A MISSING parrot was reunited with its owners two months after disappearing.

Owners Jerry and Irene Williams, from Prenton, had been desperately searching for Bluefronted Amazon, "Jack", since November.

They had given up hope of finding him after posters and adverts failed to track him down - and then Jack showed up at Chester Zoo.

Workers at the zoo found the tropical pet perched outside their tropical house and recognised him as a non-resident.

Mr Williams said: "After such a long time I thought I was never going to get him back. I’ve had him for almost 10 years so I was devastated, absolutely devastated.

“When Chester Zoo called to say they’d found him I was absolutely speechless. I was amazed. I can’t thank them enough.” And team leader Andy Woolham, who spotted Jack, said: “We have critically endangered Green-cheeked Amazon and Ecuadorian Amazon parrots at the zoo that both have young which are still being fed by their parents, so Jack was probably attracted to them by the noise.

“I could tell he was ravenously hungry so I enticed him down with a grape. No parrot can resist a black grape”.

Jack was taken to the home Mr Woolham's of mother where he lived for eight weeks until a neighbour recognised him from a 'wanted' poster.

And despite his extensive efforts to track down the pedigree parrot, Mr Williams said he was still taken aback by Chester Zoo’s call.

He added: “Ever since the day I watched on helplessly as Jack flew off over the trees at the end of the garden and up over Prenton Park, I thought I’d never see him again. “So it’s just wonderful to have him back, just wonderful.

“We’ve been having a lot of what I like to call QPT - Quality Parrot Time. He’s happy to sit for hours and hours and watch TV with us and he particularly likes the jingle to EastEnders.

“But the best bit of all was when our little granddaughter first saw him again. She spent about 20 minutes pointing at him, shouting ‘birdie, birdie!'"

Mr and Mrs Williams have made a donation to Chester Zoo’s Phillippine Cockatoo conservation programme as a show of their gratitude for Jack’s safe but unexpected return.