird that could know only one previous owner, as if he was blind in one eye, said "love love" and liked to play peek-a-boo.
The bird was surrendered to the sanctuary a couple of years ago, after a woman so hard that requested medical assistance, bit McAlexander said.
"I don't even deal with him because he, he exclaimed," he said.
Love appeared to recognize immediately Taylor.
"Hanging upside down already, let me grab its beak makes her peeky-boo, love to slide your head," said Taylor, who has called the "heart touching reunion."
"He is the same again already, he really is. I mean, he (does). "
Taylor also has original bird cage had returned after a search on Craigslist. A woman who got the contents of storage units of his ex-wife has agreed to give him the cage back at no charge.
"It's kind of weird how he's getting his pecker and the cage," McAlexander said.
Taylor said that initially the bird in a sanctuary in Salt Lake City, after it was saved by a woman who reportedly beat him with a broom.
Ara can live up to 50 years, according to the San Diego Zoo.
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