Buy an African Grey Parrot Online — Documented, Weaned, and Priced in the Open

Six Birds Are Reservable Today — Here Is Each One

Every bird below lives here right now, and the photograph beside each name was taken in this house, not bought from a stock library. We list what we have, so the grid is short; when a bird goes, the card goes with it instead of staying up to collect enquiries.

Congo

Bery

$1,700

Grown hen, past weaning and past the settling wobbles a younger bird still has ahead.

Congo Hen Papers included

Ships nationwide · $185 airport · $350 home

Ask about Bery

Congo

Amie

$2,500

Hand-fed from a syringe in our kitchen; she finishes weaning here before she flies.

Congo Hen Papers included

Ships nationwide · $185 airport · $350 home

Ask about Amie

Congo

Roys

$2,300

Busy, bold cock who works a foraging toy until it gives up its last pellet.

Congo Cock Papers included

Ships nationwide · $185 airport · $350 home

Ask about Roys

Companion pair

Jins & Jeni

$3,500

Two unrelated Congos raised side by side and placed together as a companion pair.

Congo Two birds Papers included

Ships nationwide · $185 airport · $350 home

Ask about Jins & Jeni

Timneh

Elad

$1,600

Charcoal Timneh cock, horn-coloured upper beak, already stepping up on request.

Timneh Cock Papers included

Ships nationwide · $185 airport · $350 home

Ask about Elad

Timneh

Evie

$1,500

Timneh hen who watches a room for a while before she decides to join it.

Timneh Hen Papers included

Ships nationwide · $185 airport · $350 home

Ask about Evie

The Congo African Greys We Have Available Today

Congos are the larger of the two, with the scarlet tail most people picture when they hear the name, and we have 4 of them including the pair. Bery is grown and settled. Amie is still on formula and finishes weaning in our kitchen. Roys is the busy one, the bird who will dismantle a foraging toy while the others watch.

What Does Each Congo African Grey Cost?

Congos here run from $1,700, and the companion pair is $3,500 because two birds leave together. The spread inside that range is about age and about which bird has already done the growing, not about a sliding scale we apply to whoever asks. The number on the card is the number you pay.

Every Congo Price Includes Sexing, Paperwork, and a Vet Certificate

Nothing on the list in the receipt above is an extra. A bird that has been examined, screened, sexed and papered costs us more to raise than a bird that has only been fed, and pricing those steps separately would let us advertise a smaller headline while charging the same money in the end. We would rather print one figure and stand behind it.

Price Check: What a Congo Price Should Always Include

Ask any seller to itemise, and listen for four things: hand-feeding through to weaning, an avian examination before sale, a sexing result on paper and the treaty documentation. If the reply covers only the bird, the rest was either skipped or is coming as a surprise invoice later. Our costs page sets the same arithmetic out across a first year rather than a single purchase.

The Timneh African Greys We Have Available Today

Timnehs are the smaller subspecies, darker in the body, with a maroon tail and a horn-coloured upper beak instead of the Congo's solid black. Elad and Evie are both here, both weaned, and both priced in the $1,500–$1,600 band.

Is a Timneh a Cheaper African Grey or a Different Bird?

A different bird that happens to cost less. The price gap follows demand and size, not quality, and the birds themselves differ in temperament: ours tend to start talking earlier and take a room's changes more calmly. Buying one to save money is the wrong reason. Buying one because a steadier, slightly smaller parrot suits your household is the right one.

Timneh Pricing Reflects Size and Demand, Not a Lesser Bird

The same feeding, the same examination and the same paperwork go into a Timneh as into a Congo, so the margin on one is thinner rather than fatter. What moves the price is that fewer buyers arrive asking for them by name, which is a fact about the market and not about the parrot sitting on the perch.

Price Check: Why Our Timnehs Start at $1,500

That figure is the floor for this whole aviary, and it exists because below it the arithmetic of raising a bird properly stops working. When you see a Timneh advertised at half of it, the saving is coming out of something — the feeding, the testing, the paperwork, or the truth of the listing itself.

Jins and Jeni — the Companion Pair We Sell Together

Jins and Jeni are not siblings and were not bred as a pair; they are two hand-raised Congos who grew up side by side, and we offer them together as a companion pair at $3,500 for both. They are listed here as a pair. If you want one of them on their own, ask us and we will talk it through rather than quote a policy.

