A parrot found at Dublin Airport, which was temporarily named 'Troy', has been reunited with its owner.
This comes after the parrot was found by a cark park outside the airport, with authorities urging the rightful owner to contact them.
Following a vet check, the parrot was later identified as a female Alexandrine parakeet. However, staff at Dublin Airport appropriately named her 'Troy'. They also offered her some makeshift accommodation, by placing a brush handle in a dog crate.
"Our lovely lady Troy has been confirmed as a female Alexandrine parakeet after a vet check this morning", they said. "She is safe, happy and being very well looked after by the Airport Police unit, but she would really like to go home".
"Two of my airport police colleagues were on a routine patrol at Dublin Airport on Easter Sunday with their dog, Jimmy, when they were alerted by two Dublin Express coach sellers to a parrot perched on one of the bins outside Terminal 1", Deputy Director of Communications of daa, Kevin Culininane had said earlier this week.
"Now, one of the officers had some nuts in his pocket as it happened. So he approached the parrot and the parrot seemed to be quite hungry", he added. "We thought it was a he at the time. We subsequently think it may be a she. But the parrot was happy to eat out of his hand".
Dublin Airport have now announced that the parrot, whose real name is Lola, has been reunited with its owner.
Thankfully, Lola (not a showgirl!) was safely reunited with her owner, Gheroghe Sava.
Confirming this news on social media, the airport shared the following update: “After being spotted near Terminal 1, cared for by Airport Police and briefly rebranded as “Troy”, she has now been reunited with her owner, Gheorghe, this evening".
They added: “We were able to confirm Gheorghe was Lola’s owner through her tag number and her reaction to hearing her name".
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