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Kya was a blue and gold macaw who spent the first 35 years of her life locked in a tiny metal box. She was wild caught, then kept as a breeder bird.
She was never touched, never let outside, never offered fresh food or clean water. Her life was hard, isolated, and quiet in all the wrong ways. But when a rescue finally stepped in, everything changed.
Kya was pulled from that cage and found her forever home — filled with sun, space, toys, good food, and love. She learned how to play. How to trust. How to live with people who cared.
This project is named after her.
She never got all the years she deserved, but she got the ending she needed. And she inspired the beginning of something bigger. The Kya Project exists to make sure more parrots, both in homes and in the wild, get that same chance at a better life. Every part of our work seeks to help people build stronger connections — with their birds, with each other, and with the natural world.
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Parrots are extraordinary but they face immense challenges everywhere they live.
In homes, they’re one of the most rehomed pets in the world. In the wild, habitat loss and poaching threaten their survival. Many never get the care, understanding, or freedom they need.
The Kya Project was created to change that through education, rescue, community, and conservation.
We teach people how parrots think and live. We rehabilitate birds with difficult pasts and help them heal, sometimes becoming ambassadors who teach others. We support rescue organizations across the country and work to protect parrots where they belong: in the wild.
Most of all, we connect people who care.
Our community brings together bird owners, educators, students, and conservationists to share knowledge, build empathy, and take action that makes a difference.
Every parrot deserves understanding and ethical care.
Education builds empathy, and empathy drives conservation.
Rescue and rehabilitation are acts of both compassion and learning.
Real change happens when people come together with openness and care.
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