Guests get full attention from Chucky, the newest member of the Thomson family in Napier.
After decades at the Cornwall Park Aviary in Hastings, Chucky the sulphur-crested cockatoo has been rehomed to Tania Thomson's lounge.
She said the aviary's other sulphur-crested cockatoo was picking on Chucky causing stress to the poor cockatoo. It was so bad that Chucky started plucking feathers out of his own chest.
"Nobody likes to see an animal in stress. The public started to complain," Thomson said.
"We just adore him."