Lego Parrot and Mountable Perch with Lego Stud - Lego Wreath

With mine and my girlfriend's Lego Wreath, we have had it up since the beginning of the year. Since then, we have made it our goal to decorate it with different colors and/or items that are compatible with the wreath for different seasons, holidays, and occasions.

With Memorial Day coming up, we wanted to do something unique, and patriotic. We wanted to add an Eagle (or any bird found in Lego that is close to an eagle) to our wreath. That's where this design came from!

The perch itself was custom made. The diameter of the stud female connectors are 30.15mm to best accomodate variance in different stud models. It fits the branch stud pieces pretty well. The stud male connector is at 30.05mm. In my experience, this gives it just the right amount of clearance where it's not too snug but not too loose with connections.

I printed the parrot in SUNLU Silk Gold PLA and the perch in ELEGOO Green PLA. Use your normal printer settings, but I do suggest 5-15% infill. Everything fit pretty well! I also suggest printing with supports. The beak needs support (eyes printed fine without them), connector slots could probably survive without them but I used supports anyways, and the perch definitely needs supports for the bottom female connector and the vertical female connector ports.

There is also a complete model of the parrot included in this post. Some people might want to modify it themselves, do other things with it, etc. So I wanted to make that easier for those of you looking to customize it further! Same with the perch. I included a version that doesn't have the cutout in case someone wants to use this for a different application.

I thought this would be a fun and silly idea that could grow into something bigger. If anyone wants my source FreeCAD files, I'd be happy to share! I will also take some requests if anyone has one.

Hope you enjoy this print! It was fun to make.