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"The Language of Birds" Archived May 8, 2023, at the Wayback Machine article includes a transcript and audio sample Archived March 29, 2023, at the Wayback Machine of Alex "Alex (parrot), on season 12, episode 1". Scientific American Frontiers. Chedd-Angier Production Company. 2001–2002. PBS. Archived from the original on January 1, 2006.
The white-crested laughingthrush is a member of the family Leiothrichidae, recently split from the Old World babbler family, Timaliidae. [2] [3] Its scientific name Garrulax leucolophus comes from Latin garrire "to chatter", in reference to its very vocal nature, and from Greek leukós "white" and lophos "crest".
A salmon-crested cockatoo, showing signs of feather-plucking on its chest. Feather-plucking, sometimes termed feather-picking, feather damaging behaviour or pterotillomania, [1] is a maladaptive, behavioural disorder commonly seen in captive birds that chew, bite or pluck their own feathers with their beak, resulting in damage to the feathers and occasionally the skin.
Rosemary Low is a British aviculturist, ornithologist, conservationist, writer and expert on parrots. Low started her career as a writer for the magazine, Cage and Aviary Birds . At that time, she and her husband had a collection of about 50 parrots.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is a 2003 documentary film directed, produced, and edited by Judy Irving. It chronicles the relationship between Mark Bittner , an unemployed musician who lives rent-free in a cabin in the Telegraph Hill -neighborhood of San Francisco , and a flock of feral parrots that he feeds and looks after.
When preening, a bird (such as this red lory) draws individual feathers through its beak, realigning and re-interlocking the barbules.. Preening is a maintenance behaviour found in birds that involves the use of the beak to position feathers, interlock feather barbules that have become separated, clean plumage, and keep ectoparasites in check.
The chattering lory (Lorius garrulus) is a forest-dwelling parrot endemic to North Maluku, Indonesia. It is considered vulnerable, the main threat being from trapping for the cage-bird trade. The race L. g. flavopalliatus is known as the yellow-backed lory.
The kākāpō (Māori: [kaːkaːpɔː]; [3] pl.: kākāpō; Strigops habroptilus), sometimes known as the owl parrot or owl-faced parrot, is a species of large, nocturnal, ground-dwelling parrot of the superfamily Strigopoidea. It is endemic to New Zealand. [4] Kākāpō can be up to 64 cm (25 in) long.