Apollos Bird Store

I’ve been coming to this store for years and love it. People need to understand the Bunni is the sole employee/​owner. This isn’t Petco. She does have things come up occasionally that may require hours to change without notice.
I’ve been to the other parrot stores and I can tell you, Bunni has very high health standards for her birds. Better than the store in Bothell for sure. I also bought an eclectus from Bunni and he is sweet and healthy and the light of my life. If «Harry’s» eclectus died after 10 months, it stands to reason something in the bird’s home environment was off. Diet, cage, something. You don’t get to blame the shop that sold you a bird after nearly a year of the animal being in your care. «Harry» also took the bird to an avian vet known in the community for over medicating birds (medication = profit after all).
I love this store and recommend it highly. Thanks for all your help and advice over the years Bunni! — Kristine

Went here on a Friday at 2:30 and hours are posted until 6:00. My wife and I told the owner we were looking for a Cockatiel. She said she didn’t have one and that she was planning on closing early, so…
We took the hint and left as she was no longer providing any additional help. The store is untidy and animals poorly kept.
There is a fantastic family bakery next door where the girl at the front was a sweetheart offering free cookies. So not a total loss.

I bought an Eclectus parrot at this store and within two weeks I took him to an avian vet and discovered he had an E. Coli infection and had to give him medication. Another oddity for our parrot was when he was still being weaned at the store, he was stuck in a fish tank with a Macaw parrot which was practically climbing on top of him. Our parrot died 10 months after we purchased him, and after spending $ 400 at another vet, the cause was never determined. The store has a 1-​year guarantee that if the bird dies from natural causes, then they would replace it, however I did not do my own diligence to read the fine print that you have to take the bird’s carcass to a vet of the store’s choice and even if I did, I think the outcome of the «report» would be obvious. Don’t buy into the «1-​year guarantee» this store tells you, you are ultimately responsible to pay for the necropsy report costs, you might as well spend that money at another bird breeder/​store which sells a healthy and well taken care of bird.
This is just my own experience with this store that I’m sharing and I’m sure that there are many happy customers who have purchased a parrot from this store. Doing some research on stores and breeders is never a bad thing.

We purchased a conure from Apollo’s several months ago. Initially I was rather pleased with the store – lots of un-​caged, seemingly happy birds out on their perches. Lots of moths flying around from the food, though.
We continued to purchase supplies and food from Apollo’s, but often noticed that the owner was, at best, disinterested. The whole shop is just sort of slapdash, and it always seemed that any questions were met with a healthy dose of apathy.
Recently, we scheduled a week in advance to board our conure for a long weekend while we were out of town. We arrived to drop our conure off at 10am right when the store was supposed to open. SUPPOSED to open. After 45 minutes of sitting in the parking lot, repeatedly calling, and staring at the shuttered windows and locked door, we left and made other last minute arrangements, though we were still an hour late getting to the airport.
Once we finally got in touch with the store to cancel the boarding reservation, we were met with an aloof apology and a muttered excuse about being ‘stuck in traffic’ with no offer to make it right. We had also planned to groom our bird during his stay. Since the stay didn’t work out, we asked if we could bring him in the following Monday for nails and a wing-​clipping. Nope. Again, an apathetic reply that grooming could only be done on Saturdays, and click went the phone.
Today, we decided to try Wings of the World in Bothell for a grooming. What a gem of a store. Not only was grooming complimentary, but we learned more about our bird in 20 minutes there than we did from multiple visits to Apollo’s. The shop and staff were amazing, eager to help, and genuinely love all things bird-​related.
Good luck to you, Apollo’s. We won’t darken your door again.

This store isn’t horrible it is just small, very disorganized, and depends on the day super messy or somewhat clean. I use to come here a lot but the owner seemed to never knowledge me or remember me, not that I am saying she should but I can here a lot, at least one every other week. Her prices on birds are very fair but they always have split feathers. It is true about the birds in the stands. Don’t touch them! She charges really low for grooming so that’s cool just it’s only on Saturdays. I think her hours are weird and I had a really hard time going. Parking can be hard. I resently went to wings of the world and it is far better. It isn’t a 3 star, it’s about 2.5.

I’ve been here twice with my birds. The first time was with a family members Macaw to have his beak, nails and wings done. The second time was with my conure for the same thing. I found the birds living here to be in great condition. The store itself is a bit messy, but it looks like the owner is working on it. The Mother and daughter that own/​work here are very nice and knowledgeable about everything bird.
Tips: They only charge 5 dollars for small birds and 15 for large birds when doing nails, beak and wing trims… way cheaper than the vet and she does a great job.
The food and toys are priced fairly and so are the birds for sale. They prefer cash and will give a discount if you use cash instead of debit/​credit cards.
Beware! If you don’t have previous bird experience… Don’t touch the birds! The owner told me which birds were «nice» and the first time I was in there I got bit by a «baby» cockatoo… he was NOT NICE! The second time I was told a goffin cockatoo was nice (he looked perfectly sweet) and the little turd jumped on my head, laughed and proceeded to attack me. The owner stood 10 feet away and either chose to ignore the fact that I was fighting for my head back or she was just oblivious to the attack that was happening right in front of her. I managed to up the viscous little attacker and get him back on his cage, but I left with my hair all disarray and my fingers bleeding. Lesson learned!

I personally find this store to be a disorganized mess. The lady who owns the shop is polite but very disorganized and is not good at multitasking. We bought a bird from this store and was healthy and there were no issues there and at least she has a one year health guarantee on her baby birds. I found the selection of toys and food to be inadequate and the store is cramped and not sure I feel that the birds should all be on perches when there being boarded. I felt the store was super noisy and was so confused on which birds were for sale and felt to interact with the birds was rather difficult except for the baby ones. Though her prices are reasonable for her babies and overall i am satisfied with the store just needs some improvement. Personally I enjoy Wings of the World more in Bothell.

I guess business is still business. Not so sure about they truly have real interest in the birds’ welfare. The store, generally speaking, is great. Lots of exotic birds. Friendly owner. Just got one recently. Able to get a comparable price for a cage. Unfortunately, the cage was delivered to the store without being checked wheter the parts were in good shape. I would think that was the store’s responsibility to sell their customer good qaulity product instead of for customer to take care of how to get the parts from the manufacturer. The bird has to stay in the smaller, temporary cage longer. Poor bird. Not quite sure the store owner cares about it or not. Or business is business. when it is sold, it is your problem?

This place is great! They have more birds out in the store than anyother place Ive seen. They have GREAT prices on toys, food and birds! One of the best bird stores I’ve been to!
The birds are all very well trained and seem very happy and healthy! I’m very impressed!
The people are very friendly and helpful! I will only buy from this place from now on! I’d give them 10 stars if I could! Great prices, superb service and super easy to get to!