COMPANION PARROT QUARTERLY ISSUE #71 
Winter 2007  70 pages 
Cover Art by Sally Blanchard

PLEA FOR PATIENCE AND ASSISTANCE By Sally Blanchard

STUFF YOUR PARROT WANTS YOU TO KNOW 
    Basics of Bathing and Showering By Sally Blanchard

MY EXPERIENCES WITH COCKATOOS:
Part II What Cockatoos Have Taught Me Over the Last Thirty Years By Sally Blanchard

THE BEHAVIOR OF WILD AMAZON PARROTS
Its Implications for Companion Parrot Keepers By Jesse Zgurski

CANDLES ON A CHRISTMAS TREE The Story of Our Lost Parrot By Jill Hedgecock

NURTURING GUIDANCE: 
    KIDS AND PARROTS There are Many Similarities in Raising Parrots and Kids    
    By Melissa Meadows

COCKATOO HEAVEN A Visit to Kakadu National Park in Australia By Gemma Dehnebostel

MEYER’S PARROT PROJECT IN BOTSWANA 
    The First Studies of the Meyer’s Parrot in the Wild By Steve Boyes

THE FUN PAGE
If Parrots Had People For Pets
Recipe: Spicy Sweet Potato Pancakes
The Macaw Petroglyph and the Trade in Macaws
COLOR CENTERFOLD Sally Blanchard’s "Tongue-in-Beak" Clayworks and Parrot Drawings

FRIENDS OF THE HYACINTH MACAW 
    By Shari Beaudoin, Sally Blanchard, Chris Curtis, Kashmir Csaky, Melissa
     Meadows, and Cheryl Weibeler

SOCIAL SECURITY 
    Understanding Why Parrots Need the Social Security of their Human Flock Sally Blanchard

TWO DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES Two Poems about Caged Birds Jolen Casper and Jody Kuchar

WELCOME TO THE BIRD HOUSE A Tale of Three Cockatiels By Laura Ainsworth

FREE FLIGHT AT COCKATOO DOWNS By Chris Shank

TRAVELS AND THOUGHTS By Sally Blanchard

Parrot Product Reviews By Sally Blanchard
Letters to the Editor
THE BACK PAGE
Wild Bird Page: The Best Mimic?
Double-headed YellowAmazon
Ariel’s First Flight