COMPANION PARROT QUARTERLY
ISSUE #70

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover Art by John Brasaemle
(Mailed August 2006)

EDITORIAL: LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE
By Sally Blanchard

STUFF YOUR PARROT WANTS YOU TO KNOW: Giving Your Parrot a Daily Health Check
By Sally Blanchard

MY EXPERIENCES WITH COCKATOOS: Part I: What Cockatoos Have Taught Me Over the Last Thirty Years
By Sally Blanchard

NEVER SAY NEVER: A Red-throated Conure Turns Her Caregiver Into a Prevaricator
By Brooke Lowry

COCKATOO OBSERVATIONS PART II:
A Pretty-Darn-Perfect Moluccan Joins The Bailey Flock

By Barbara Bailey

LOUIE’S LESSONS IN LOVE: Growing a Bond with a Yellow-nape
By Jamie Dreyer

TEACHING SPIKE NEW TRICKS THROUGH PATTERNING Reprinted and Updated from PBR #18
By Sally Blanchard

OLDER BAPPIES ARE WONDERFUL TOO: Well-socialized Young Parrots Make Great Companions

By Melissa Meadows

HOME AT LAST: The First Release of Seram Cockatoos Back into the Wild
By Bonnie Zimmerman, Project Bird Watch

THE FUN PAGE
If Parrots Had People For Pets
Recipe: Chunky Monkey
Taking the Baby for a Walk - Shari Beaudoin
 
FULL COLOR CENTERFOLD
Weird Parrot Photo Contest
The Parrot Paintings of Ria Winter from the Netherlands pg. 45

FRIENDS OF THE SCARLET MACAW
By Sally Blanchard, Susanne Cochran, Joanne Abramson, Susanne Cochran, Kashmir Csaky, Ingrid Davis, Sybil Erdin, Ruth Fahrmeier, Diana Holloway, Karen McNeese, Melissa Meadows, and Valerie Omand

TRAVELING DOG & PARROT SHOW: Touring the Country with Two Greys and a Chihuahua
By Leota Hoover

PARROTS AS MIRRORS OF OUR OWN ENERGY AND MOODS: An Important Article Reprinted and Updated
By Sally Blanchard

Breeder/Bird Shop Advertising

QUESTIONS TO ASK A BREEDER OR BIRD SHOP

WELCOME TO THE BIRD HOUSE
A Tale of Two Cockatoos Update

By Laura Ainsworth

WILD BIRD PAGE: The Owl Who Sat Down Beside Me
By Sally Blanchard

RECYCLES: What Then?
By Sybil Erden

Parrot Product Reviews
By Sally Blanchard & Melissa Meadows

Letters to the Editor

THE BACK PAGE
All of the Stuff I Need to Know About the Complexities of Life I Learned from my Parrots