When mischievous nine-year-old Calliope Day talks her rich new friend into bringing Captain Tweakerbeak the parrot to school for a prank, the results are so hilarious Calliope decides to keep the bird for herself.
The Smiths, a couple living in a luxury, high-rise apartment, try to figure out how to help when their parrot, missing the trees, sun, and other parrots of Puerto Rico, his homeland, expresses his sadness by plucking his colorful feathers.
A practical guide to caring for parakeets that covers purchasing, cages and maintenance, food, health care and diseases, behavior, toys, talking, and breeding, and includes a section on wild parakeets in Australia.
Simple text and full-color photographs provide information about parrots, covering what they eat and look like, how they behave, and the noise they make.
Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, diet, and life cycle of the parrot and explains how zoos care for them and try to provide environments for them similar to the wild.
