A baby parrot needs discipline as, much like a human toddler, they do get into anything and everything.
A human figure with pearl chain and arrows in left hand, and parrot on a wooden stick in the right.
A large number of forms learn in captivity to talk and whistle, the well-known red-tailed grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) of tropical Africa being pre-eminent.
A parrot on the shoulder never goes amiss.
A parrot wine holder is a way to add a bit of whimsy to your wine accessory collection.
Acquiring a young hand-reared parrot should not be considered by a person or a couple who are out at work all day.
Although you may like the way a parrot looks and sounds, you have to ask yourself whether or not you will be willing to take care of a bird of that size.
Among the Amazon species may be mentioned the parrot, macaw (Macrocercus), toucan (Ramphastos), curassow (Crax), penelope, trogon, and horned screamer (Palamedea cornuta).
Among the birds of the island are the eagle, hawk, petrel, owl, finch, peewit, diamond bird, fire-tail, robin, emu-wren, crow, swallow, magpie, blackcap, goatsucker, quail, ground dove, parrot, lark, mountain thrush, cuckoo, wattlebird, whistling duck, honeybird, Cape Barren goose, penguin duck, waterhen, snipe, albatross and laughing jackass.
Among the birds prized for their plumage are the marabout, crane, heron, blackbird, parrot, jay and humming-birds of extraordinary brilliance.
Aristotle is commonly supposed to be the first author who mentions a parrot; but this is an error, for nearly a century earlier Ctesias in his Indica (cap. 3),2 under the name of fib-Taws (Bittacus), so neatly described a bird which could speak an "Indian" language - naturally, as he seems to have thought - or Greek - if it had been taught so to do - about as big as a sparrow-hawk (Hierax), with a purple face and a black beard, otherwise blue-green (cyaneus) and vermilion in colour, so that there cannot be much risk in declaring that he must have had before him a male example of what is now commonly known as the Blossom-headed parakeet, and to ornithologists as Palaeornis cyanocephalus, an inhabitant of many parts of India.
At the online store of the Parrot Canvas Company, you have the option of monogramming your tote.
Birds of prey are few; the parrot and pigeon tribes are better represented.
Blackbirds and thrushes are not found, nor any species of parrot, but on the other hand, we have the hoopoe (yatsugashira), the red-breast (komadori), the bluebird (run), the wren (miso-sazai), the golden-crested wren (itadaki), the golden-eagle (inu-washi), the finch (hiwa), the longtailed rosefinch (benimashiko), the ouzelbrown (akahara), dusky (tsugumi) and water (kawa-garasu)the kingfisher (kawasems), the crake (kuina) and the tomtit (kara).
Brian Rix plays a Brighton antique dealer with a talking parrot whom he believes is the reincarnation of his dead partner Ronald Shiner.
Busy Beaks - This store offers a cute set of parrot coasters to go along with your wine bottle holder.
But all of this is topped by the person who trained their parrot to sing the song, including the trademark grunt.
Calypso Parrot - This store also offers two lovely wine holders.
Captain's Cove - This store offers two wine holders of the parrot variety (Macaws to be exact).
Coasters - Parrot coasters are perfect for setting a glass of white wine down upon on a hot summer day.
Cockatiels and the lovebirds are both members of the parrot family.
Contact calls Many parrot species live in large flocks and most parrot species form strong pair bonds between two individuals.
Day 2 Napo Early morning wake-up call to visit one of the best parrot clay licks in Ecuador.
Depending on your personality, you can opt to go for something way out there and novel like a beach towel in the shape of a bucket with a parrot inside.
Display a parrot by putting a rainforest scene in the back of a shadowbox and making some exotic origami flowers for added decoration.
Don't forget the stuffed parrot or Jolly Roger flag!
Elaborate costumes can include a faux parrot on the shoulder or a hook for a hand.
Ellis has an African Gray parrot called filthy Lucre.
Especially as I taught my parrot to play tiddlywinks.
For a fun end to the pirate party games you've organized, let the kids take turns hitting a treat-filled piñata in the shape of a parrot or ship.
For whatever reason you simply must have a parrot wine bottle holder.
Fortunately they had just relocated the birds about 100 meters away sitting in a dead tree, what a little stunner this parrot is.
Freshficld, Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan (1869); Parrot, Reise zum Ararat (1834); Wagner, Reise nach dem Ararat (1848); Abich, Die Besteigung des Ararat (1849); articles "Ararat," in Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible, and the Encyclopaedia Biblica.
Having seen the less than satisfactory second half of the game, they must be as sick as the proverbial parrot.
He never kept still, and could twitter away in all sorts of languages, just like a clever parrot.
How often has one heard some one say " I`ve allways wanted a parrot!
I am well known enough in poultry circles and in parrot circles too since I did parrot rescue for many years until recent years.
I saw some pale blue parrot fish and red squirrel fish with their V-shaped tail fins, each about fourteen inches long.
I would like to feel a parrot talk, it would be so much fun! but I would be pleased with, and love any little creature you send me.
Instead, Parrot focuses its attention on other types of cell phone hands-free devices.
Instead, the Parrot Bluetooth kit for motorcycles places the speaker inside the motorcycle helmet and the microphone is placed much closer to the rider's mouth, not unlike a telemarketer's headset.
Interestingly, there do not appear to be any Parrot Bluetooth headsets being offered at the time this article was written.
It is a story, in itself exceedingly humorous, showing how a parrot, the delight of a convent, whose talk was all of prayers and pious ejaculations, was conveyed to another convent as a visitor to please the nuns.
