I received Rebecca’s book, A Parrot For Life as a prize for the best story about how my birds got their names. You can see it at Rebecca’s Blog, “Heckled by Parrots”. http://heckledbyparrots.com/blog/2009/02/and-the-winners-are/ It’s a pretty good story about how my Foster Grey Nyla decided that her name isn’t Nyla. And Rebecca has a [...]
Archive for March, 2009
My Major Award From Rebecca K. O’Connor At “Heckled By Parrots”!
Posted in essays and articles, People in Aviculture, Uncategorized on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For My Friends at the Cincinnati Zoo Bird House
Posted in Cincinnati Zoo, Uncategorized, tagged Bird Blogs, blogging about parrots, Manakin, Parrot Blog, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, Snowball the dancing cockatoo on March 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Hi Guys, I hope you are having a good lunch…I understand you’re having burritos today courtesy of the “Big Kahoona”, Steve Malowski. Well, enjoy your burritos and in honor of such a festive oocasion, I have posted a video for your lunch entertainment. May I present “Snowball, the Dancing Cockatoo” and “The Moonwalking Manakin”. I’m [...]
Frosty Shakes His Tail Feathers to Ray Charles
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged behavior training, Bird Talk Writer, blogging about parrots, dancing bird, essays and articles, Frosty the dancing bird, Parrot Nation, parrot training, parrots, Patricia Sund, Positive reinforcement training on March 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Now I’ve seen some dancing birds before, but this little guy rocks out! Frosty is going viral on the Internet! This little guy is terrific!
Tidying up “Parrot Nation”
Posted in essays and articles, People in Aviculture, Uncategorized, tagged Bird Talk Magazine, Bird Talk Writer, birds, blogging about parrots, essays and articles, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, Writing on March 15, 2009 | 11 Comments »
For the most part I don’t write my Blog on paper and then transfer it to my laptop, but when I get a good idea, I will write it down in a notebook I keep in my purse for the times I am away from my laptop. I spend an inordinate amount of time on [...]
“BIRD TALK” Magazine: Home of “Memo to Parker and Pepper”
Posted in essays and articles, Uncategorized, tagged African Grey, African Grey Babies, African Greys, Bird Talk Magazine, Bird Talk Writer, birds, blogging about parrots, essays and articles, Memo to Parker and Pepper, Parrot Nation, parrot training, parrots, Patricia Sund on March 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
(photo credit: Kent Hammit) This is the photo used in my column in “Bird Talk” Magazine. The column, titled “Memo to Parker and Pepper” has now gone monthly according to an email from a “Parrot Nation” reader. This makes me very happy as I happen to like the “Memo” series and I also happen to [...]
Keeping My Pen to the Paper…(or fingers to the keyboard)
Posted in essays and articles, People in Aviculture, tagged African Grey, Bird Talk Writer, blogging about parrots, essays and articles, Parker the Grey, Parrot Nation, parrots, Patricia Sund on March 11, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I was messing around on Facebook, trying to wrangle a couple of good ideas for “Parrot Nation” and for the Column I write for in “Bird Talk Magazine” called “Memos to Parker and Pepper”. Sometimes something as simple as someone describing what they are doing at that moment is enough for me to come up [...]
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