What Does “Hand-Raised” Mean Here?

We call our own way of doing it The Benjamin Home-Raising Protocol: chicks raised in the house rather than a barn, hand-fed on a schedule we keep ourselves, and held back until they are weaned and eating unaided somewhere between twelve and sixteen weeks. It is our name for our practice, not a certificate anybody issued us, and the reason we name it at all is that “hand-raised” has become a word sellers use without doing any of it.

What Every Bird Card Tells You Before You Ask

Each card above carries the same six facts, in the same places, so you can compare birds instead of decoding listings. Name, subspecies, sex, price, what travels with the bird, and the delivery tiers. If a detail you need is missing, it is missing from our records too, and we will say so rather than fill the gap with something plausible.

Why the Same Bird Carries Four Different Price Tags

African Grey asking prices ran from $850 to $8,500 on the single August 2026 afternoon we recorded them. That spread is not a market finding its level. Part of it is one seller quoting three different numbers on three platforms on the same day.

Third-party figures are readings from one afternoon and will have moved since. Ours are current and sit in the data file this page reads from.

One Seller, Three Platforms, Three Different Prices

The clearest thing we found was not the cheap end. It was one aviary advertising its birds at four and a half thousand on a classified site, seven and a half on its own website and eight and a half through an aggregator, all live at once. No bird changed. Only the audience did.

What Did We Actually Measure in August 2026?

Six sources, read on one afternoon, written down as we found them: two free-hosted sellers at the bottom, one seller across three platforms in the middle and upper range, and Google's own overview of this search at the top. We did not average them, because an average of a fiction and a fact is another fiction.

The Same Aviary's Birds Carried a Four-Thousand-Dollar Spread in One Day

Four thousand dollars is not a discount or a promotion. It is a seller discovering what each platform's buyers will tolerate and pricing accordingly, which is legal, common, and worth knowing about before you take any single listing as the market rate for a parrot.

What We Measured: The Three Listings, Side by Side

Classified four and a half thousand. Own site seven and a half. Aggregator eight and a half. Same seller, same afternoon, same photographs of the same birds on all three.

What an Honest African Grey Price Is Made Of

An honest African Grey price covers six real costs: months of hand-feeding, the pre-sale veterinary examination, the screening panel, the sexing assay, the paper folder and the travel crate. They are the reason a floor exists at all. Strip any of them out and the price can fall. So can the bird's chances.

Why Is an $850 African Grey a Warning Sign?

Because the feeding alone outruns it. A chick eats formula for months, somebody is awake for the night feeds, and the veterinary work happens whether or not a buyer appears. At eight hundred and fifty dollars the sums fail before the bird is weaned, which means one of three things is untrue: the bird, the testing, or the seller's existence.

Hand-Feeding, Avian Vet Care, and Documentation Set the Real Floor

Our floor is $1,500 and it is arithmetic, not positioning. Take the formula, the hours, the examination, the panel, the assay and the paperwork, and that is where a bird stops costing us money to place. A seller beneath it is either subsidising from somewhere or not doing the work.

What We Measured: Where the Low Listings Cluster

Both sub-thousand listings we found sat on free website hosts, showed no individual bird, named no veterinary practice and offered delivery free of charge. The pattern repeats because it costs nothing to publish.

How to Price-Check Any African Grey Breeder in Ten Minutes

Search the price, compare it against the range on this page, ask the seller to itemise, then ask to see the bird live. Four moves, ten minutes, and they settle most questions before any money moves. Our own credentials page is written so you can run those checks on us.

What Should You Ask Before You Send a Deposit?

Who owns the bird right now, can I see it live today, what paperwork comes with it, and how do you take payment. Four questions, and the last one carries the most weight, because a seller pushing you at a wire, a gift card or a cash app has picked the one route with no way back.

What Paperwork Comes With an African Grey You Buy From Us?

Five documents and a banded leg, handed over together, not posted on afterwards. Not one page-one competitor we checked publishes its documentation list, which is odd, because the folder is the part that proves a bird is what the listing says it is.

The documents shown are samples with personal fields redacted. Your bird's own paperwork is provided on request.

The Appendix I Certificate in Your Folder

Fact ↗African Greys sit on Appendix I of the CITES treaty, which restricts international commercial trade in wild-caught birds. Ours are bred here, and the certificate in your folder records exactly that, which is what makes owning and transporting one inside this country straightforward.

