(Well, I thought it was a great shot…) The Houston Parrot Festival: What an amazing Festival! A great speaker line up, combined with an incredible array of products from some cutting edge vendors offering the best products made this year’s festival a joy. And it was terrific, once I got there. And I’ll be posting [...]
Archive for January, 2010
My “Rock Star Moment” Meltdown
Posted in Bird Talk Magazine, essays and articles, Events, Houston Parrot Festival, Patricia Sund, People in Aviculture, tagged African Grey, Alex the African Grey, behavior training, Bird Talk Writer, blogging about parrots, Cincinnati Zoo, Dr. Irene Pepperberg, Houston Parrot Festival, information about parrots, Irene Pepperberg, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, rehabilitation on January 26, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Midwest Bird Expo: This One is a Keeper!
Posted in Events, Patricia Sund, People in Aviculture, tagged African Grey, behavior training, Bird Blogs, Bird Talk Magazine, Bird Talk Writer, birds, blogging about parrots, Dr. Irene Pepperberg, Irena Schulz, Jason Crean, Mark Bittner, Midwest Bird Expo, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, parrot information, Parrot Nation, parrots, Patricia Sund, Positive reinforcement training, Snowball the dancing cockatoo, Sy Montgomery on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just got an Email from Jason Crean, who I met at the Rocky Mountain Society of Aviculture in Denver… in November. (I love the sound of that…) Jason has this really great product he loves: it’s tea for your bird. (More on that in another post!) Anyway, he has this very neat website: http://www.beaksbirdhouse.com/index2.html [...]
What’s The Point?
Posted in essays and articles, Patricia Sund, Uncategorized, tagged African Grey, African Grey Babies, Baby Parrots, behavior training, Bird Blogs, information about parrots, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, Positive reinforcement training, taking care of parrots on January 9, 2010 | 11 Comments »
WHAT’S THE POINT? By Patricia Sund Having a parrot in your life is a puzzling existence. I suppose you could agree with the idea that they provide companionship just as a dog or a cat does, but why in God’s name a parrot? Where did we ever get the idea that having a parrot would [...]
“A Toy Story”: The Story Behind “Ring Around the Rainbow”
Posted in Houston Parrot Festival, Patricia Sund, People in Aviculture, Uncategorized, tagged "Ring Around the Rainbow Toy, Bird Blogs, Bird toys, Bonnie Jay, Christina Giordano, Houston Parrot Festival, information about parrots, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, Parrot toys, parrots, Patricia Sund, StarBird Toys on January 6, 2010 | 22 Comments »
One day as I idly sat and watched Parker industriously chewing on the shoelace aglet of my sneaker, I thought, “You know, somebody ought to make a toy with a pant load of shoelaces on it!” And as I thought about it, I wondered if it was possible to get somebody to put aglets all [...]
A New Decade in the Works
Posted in Bird Talk Magazine, Cincinnati Zoo, Patricia Sund, tagged African Greys, Baby Parrots, Bird Blogs, bird food, Bird Talk Magazine, Cincinnati Zoo, Dave Oehler, feeding birds, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, preparing food for birds, Steve Malowski, taking care of parrots, working at a zoo, Zoo Keepers on January 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Wouldn’t this look good on my car? Ten years ago, when the Millennium rolled around, I didn’t have birds. My life was entirely different really. I was still on my first of the four total vacuum cleaners I’ve had since then, I had clean carpeting as opposed to the slate tile I have now and [...]
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