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On the internet, no one knows your a parrot.
Posted on 04/28/2023 10:49:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway
On the internet, no one knows your a parrot.
Yep.
These birdies are much too smart to run for public office or to market beer.
After a couple of weeks they were much better at solving sudoku puzzles.
When I first got back from Vietnam, I bought my first conure and he and I bonded immediately. He was however, a severe biter of any adult he considered a threat. My ex-wife used to get along with him, but she would throw his cage (with him in it) down the stairs when she was mad at me - and from then on, he stayed locked in his cage whenever she was home, or he would become a flying pair of pliers going after her.
He was dangerous to stranger, large dogs, cats and his main sport (I would let him fly outside and he would always come home) was diving on cats and dogs and making them yelp. He would never bite kids, or puppies or kittens, no matter what they did to him.
I've got three of them now and they are a hoot - messy, noisy, and chew everything if I don't provide them with toys that they can tear up. At night, I just say "time to go to bed" and they fly back to their cage, get in and wait for me to close the door.
Wow, your ex was messed up.
Now teach them to use the speech recognition microphone button.
Don’t tell Pinky and the Brain about this, they will use the parrots to take over the world.
Feral parrots are all over south Florida. They live a good life.
A west African grey is smarting than any of our elite leaders. Far more honest.
Yeah, I guess anywhere south where the winter doesn’t freeze you solid. And there’s lots of bugs to eat.
Many pet parrots either escape or are let go on the island of Puerto Rico. Warm weather, lots of food, they do very well in the wild. What follows is a list of different parrots now found in Puerto Rico
Fischer’s lovebird
Masked lovebird
Peach-faced lovebirds
Blue-fronted amazon
White-fronted amazon
Orange-winged amazon
Yellow-naped amazon
Cuban amazon
Yellow-crowned amazon
Yellow-headed amazon
Hispaniolan amazon
Greencheeked amazon
Hyacinth macaw
Blue-and-yellow macaw
Red-and-green macaw
Scarlet macaw
Military macaw
Nanday conure
Jandaya conure
Sun conure
White-winged parakeet
White-crested cockatoo
Sulfur-crested cockatoo
Goffin’s corella
Salmon-crested cockatoo
Yellow-crested cockatoo
Orange-fronted conure
Brown-throated conure
Green-rumped parrolet
Budgerigar
Monk parakeet
Cockatiel
Senegal
Red-rumped parrot
Hispaniolan conure
Red-masked conure
Mitred conure
Roseringed parakeet
African grey parrot
Timneh parrot
Sulphur-winged parakeet
Green-cheeked conure
Crimson-bellied conure
Rose-fronted parakeet
Blue-crowned parakeet
Rainbow lorikeet
I read recenly that in some species of birds, a bird that is foraging for food in a group will sometimes give out a phony distress call. The other birds in the same group hearing that call will flitter away, and, for a time, leaving any food that might be found to the one that made the phony distress call.
Wily.
Parrots love mirrors too.
Perfect
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