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Enterprise Estonia and Agricultural Registries and Information Board finance the centre with nearly 28,000 euros.

A bird veterinarian will be receiving parrots in the bird hotel, birds are offered overnight accommodation for the time when their owner is for example on a trip or even a new home if the owner gets tired of their birds.

Estonian Animal Protection Society bird specialist Katarina Bright, who in profession is advertising manager of an information hotline, created in 2010 a web site papagoi.ee, where people interested in parrots could write about their problems and concerns. The people also asked about the service of a bird hotel – there are hotels for dogs and cats in Estonia but where could they leave their birds during trips? Animal Protection Society members thus recommended Bright that instead of charity-based instructions, she could open an official birds centre and thus she decided to open the Parrot Centre, that she and her husband own.

Bright said that as far as she knows, this will be the first parrot centre in the Baltic states, and the closest similar centre is located in Germany. She said that the hotel will accommodate 100 birds and the first "clients" are already in the waiting list.