The Chop Blog

Well, I told you I’d be calling this the “Chop Blog” if the hits and questions kept coming! I asked some of my Readers if they would be so kind to send me some of their photos and thoughts on their version of “Chop”, as well as how it’s going over for their birds. In [...]

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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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“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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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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The Parrot Festival: A Scarf-a-Palooza

I just got back from the Houston Parrot Festival put on by the NPRPF, which is the “National Parrot Rescue and Preservation Foundation”; a mouthful in and of itself. I got back on Monday and I’m still beat. It’s a high-energy, fun get-together for Parrot Freaks all over the Country and this is how the [...]

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Zoo Work Thursday 9-04-08

This is the Intern House right across the street from the zoo. My room is the center 2 windows with the fire escape on the 2nd floor. How very “Mary Tyler Moore”!
9-04-08
6 a.m. get up. Quick shower; no time for coffee. Jenna from The Aquarium of the Pacific has been working with me and is [...]

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The Arrival of “Nyla”

7.23.08
Nyla is coming. As a matter of fact, she’s on her way right now, cage and all. I’ve spent all morning and half of the afternoon moving furniture, tidying up and shoving junk around so that there will be room for her “room”. Nyla is a 5 year-old Congo Grey who, just like Pepper my [...]

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An Incredible Opportunity in Penguin Poop

                                           
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Communing with an East African Crowned Crane 

Photo: Steve Martin-Natural Encounters, Inc.

 
I just received some wonderful news. I have been granted an internship at the Cincinnati Zoo. I leave in September during my vacation from my [...]

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Parrots: The New Trendy Companion?

Parrots: The New Trendy Companion?
By Patricia Sund
 
Oh! I want one! I want one!
 If I’ve heard this once I’ve heard it a hundred times. People get a load of Parker, my African Grey, and they lose all sense of the practical.  And I’m always thinking this:
Oh, no you don’t!  You don’t want “A Parrot” You want [...]

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