EDGEWATER — For the last month, Haya Suri has been a mess leaving school and even missing work in pursuit of any clue about her missing bird, Kie Kie Kah.
She's received tons of tips about the missing hybrid Jenday Sun Conure, sending her to all parts of the city at all times of the day, but to no avail. One day, she even spent about six hours looking for her.
"When my mom brought her home she said she brought home an angel. Now, every time I go home it's dark without her," Suri, 20, said through tears Wednesday. "I'm like going crazy and I don't know what to do. We're on alert every time we get a call."
Suri's mother brought Kie Kie Kah home about a year ago after seeing her caged inside a pet store. The brightly colored bird was about 6 months old at the time, she said.
"She had no intention of buying the bird, but when she passed by her she literally fell in love with her. [My mother] said, 'Oh my god, I can't let this bird live inside this glass container," Suri said.
Kie Kie Kah went missing last month while being watched by a family member because "she has to be supervised" at all times. When her cousin took the bird outside, she flew away. When Suri learned of the bird's disappearance she dropped everything and came over, she said.
According to the fliers posted around Uptown and Edgewater, and posts on Neighborhood Square, the bird was last seen around 6:30 p.m. Sept. 19 near Sheridan Road and Ardmore Avenue in Edgewater.
"I kept calling her and calling her and she never came back. We took this bird out hundreds of times and she never flew away. We never clipped her wings because we never wanted to hurt her," she said.
Since then, she's been posting fliers all over Uptown in hopes of finding her. The family is even offering a $1,000 reward for the return of the bird, she said.
"A lot of people have said, 'it's just a bird,' but it's not a bird. It's a family member. And we would give anything to the person who finds [her]," Suri said.
Anyone with information can contact Suri at: Hayasuri@gmail.com
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