A captive-bred wild animal is still a wild animal, he said. And why do people breed parrots that they know are never going to live in the wild? And when they can’t be sure what kind of people those birds are going to end up with? To make money, that’s all. That’s the only reason. They’re the ones who should be in jail. There’s only one excuse for owning a wild bird, he said, and that’s if it’s a rescue. And there are plenty of those.