It is said that no representation of any parrot appears in Egyptian art, nor does any reference to a bird of the kind occur in the Bible, whence it has been concluded that neither painters nor writers had any knowledge of it.
It was long believed by the Armenian monks that no one was permitted to reach the "secret top" of Ararat with its sacred remains, but on the 27th of September 1829, Dr. Johann Jacob Parrot (1792-1840) of Dorpat, a German in the employment of Russia, set foot on the "dome of eternal ice."
Man shares with the mammalia and birds the direct expression of the feelings by emotional tones and interjectional cries; the parrot's power of articulate utterance almost equals his own; and, by association of ideas in some measure, some of the lower animals have even learnt to recognize words he utters.
Marat never ceased his denunciations of the "faction des hommes d'Etat," by which France was being betrayed to her ruin, and his parrot cry of "Nous sommes trahis 1" was re-echoed from group to group in the streets of Paris.
Merlin the African gray parrot has gone missing from his home in Stevenage.
No parrot has recently inhabited the Palaearctic Region,' and but one (the Conurus carolinensis, just mentioned) probably belongs to the Nearctic; nor are parrots represented by many different forms in either the Ethiopian or the Indian Regions.
Not to be confused with the talking bird of the same name, Parrot Bluetooth products allow you to have cell phone conversations without having to hold your mobile phone up to your ear.
Now, one thing should be mentioned, if you are a self-described Jimmy Buffet "Parrothead", (and there are no doubt a ton of you out there), a parrot wine holder is for sure a must have for your wine accessories collection.
Only this lone King parrot mocks and plays the jester.
Outside the forest country the weka, an almost wingless bird, is numerous, and in the Alps a hawk-like green parrot, the kea, has learned to kill sheep and holds its ground.
Parrot CK3100 Bluetooth Car kit The Parrot Bluetooth CK3100 Car Kit is one of the most advanced handsfree car kits on the market.
Parrot has Bluetooth car stereos that take advantage of this phenomenon, wirelessly connecting to the Bluetooth-equipped music phones.
Parroting is the term that psychologists use to describe the process of taking the time, when you are in the middle of a disagreement, to say, or to parrot back, exactly what the other person has said.
She was still shaking with laughter and wiping away the tears as the parrot delivered its message.
Taken as a whole, I was neither over the moon, nor sick as a parrot.
Taking care of drivers on two wheels as well as four wheels, Parrot also has a Bluetooth kit designed specifically for use with motorcycles and other similar modes of transportation.
The birds are more West African than the mammals, and include the grey parrot, all the genera of the splendidly-coloured turacoes, the unique " whale-headed stork," and the ostrich.
The climbers comprise a large number of species, some of which, like those of the parrot (Psittacidae) and woodpecker (Picus), are particularly noticeable in every wooded region of the country.
The drawing room had crystal cylinder vases strategically placed all around, filled with large parrot tulips of every shade.
The FurReal Friends Parrot is especially popular this year.
The great auk, once common on the British coasts, those of Denmark, the east coast of North America, then restricted to those of Newfoundland, Greenland and Iceland, has been killed by man, and the same fate has overtaken the Labrador duck, the Phillip Island parrot, Nestor productus, and the large cormorant of FIG.
The green-eyed monster will be in the shape of Peter Taylor's devoted gray parrot, Merlin.
The Parrot Conference is designed for use in board meetings and other applications where multiple parties may be involved.
The parrot tribe form one of the most pre-eminently tropical groups of birds, only a few species extending into the warmer temperate regions; yet even the most exclusively tropical genera are by no means delicate birds as regards climate.
The parrot tribe is the most remarkable for beauty.
The Red faced Parrot finch is a little green finch with a red face and a very popular finch in a mixed collection.
Then he tamed a parrot and some goats.
There are many dangers associated with using a cell phone while driving and that's partly where there is a family of Parrot Bluetooth hands-free car kits.
There can be no doubt that the Indian conquests of Alexander were the means of making the parrot better known in Europe, and it is in reference to this fact that another Eastern species of Palaeornis now bears the name of P. alexandri, though from the localities it inhabits it could hardly have had anything to do with the Macedonian hero.
They should not learn the material " parrot fashion " .
This chic tankini set, with its vibrant parrot green color and white "bamboo" pattern, will certainly put you in vacation mode!
This Parrot Bluetooth product does not require any professional installation of any kind.
Thus, by the end of his seventeenth year his apprenticeship of study was There is, however, one true nest-building parrot, the greybreasted parrakeet (Myopsittacus monachus), which constructs a huge nest of twigs.
Tiny Shiny has instructions for a crane, box, parrot, pinwheel, and other simple projects for origami beginners.
To all intents and purposes, the Labor Party is a dead parrot.
Under certain circumstances, however, the native animals may recover, for in some cases they even profit by man's advent, and at times themselves become pests, like the Kea parrot (Nestor notabilis), which attacks sheep in New Zealand, and the bobolink or rice-bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) in North America.
Unlike manufacturers such as Nokia and Motorola, Parrot focuses exclusively on cell phone accessories rather than on the mobile handsets themselves.
Watching our antics all the time was the mess's pet parrot Jasper who had his aviary on the lawn.
Well, in a previous incarnation, some of us used to work in Shalford, near a pub called " The Parrot " .
Whether you are into the birds or not, a parrot wine holder is definitely a fun piece to have in your wine accessory repertoire and will certainly get people talking.
Why not get both and get a whole parrot theme going?
Wild birds are not very common; among them are the hawk, parrot, owl, woodpecker, kingfisher, green pigeon, African magpie, the honey-sucker and canary.
Wine glass charms - It is much easier to keep track of which wine glass belongs to which guest with some cute parrot wine glass charms.