February 2010

Editor's Note
After a particularly hectic morning — one in which my conure dumped all the food out of his bowl in protest of the diced broccoli, and the ’tiel fluttered about the living room, as if lost but really just extending his fly-about time, again — I arrived in the office with my feathers a bit ruffled. Read more here.

The Shoulder Perch
Before you let your parrot go there, read this!
BY LAURA DOERING

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Discover the feeding & breeding biology of the endangered Cape parrot.
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Go Nuts!
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BY RITA GROSZMANN

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