Parrot

In Metal Gear Solid 3, in order to survive or regain stamina, Snake must eat food. This article contains information about the Parrot in the game.

Parrot

 * Ration Name:      BIRD A
 * Initial Taste:    Not too bad
 * Danger Level:     None
 * Stamina Recovery: Medium
 * Capture:          Yes

The Parrot is found during the battle with The End, or, if you killed The End when he appeared at the Ponizovje Warehouse Exterior, during the second, optional battle with the Ocelot Unit. It will appear in one of the three Sokrovenno areas—Sokrovenno South, West, or East. Its starting location varies based on the difficulty of your current game. For example, on Easy or Very Easy, it will be sitting on the large log in Sokrovenno South near Snake's location at the start of the battle.

If Snake catches the parrot alive and releases it during the battle with The End, it will fly to The End and distract him by calling out "grandpa!" repeatedly until he shoos it away. If the parrot is spooked, or if The End shoos it away, it will fly to another predetermined location in one of the three Sokrovenno areas.

If you neither kill it nor keep it alive in your inventory in Sokrovenno, it will appear in Tikhogornyj after the battle with The Sorrow. It will be perched on a branch of a tree facing the right side of the waterfall across the pool. Keep your distance, as it will fly away if spooked, and may not return.

The parrot is one of the food items that must be captured, alive or dead, in order to get the Markhor ranking, if you don't get a better ranking, and/or the EZ Gun, on any difficulty but Very Easy.

If Snake contacts Paramedic after capturing the parrot, she tells him that the parrot is an Alexandrine Parakeet. Afterwards, she lashes out at Snake for even thinking about eating "such a cute little bird" and orders him not to eat it, much to Snake's disappointment.

The Parrot CAN be found after the "The End" battle.

Trivia

 * The End gets angry if you kill his parrot or eat it after tranquilizing it
 * The End's parrot is supposedly the great-great-grandmother of Emma's parrot
 * The parrot appears with The End during the battle with The Sorrow, even if you captured it and kept it alive through the torture scene or simply left it alone after killing The End.