While putting in new floors on my Catskills house my parrots seemed to all fly the coop. They ended up under the house sign. A GM (thank you) was able to put them back in the house and thats where they were when I logged off last night. This morning when I logged back in there they were all back on their perches. If you want to change your house you might want to redeed the parrots so yours wont fly the coop. I changed the floors here on Siege and had no problem. Ya never know.
If I remember right, just axe the perch and the parrot will redeem with the perch, I had the problem a few years ago and a GM told me to do it this way.
Thats the way to do it. I hit the base it gives a bigger target area.