parrots

"Janie asks Hank to watch her parrot Pete. Hank feels like a pirate! But Pete talks too much. And can Hank keep up with the mess?"--Amazon.com.

Alastair the African grey parrot is adopted by elderly dance-enthusiast and pie-baker Albertina Plopky and his sister, Aggie, by twelve-year-old Fritz, spoiling his plans to fly away with Aggie. Told in Alastair, Albertina, and Fritz's voices.

"Piper and Percy get a parrot for a pet. They try to get it to talk, but it's a very quiet parrot. They try to teach her to talk. They even offer her a pancake, but the bird still has nothing to say! When Percy is practicing piano, the parrot begins to sing. Their parrot loves music!"--Provided by publisher.

Nothing seems to go right for Eugene, even when he wins a free trip to Bermuda, but while he is stranded on a tiny, deserted island after being shipwrecked, a broken-winged parrot tells him how to build a boat so that they can both be rescued.

Pablo, nearly ten, has many questions about his origins and how he arrived at Isla as a baby, but finding the answers may mean losing his lifetime companion, Birdy the parrot.

A basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of parrots, a family of colorful birds. Also included is a story from folklore explaining why parrots can imitate speech.

Photographs and simple text share facts and information about parrots, describing their physical characteristics, diet, habitat, and related topics.

"Harold is an amazing mimic, and can imitate the sound of everything in his home. Tired of repeating the same old noises, he yearns to find out what other voices there are in the big, wide world, but what happens when he suddenly realizes that he doesn't yet have a voice of his own?"--Back cover.

Learn about how to care for pet parakeets, including what they eat and what they need to stay healthy.

Surveys the natural history of roughly 350 species of wild parrots, and discusses their perceptual and cognitive abilities, foraging patterns, diet, and mating and social behavior. Also examines their conservation status, parrots as invasive species, and the future of wild parrots.