For more than a month, Havi, a beloved pet parrot, has been missing, and the search for him has become far more than a simple missing pet case.

For the person who raised him from a baby, Havi was family, routine, comfort, and unconditional love wrapped into feathers, noise and personality.

“He was my whole world,” says Havi’s owner, Andre Juan le Sueur.

Since Havi’s disappearance, and despite countless searches, flyers, sightings, and community support, there have been no confirmed updates in recent weeks. Two women with pet conures even came out to help search, hoping their own birds’ calls might encourage Havi to respond.

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One possible breakthrough came when a parrot call was reportedly heard near the area of a previous sighting. Hope surged briefly. There was mention of a nearby aviary containing an Amazon parrot, and doors were knocked on in the area in the desperate hope that someone had seen him. But nothing concrete followed.

Since then, searches around Ardtully Street in Kenmare, the location of the last reported sighting, have yielded only sightings of wild ringneck parrots, raising fears that some reports of Havi may actually have been mistaken identity.

Still, hope remains.

“At this point, I’m just hoping someone has taken him in,” Andre says. “It’s better than the alternative.”

And in many ways, that hope is grounded in love rather than denial. After so much time, there has been no evidence of harm. No feathers. No signs of an attack. Nothing to suggest the worst has happened. Instead, there’s the lingering possibility that Havi may be alive somewhere, frightened at first, perhaps, but cared for by someone who found him.

Andre hopes that if that is the case, Havi is being loved properly.

Because Havi was never ‘just a bird’. He was hand-raised from infancy. Andre woke every four hours through the night to feed him as a chick, carefully nurturing him through those fragile first weeks. He was taught to fly. He learned routines. He learned affection. He became part of everyday life in the deepest possible sense.

“He would sleep in bed with me,” Andre recalls. “If I worked too late, he’d fight with me so we could go to bed.”

Havi was there every morning and every night, the first face seen upon waking and the last voice spoken to before sleep. Over time, he became woven into the fabric of ordinary life so completely that his absence now feels impossible to comprehend.

The hardest part, he says, is trying to return to normal life while carrying the weight of not knowing.

There is also pain in knowing that Havi’s disappearance could have been prevented. His loss came through someone else’s negligence, a fact that makes the grief even more difficult to process. But despite the heartbreak, Andre says anger has never outweighed love.

“Instead, I hope that somewhere, he is still climbing onto shoulders, demanding bedtime attention, and making himself the centre of someone’s universe the same way he once was for the person who raised him.”

And if someone out there does have Havi, knowingly or unknowingly, Andre has one message:

“Give him all the love he deserves. He was my whole world, and I hope he will be someone else’s as well.”

Anyone with information or sightings is encouraged to come forward and contact Andre-Juan on 078 027 5948.