Holidaying green winged macaw up tree for six days at Red Shoot Camping Park, near Ringwood

A desperate parrot owner is appealing for help to rescue her bird which has been in a tree for six days.

Lindzey Fairbrass was enjoying a holiday at Red Shoot Camping Park in Lindwood, near Ringwood when the green winged macaw, called Marvel, took flight.

She had rescued the bird a few months ago and was trying to get it “desensitised” to noise by putting it on a perch outside her motorhome.

Lindzey said: “She had been kept in a tiny cage most of the time with no toys so her muscles had seized.

“So I believed she could not fly. I had her outside to desensitise her to the sounds of other birds, the tree movements and the wind.

“But the perch broke and, spooked, she flew up into a tree.”

A devastated Lindzey has spent all her time at the bottom of the tree trying to tease the bird back down to earth.

She said: “I have tried everything. It’s awful I am terrified she will die because she hasn’t eaten. I was supposed to go home on Monday but I’m not leaving poor Marvel.

“She’s freezing cold and has been in a tree for six days with no food or water. She is shaking.

“She just keeps calling out ‘Marvel is a good girl’. Birds that have been in captivity don’t always know how to descend, so I’m worried she will never come down.”

Lindzey put out a plea for help on social media, and several tree surgeons have responded. She has also asked for help from the fire brigade.

She said: “The tree surgeons climbed trees near her and she flew off to another one but unfortunately not where we can reach her.

“A local wildlife rescuer also came to help and we tried using long poles to get her down. But nothing has worked.”

Lindzey said she hoped that a drone operator might be able to drop a net over Marvel, or that the fire brigade can reach her with a ladder.

She said: “I am desperate, she is a beautiful creature, I can’t let her die.”