Ingrid Newkirk

Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

British Activist

Justin Chon

I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!

American Actor

Brian Stelter

Trump followed Fox's lead. He parroted what he heard on TV. He lied and lied, but rather than suffer the consequences, his lies were excused and supported and even celebrated by his media enablers.

American Journalist

Joseph Conrad

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Polish Novelist

Mark Twain

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

American Writer

Will Rogers

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Billy Graham

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

American Clergyman

Thomas Carlyle

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Scottish Philosopher

Chevy Chase

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

American Comedian

Jose Aldo

Even parrots talk. I don't care about what they say.

Brazilian Athlete

Parrots come in many types and colors, which can vary by species.

Vibrant Variety

Not all parrots can talk, but those that do often require training.

Mimicry Skill

Parrots are often associated with pirates and tropical locations in media.

Cultural Symbol

To parrot can imply a lack of original thought or understanding.

Negative Connotation

Using 'parrot' implies repeating words mindlessly, without comprehension.

Mindless Repetition

Encourage learners not to parrot phrases; understanding is key to language mastery.

Discourage Learning

 War, and even more so after the Second World War. The plants just took over. and one of those main ones is the Sycamore, just because it's such a fast growing species. Shall we see if we can find some of those parrots, those parakeets, if we can find the parakeets, we might be able to find some of their nest holes.

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 keeps a has a parrot and he loves the opera and he's a great aficionado of of uh medieval history and he uh by profession he's a psychophysicist now i should tell you that i have no idea what um psychophysics is although at some point in my life i dated a girl for two years

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 sound we have yeah I like to imitate them we have parrot fish chipping away at coral their sharp beaks and the base of a humpback whale pretty much perfect pret never hurt see what I mean there's music all over the world and last but not least he has the runic of a hot of

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 That was actually caused by a school of parrot fish that had started eating it, though luckily, they lost interest before killing it. Luckily still, it seems to be out of harm's way of the recent oil spill. But that being said, we just as easily could have lost

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 and he has a parrot, and he loves the opera, and he's a great aficionado of medieval history. And by profession, he's a psychophysicist. Now, I should tell you that I have no idea what psychophysics is, although at some point in my life,

Choice, happiness and...

 here in an umbrella thorn tree in tanzania africa some fishers lovebirds are looking for a nice hollow in which to nest and raise their yacht the lovebird is a small stout member of the parrot family

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 With this specialized anatomy, parrots can bark, scream, curse, and recite factoids. One intrepid lost parrot managed to get back home after repeating his full name and address to helpful strangers.

Why can parrots talk? -...

 there are as few as a thousand left in the wild Steve's team recovers sick parrots and helps nurse them back to health we're very excited actually do that at least not for months Steve's

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 parents should be parents and that means that if they are a pet parrot they have a loving caring home but if they're wild parents that they should be free

Why Are Wild Parrots...

 it's our job to protect the animal an animal now becomes evidence and that evidence is under our care these baby parrots are the lucky ones