Ornithologist Joanna Burger provides an account of her complicated, but enriching relationship with Tiko, a Red-lored Amazon parrot she has lived with for fifteen years.
Bernie Bridges's pet parrot, Lippy, has always brought him good luck, so Bernie puts up with Lippy's bad attitude and rudeness, but when Lippy turns into a bad-luck bird, Bernie gives him to his archrival.
Mr. Ruche finds himself involved in a bizarre series of events when he inherits a vast mathematical library from a long-lost friend in the Amazon and the little boy whose family Mr. Ruche lives with discovers a parrot with an astounding knowledge of math.
Provides information about parrots through an imaginative look at what children could do if they had feet, beaks, voices, and behaviors like the colorful birds. Includes parrot facts and activities.
Caring for Ivy's talking parrot while she is on vacation, Julie rapidly discovers that an old friend has been hiding secrets that might be causing strange occurrences at Ivy's house, in a tale inspired by the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill and the vegetarianism movement of the 1970s.
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.
