Owner Rachel Mills feared she may have lost Bazil the Alexandrine parrot forever when he flew away from his Firgrove home about lunchtime on Sunday.

Her distraught family searched surrounding streets and used social media and a letterbox drop to appeal for information about Bazil's whereabouts.

After two sleepless nights Ms Mills was overjoyed to hear her little escapee had landed in a yard about a kilometre to the east of where she lived.

"I actually know Denise Powning, who lives there, and she was aware Bazil was missing, so when he dropped on their back lawn she and her two girls got him and gave him a drink and looked after him until I got there," she said.

"As soon as I saw him I said, 'Oh Bazil!' and he made a noise and there was a lot of crying - I was so relieved.

"I told Bazil we were going home to cut off that one feather I had missed that he had used to fly away when a gust of wind picked him up the other day."

An exhausted and very hungry Bazil had "inhaled birdseed" and mostly slept since his return, Ms Mills said.

A grateful Ms Mills had since taken a bunch of flowers to Bazil's rescuers.

"I had received so many texts from lovely people who were so concerned and asking if I'd got him back, it's a really happy ending," she said.