Why Does CITES Matter When You Buy an African Grey?

Because it is the difference between a bird with a lawful history and a bird with none. The paperwork ties your parrot to a captive-bred origin, and a seller who cannot produce it is asking you to take the most checkable fact about your bird on trust. The documentation page walks through each certificate in detail.

Appendix I Has Applied to Every African Grey Since January 2017

The uplisting took effect that month, so any bird offered as pre-treaty stock is either much older than it looks or being described dishonestly. It changed nothing about keeping a captive-bred parrot as a pet and a great deal about importing one.

On the Paperwork: What Appendix I Does and Does Not Mean

It does mean international commercial trade in wild-caught birds is barred. It does not mean you need a personal licence to keep a captive-bred bird at home, and it does not make your purchase a grey area. Keep the certificate with the rest of the folder.

Sex Testing and the Screens We Run

Observed here · 6 birds, since 2014Every bird here is sexed by a laboratory before it is listed, and the same sample type carries the disease panel. You get the certificate with the laboratory's name on it rather than our opinion, which matters for a species that gives no reliable visual clue either way.

How Do You Know the Sex of the Bird You Are Buying?

From the DNA result, never from the bird's appearance. Hens and cocks look alike at every age, so anyone telling you a bird is female because of its head shape or its tail is guessing. Ours arrive with the assay on paper, tied to the ring number. The testing page explains the method and what the fee covers.

Our USDA AWA Licence, and What It Lets You Verify

Mark and Teri Benjamin hold a federal USDA licence under the Animal Welfare Act, and the number is yours on request so you can look us up instead of taking our word. That is the point of a licence: it puts a third party between a seller's claim about themselves and a buyer's ability to check it.

The Hatch Record and the Leg Ring

The ring on your bird's leg went on as a chick and cannot be fitted to an adult, so it is the one identifier that cannot be moved between birds. Its number appears on the hatch certificate and on every other certificate in the folder, so you can match paperwork to parrot yourself on the first evening.

The First 72 Hours After Your Bird Lands

Our written guarantee runs 72 hours from arrival, with a separate 24-hour clause for anything caused by the journey. It is short on purpose, and we would rather explain why than let a longer number do the persuading.

The 72-Hour Guarantee, Stated Plainly

Three days from the moment your bird reaches you, an examination by your own avian vet decides the question, and the remedy is replacement or refund. Book the appointment before the bird travels, because the better avian practices keep a waiting list, and the clock keeps running while you look for one.

Is a Longer Guarantee a Better Guarantee?

Usually the opposite. A year-long promise sounds generous precisely because almost nobody expects to be asked to honour it, and the sellers advertising the longest windows in our search were the ones we could verify least. A short window that names its terms is worth more than a long one that names none.

What Makes a Health Guarantee Enforceable?

Four things: it is in writing, it names an independent vet as the arbiter, it states a time limit, and it states the remedy. Ours does all four and the full policy carries the wording. A guarantee missing any of them is a sentiment rather than a term.

A Guarantee Is Worth Exactly as Much as the Address Behind It

Any document is only as good as your ability to find the people who wrote it. We are a licensed aviary at a verifiable address with a phone number in the footer, which is the part that makes the rest of it mean anything.

On the Paperwork: What Ours Says, Word for Word

Seventy-two hours from arrival for health, twenty-four for transit, confirmed by your own avian veterinarian, settled as replacement or refund, void on removing the leg ring or on skipping the examination. The document identifies your bird by the ring number, not by its name, so the paperwork section matters more than it looks.

Getting Your Bird From Our Aviary to Your City

Three routes, three prices, all printed. Shipping is how a bird reaches you, not a reason to buy one, so we treat it as logistics to be explained plainly instead of a headline.

Ships nationwide · $185 airport cargo · $350 home delivery · $750 cabin with a flight nanny · collection here is free within a two to three hour drive.

$185 Airport Cargo, Collected at the Desk

Most buyers choose this one. Your bird flies as manifested live-animal cargo in a crate meeting the airline's live-animal standard, on a direct flight wherever the route allows, and you collect at the cargo desk, not a baggage carousel. Delta, United and American all carry them.

$350 Home Delivery to Your Door

Home delivery brings the crate to the address you give us, on a date we agree first. It suits buyers who would rather not drive to a cargo counter, or who live a long way from one. It costs more because a person makes the journey with your bird instead of the airline.

