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Monthly Archives: December 2008

Parrot with A Cool Job

December 18, 2008 – 7:56 am

Little boys all over the world want to grow up to be magicians. Maybe they need to take lessons from Luigi “the psychic parrot” He’s the most famous parrot in the world of magic. From the OC Register: HOLLYWOOD It is a packed house in the Palace of Mystery at Hollywood’s Magic Castle – the [...]

By rebecca •• Posted in Entertaining a Bird Brain •• Comments (0)

Bizarre Budgie Bred for Frills

December 17, 2008 – 7:00 am

Parakeets have arguably been bred for so many specific traits that they could be considered domestic. Unlike most parrots, which are only four or five generations removed from the wild at most (although many of our parrots would be considered First Filial generations -F1) parakeets have been in captivity for a very long time, bred for behavior [...]

By rebecca •• Posted in Avian Antics, Birdie Basics •• Comments (1)

2009 Birds USA

December 15, 2008 – 1:30 pm

This year’s Birds USA from the publishers of Bird Talk has some great articles in it. Barbara Heidenreich has an article on body posture. If you don’t read her Good Bird Magazine, you really should! And you should definitely buy her new video on body language. There are many things about parrots that are much [...]

By rebecca •• Posted in Do your homework •• Comments (1)

Parrot Dubbed “Santa Hater”

December 14, 2008 – 1:43 pm

Maybe Santa failed to get this parrot what he wanted fro Christmas last year. After all, parrots can’t write. This article from SohoToday.com claims that all parrots hate Santa. I find this to be quite unfair. I’m pretty sure my Senegal Loki would find Santa’s beard quite cozy. And if I spent some time desensitizing [...]

By rebecca •• Posted in Avian Antics, Oh Behave •• Comments (2)

Meet Ty

December 10, 2008 – 9:56 pm

Ty is my African grey parrot compadre. He’s been with me since he was six weeks-old and now he’s 13 years old. In a lot of ways we’ve grown up together. He’s moved with me from California to Florida when I got my first job training animals for a company that was working on setting up the [...]

By rebecca •• Posted in Personal Parronting, Tuesdays with Ty •• Comments (2)

Is that a Parrot in Your Pants…

December 8, 2008 – 1:09 pm

..or are you just happy to…  oh never mind. Check out this bizarre story of parrot thievery. Hope that conure bit him where it hurts!

By rebecca •• Posted in Avian Antics •• Comments (0)

Birds and Words

December 5, 2008 – 11:56 am

Welcome to Heckled by Parrots, the blog. Here I hope you will find some great resources to get the information you are looking for regarding the pet parrots in your home. Some of you may have met me at lectures, in home consults, workshops or maybe you’ve read my book, “A Parrot for Life.” Hopefully, a [...]

By rebecca •• Posted in Squawkin' •• Comments (3)