Caught in a flap: missing €14k parrot turns up in glitzy Marbella nightclub

Soly, a blue and yellow Hyacinth Macaw worth €14,000, is now home safe and sound following a night on the tiles at a fancy Marbella club. Photo: Olive Press.

Read the news at the moment and it feels like the world has been stripped of something: something so important to our wellbeing that nobody knows quite what to do next.

That’s right, with real, actual news dominating, the traditional summer ‘Silly Season’ has been shunted from its rightful place on the front pages. But if you look hard enough you can still find hilarious tales of crocodiles in London, totally ill-equipped politicians running for office, and a highlights reel of the England football team’s European Championship performance…

The Costa del Sol has, encouragingly, played its part this week in the Summer Silly Season, with the tale of a missing exotic bird turning up safe and well in one of Marbella’s most exclusive nightclubs.

The Olive Press Newspaper reports on the plight of Soly, a Hyacinth Macaw worth an estimated €14,000, who vanished last week from his cage in the home of local property developer Richard Breuer, 40.

Left ‘panic stricken’ by the bird’s disappearance, Breuer recalled how – after putting out numerous missing posters and alerting the police – he received a call from the eponymous owner of fancy Marbella nightspot Olivia Valère to say that Soly had been found alive and well at the nightclub.

Speaking of his relief, Breuer said: “Soly was a bit apprehensive after we took him home. It took him a couple of days to come back down to earth.”

As it turns out, Soly is a bit of a ladies’ bird, enjoying the attention of females more than males – which perhaps explains his decision to make a bee-line for the glamorous club. Once there, he flew into the lap of a barmaid working behind the bar, who alerted the club’s owner Valère. She duly took him home to her own private aviary before being made aware of the missing posters dotted around Marbella and making the call to reunite Soly with his owner.

“We’re very lucky he was found,” said Breuer. “There are many who would have stolen him for money,” he added, but sadly didn’t end with… “to feather their own nest.”

So, a funny tale that proves two things: all’s well that ends well, and the Summer Silly Season has finally arrived!