Corene Fry was born in California and raised and schooled most of her life in England. From a very early age she had a keen interest in birds and was always rescuing injured wild birds that had fallen from their nests. "I remember it was always budgies, and canaries and the latest hurt wild critter in my bedroom. I never really understood the bunny or gerbil 'thing' my other friends were into, it was only birds for me."

Later in life, still tagged with the "Bird Lady" label, she brought home Baby, her first big bird, a Triton Cockatoo, who is still her companion today. "He really is the catalyst for the work I do with birds today. For the last 10 years he has been my tutor, my study and my inspiration."

After moving back to the USA, Corene worked as an animal trainer at Universal Studios' Animal Planet Live show in Orlando. She gained a wealth of experience training and working with a wide range of animals, from show performance dogs and pigs to chimpanzees, but "feather power" once again drew her towards working primarily with the trick parrots and the show's pigeons.

The Animal Planet Live show gave Corene a great insight into the many aspects of animal behavior and training, but her passion to improve parrot welfare by educating people about the complexities of parrot ownership has become her main focus.

Corene has used her instinctual gifts with parrots to work with many pet bird owners to resolve problems of biting, feather picking and screaming birds, and has saved many birds from being "out of a home" and even euthanized.