Coming Up For Air

Mattie and me at the Petco Festival
I’m back. Back to the blog once again! My apologies for having left it untouched for so long, but I had a lot of catching up to do. As you might recall, I spent three weeks working at the Cincinnati Zoo. (Here is their Kookaburra):

While [...]

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Long Island, Here I Come!

                                           The LIPS Expo Link: http://www.liparrotsociety.org/parrotexpo.htm
LIPS is having me come and speak on October third at their Parrot Expo on October third. This should be interesting. This year’s theme is “Parrots, The Reality Show.” I [...]

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I’m Getting a Tiffin and Taking it on the Road

Have you ever heard of a “Tiffin?” I knew what they were, but until recently I didn’t know what they were called.
These are Tiffins:

According to Wikipedia this is the definition and derivation of the word “Tiffin”:
Tiffin is lunch, or any light meal. It originated in British India and is today found primarily in Indian English. The word originated [...]

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Frosty Shakes His Tail Feathers to Ray Charles

Now I’ve seen some dancing birds before, but this little guy rocks out! Frosty is going viral on the Internet!
      
 
This little guy is terrific!

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Tidying up “Parrot Nation”

For the most part I don’t write my Blog on paper and then transfer it to my laptop, but when I get a good idea, I will write it down in a notebook I keep in my purse for the times I am away from my laptop. I spend an inordinate amount of time on [...]

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“BIRD TALK” Magazine: Home of “Memo to Parker and Pepper”

(photo credit: Kent Hammit)
This is the photo used in my column in “Bird Talk” Magazine. The column, titled “Memo to Parker and Pepper” has now gone monthly according to an email from a “Parrot Nation” reader. This makes me very happy as I happen to like the “Memo” series and I also happen to like [...]

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Keeping My Pen to the Paper…(or fingers to the keyboard)

I was messing around on Facebook, trying to wrangle a couple of good ideas for “Parrot Nation” and for the Column I write for in “Bird Talk Magazine” called “Memos to Parker and Pepper”. Sometimes something as simple as someone describing what they are doing at that moment is enough for me to come up [...]

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When Are You Ever Done?

(Katherine Thorpe of the Animal Educational Foundation Training Palmer the Palm Cockatoo)
(Photo courtesy Steve Martin of NEI Inc.)

When are you done? It’s a simple question, really. When it comes to birds, I guess you aren’t ever really “done”. There is always another behavior to train, another cage to clean, another beak to feed, and another [...]

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Facebook. An Incredible Phenomenon…

I’d heard of Facebook but didn’t quite know what to think. I joined Facebook sometime in January from an invitation sent to me from a cyber friend. This cyber-friend actually has the same last name as me and had been searching for family members. Turn out we aren’t related, but decided we’d be “cousins” anyway. [...]

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Parrot Food For Thought

I just made a fresh batch of food for the Greys. I’m sorry the photo isn’t better, but if I had dragged out my camera and then dragged out everything to upload it, I never would have shot it, so I just used the camera on the computer instead. But I think you have the idea.
 I [...]

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