Every year during the Clark County Fair, Zena, a double yellow-headed Amazon parrot, can be heard singing “Old Macdonald” during Chris Biro’s Pirate Parrot Show. Before stepping onto the traveling show, her journey began here in Clark County.
Zena once belonged to Chris Barker, the father of The Reflector reporter Cade Barker, who didn’t plan to adopt a parrot when he walked into a Portland bird shop in 2012. According to Barker, the connection between the two was instantaneous.
“I was walking by some parrots … One of them was out of the cage and it hopped onto my shoulder,” Barker said. “She started nestling into my neck and kind of preening my hair, and the owner of the shop said, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve never seen anything like that with her.'”…