It might've been the java version or something, but when taking a tamed Parrot back to base, it would not teleport to me if I was far enough and I would have to wait for it to fly over.
It died in three hours of escort. 😞 (Accidentally killed it whilst fighting mobs.)
Environment
HP Laptop 15-da0xx
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250u CPU @ 1.60 GHz-1.80 GHz (Avg. 3.10 GHz)
4GB DDR4 SDRAM
16GB Intel(R) Optane(TM) Memory.
1TB SDD Storage (w/ additional 1TB HDD External)
Java Version: 1.8.0_221
Thank you for your report!
We're actually already tracking this issue in MC-157494, so I resolved and linked this ticket as a duplicate.
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