Officers at Seattle Animal Shelter have rescued 110 parakeets that were apparently caught and confined in one huge cage by a man and kept in the living room of his one-bedroom apartment home. The discovery was made Tuesday after a law enforcement officer with the Seattle Humane Society conducted a welfare check at the apartment following several complaints of noisy birds by the neighbors.

Neil Deruyter, an animal control officer with the society described the man in his 50s and said that he had been collecting the birds for about five years, according to Seattlepi.com reports.

"You could hear the noise from the street," he said, without disclosing further identity of the man.

Seattle Animal Shelter Executive Director Don Jordan said it will not pursue animal-cruelty charges against the owner for his cooperation, the Seattlepi.com reports.

The birds have been put up for adoption.