Owner Irwin Wantman, who reported Punky and an eclectus parrot named Angel missing last Thursday, said another parrot fancier called him this morning after The Advertiser published a story about the missing birds.

Wantman said the other bird man told him he had paid another man $100 for the bird, which Wantman says is worth $2,000.

The eclectus remains missing.

Known for working the streets in Waikiki, the birds were last seen on a video surveillance tape leaving the Scandia Towers condominium on Kapahulu Avenue on Thursday with a middle-aged woman and a young, well-dressed man.

Irwin "Chuck" Wantman shows off his macaw Peter. He says one of his parrots is still missing. Eughene Tanner • The Honolulu Advertiser

"I dream that maybe Punky has been drowned," he said earlier before the bird's recovery. "He's my very own most precious pet."

Punky and Angel are parrots — a green-winged macaw and a cute little red eclectus from the South Pacific, worth about $2,000 and $600, respectively.

Punky's the punk rocker, because he rocks back and forth on his perch. God knows how Angel got her name.

Wantman, a player in Hawai'i's lucrative parrot picture business, says independent pitchmen who sell photos of his birds on tourists' shoulders split as much as $200 to $300 a day with him.

He spent $100 at Kinko's yesterday making fliers offering a reward for the return of his birds.

Anyone with information on the still missing bird is asked to call 922-4521.

Wantman believes Punky, Angel and four other parrots were taken by a cleaning woman. The others were caught that day flying around Honolulu Zoo.

They are Mary and Caesar, two little Sun Conures worth about $350 each; Tuxedo the $1,000 African Gray; and a blue and gold $1,000 Macaw named Peter.

Reach Walter Wright at wwright@honoluluadvertiser.com or 525-8054.