Pickup in Midland, Texas

Free, and the gentlest option for the bird, which is why buyers within a few hours of us drive it regularly. You meet the parrot where it grew up, we go through the folder at the table, and nothing about the day involves a crate in a cargo hold. A cabin seat with a flight nanny is the third option at $750, quoted per route because the nanny buys a ticket too.

How Long Is an African Grey Actually in Transit?

On a direct routing, the flight itself is a few hours and the whole day usually ends with your bird home the same afternoon. We book around connections rather than through them, because that is where handling and temperature risk stack up.

We Book Direct Flights and Keep Total Transit Under Eight Hours

Eight hours is our ceiling from crate to collection, and we will change the date before we accept a routing that breaks it. If your nearest airport only takes connections, we will say so before you pay and look at the other two routes with you.

What Happens on Arrival Day

You collect, you bring your bird home, you put the crate in a quiet room and let it open in its own time. Food and water go in straight away, visitors do not. The first evening is for settling, not introductions, and the vet appointment you booked earlier does the rest.

Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, Wisconsin — What Buyers There Ask

Buyers in these five states ask us three practical questions more than any others. They ask which airport, what the drive looks like at the other end, and whether the paperwork changes at a state line. It does not.

What Buyers in These Five States Ask Us Most

Three questions, in this order: how the bird travels, what arrives with it, and what happens if something is wrong on the first day. The answers are the same whether you are in Des Moines or Baltimore, which is rather the point of writing them on one page instead of five.

Your Nearest Cargo Airport, and What It Changes

It changes the day rather than the price. A direct route means an afternoon collection; a city served only by connections means we look at home delivery instead. Tell us your city and we will tell you which of the three routes actually works from here.

Congo or Timneh — Which Suits Your Household?

Fact ↗Both are African Greys, and the two subspecies of Psittacus erithacus differ in size, tail colour and beak more than most buyers expect. Which one suits you is a question about your rooms and your routine rather than about which bird is better.

If This Is Your First Parrot

Fact ↗A well-kept African Grey lives 40 to 60 years, so a bird bought this year may still be with your household in the 2080s. That is the fact worth sitting with before the price is. We point most first-time owners at a Timneh, because ours tend to settle faster and take household noise in their stride. That is a tendency, not a rule, and Bery would suit a beginner better than some Timnehs would. The full comparison sets both birds out trait by trait if you want to decide it yourself.

Five Checks That Catch a Fake Listing

A fraudulent listing fails the same five tests every time, and running them costs you ten minutes. We publish them knowing they apply to us as much as to anyone else selling a bird online.

What to Ask, and What to Refuse

Ask for the address, the licence, the live call and the folder. Refuse a wire transfer, a gift card, a peer-to-peer app and any story about why the bird cannot be seen moving today. The refusals matter more than the questions, because a seller only needs one irreversible payment route to disappear down.

Can a Video Call Prove a Bird Is Real?

It is the single hardest thing for a fake listing to produce. Ask for the call now, not later, ask the seller to move the bird onto a hand, and ask a question they have to answer live. A recorded clip proves a parrot existed somewhere once; a live call proves this one exists today.

Only a Verifiable Address Has Ever Stopped One of These

Every other signal can be faked cheaply: photographs, testimonials, a professional-looking site, even a licence number copied from a real aviary. A physical place with people at it is the one thing a fraudulent seller cannot manufacture, which is why our guide to spotting a scam starts there rather than with the price.

African Grey Buying Questions We Answer Every Week

Twelve questions, answered the way we would answer them on the phone. Where a question has a number in it, the number comes from the same data file the prices on this page read from.

Before You Buy

The four questions worth asking every seller are in the price section above, and the five checks are the section before this one. Run both on us. If anything we have written here does not survive the checking, we would rather hear it from you than have you wonder.

After You Reserve

Your deposit holds one named bird, the folder is prepared in your name, and we agree a travel date that suits the route, not the calendar. Between reserving and flying we send photographs, because the waiting is the hardest part for most buyers.

Reserve Your African Grey Parrot

Tell us which bird has caught your eye and the city you are in; Mark or Teri will answer within the day. A $200 deposit holds a bird; nothing is taken through this form.

Tell Us Which Bird and Where You Are

Those two facts are enough for us to answer properly: the bird decides the price and the paperwork, your city decides the route. Everything else we can work out in the reply.