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