yes we can yes we can yes we can yes we can

For Tlazolteotl and flock:

Friday psittacine blogging

Forgot to post this earlier.

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Friday psittacine blogging: shadows and light

Friday pains-in-the-ass blogging

Above, “Why can’t I eat the bird?” Below, “Why can’t I eat this delicious lead-base paint?”

Death of a wild parrot

Edgewater, New Jersey is home to a boisterous flock of wild Quaker parrots.  Unfortunately, for those birds and their human neighbors, it’s also the site of some of the worst industrial poisoning in the United States.
A heartbreaking story and warning from the wonderful BrooklynParrots.com:
The poisons that we place in our world will last for [...]

Making myself walk the plank as I speak…

Aaaargh.
Beratin’ meself fer fergitting the approach of Talk Like a Pirate Day and failing to adequately prepare for the occasion, I am.
Allow me an extemporaneous exploration.  As one who lives with a psittacine, I believe, like most of my ilk, that much about pirates — from the eyepatch to the Arrrrrrrgghh — can be explained.
If [...]

RIP Alex

Alex, the African Grey parrot studied by by researcher Irene Pepperberg, died September 6 at the age of 31.  It’s not an exaggeration to say that Pepperberg’s work with Alex completely changed the scope of information known about the avian brain and parrots in general.
Dr. Pepperberg’s pioneering research resulted in Alex learning elements of English [...]

jeebs

“a thousand blended notes”

© Copyright Stephen C. Baldwin 2005-2007
From a wonderful post over at BrooklynParrots. Spring comes to Green-Wood Cemetery.

Friday green bird photo-blogging