Help me & Yoda bring home another Feather Baby

I am a bird lover and hand-raised from a baby my beloved Sumo (a 27-year-old Double Yellow-Headed Amazon) who was tragically killed by my neighbor's dog 7 months ago. Me and my poor Yoda (a 17-year-old Blue and Gold Macaw), who was Sumo's best feathered friend and who I also raised from a baby, were devastated. You'd have to be an animal lover to understand they are like family, and we still mourn his loss.

Yoda has never been alone; he always had Sumo by his side and hasn't been the same without him. Yoda still has meltdowns and is still depressed. The Double Yellow-Headed Amazon breed is now on the Endangered Species list, and after months of searching, I finally found a baby bird in the state of Florida that I bought from a "breeder" on Craigslist. The same place I found Sumo and Yoda years ago which was a great resource back then. Unfortunately I found out the hard way that is not the case anymore after what happened.

The breeder I met from Craigslist profited from selling me a sick baby bird, lied to me, and then ghosted me. Me and Yoda are once again devastated. Yoda was very excited the night I brought the new baby home and so curious. Yoda would climb up on my desk every day to watch me feed the baby we called "Bink-Bink".

The baby bird's name was initially supposed to be "2umo" in honor of Sumo, but all the baby did was go "bink-bink-bink" like in the video non-stop from sun up to sun down like a broken notification on repeat. So I started calling it Bink-Bink, and then just Bink for short. The baby was so adorable and sweet. I asked the breeder if that was normal, and he said it was vocal. I later found out from an Avian Vet that it was not normal and the bird was distressed and doing that from the very moment he handed it over to me.

It had been 27 years, and I couldn't remember what Sumo sounded like as a baby; it was so long ago, but I pretty sure I recall him being very chill after feeding. I trusted the breeder and thought maybe I had a girl this time and that's why the behavior was different. Burt that was not the case because the breeder unloaded a dying baby bird, kept the money, and ghosted me.

There is an annual traveling Southeast Exotic Bird Fair in Florida this summer 2025. I'm trying to raise the funds to get another baby Double Yellow-Headed Amazon from a reputable breeder before the fair's hosted events end for the year. A breeder I talked to who is planning on attending says he will have Double Yellow-Headed Amazon babies. I was hoping to get us another one before it's too late.