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Reconnaissance Mission to Australia

Parrot Blogger: Christina Zdenek | Sep 30, 2012

After completing my 3-yr-long masters on Palm Cockatoos and getting it accepted by The Australian National University, I took 4 months to top up my funds and climb some trees. I was an installation manager for Mobile Illumination, Inc., wrapping big trees with Christmas lights for, basically, the...

Biscuit’s Great Escape - The Conclusion

Parrot Blogger: Sam Williams, PhD | Mar 13, 2012

Biscuit was alive. It was incredible because breaking his leg at such a young age would have normally resulted in his very own personal extinction. Back then he couldn’t even feed himself, but despite his many and malicious protests the parrot team persevered and Biscuit as a result had not died a...

Biscuit’s Great Escape

Parrot Blogger: Sam Williams, PhD | Feb 27, 2012

It was a perfect morning in parrot-topia. The sun was rising dependably. The songbirds welcomed the day and the delightful wild parrots chortled in the tree-tops. In another life Biscuit would have been perfecting the art of steaming milk to complete his morning cup of hand ground Kenyan coffee....

Biscuit’s ready

Parrot Blogger: Sam Williams, PhD | Feb 15, 2012

Biscuit hated people and he was thoroughly sick and tired of human aversion training. He had hated people from the day a nice lady called to say she had found him as an injured parrot. He had made sure that every human he met knew he hated them. He'd even gone so far as to leave a long trail of...