COMPANION PARROT QUARTERLY
ISSUE #71

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover Art by Sally Blanchard

(Will be mailed the first week in June 2007)

 

PLEA FOR PATIENCE AND ASSISTANCE
By Sally Blanchard

STUFF YOUR PARROT WANTS YOU TO KNOW  Basics of Bathing and Showering
By Sally Blanchard

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

THE BEHAVIOR OF WILD AMAZON PARROTS Its Implications for Companion Parrot Keepers
By Jesse Zgurski

CANDLES ON A CHRISTMAS TREE
The Story of Our Lost Parrot

By Jill Hedgecock

NURTURING GUIDANCE: KIDS AND PARROTS There are Many Similarities in Raising Parrots and Kids
By Melissa Meadows

COCKATOO HEAVEN A Visit to Kakadu National Park in Australia
By Gemma Dehnebostel

MEYER’S PARROT PROJECT IN BOTSWANA The First Studies of the Meyer’s Parrot in the Wild
By Steve Boyes

THE FUN PAGE
If Parrots Had People For Pets
Recipe: Spicy Sweet Potato Pancakes
The Macaw Petroglyph and the Trade in Macaws
 
COLOR CENTERFOLD
Sally Blanchard’s “Tongue-in-Beak” Clayworks and P
ARROT

FRIENDS OF THE HYACINTH MACAW
By Shari Beaudoin, Sally Blanchard, Susanne Cochran,Chris Curtis,
Kashmir Csaky, Melissa Meadows, and Cheryl Weibeler

SOCIAL SECURITY
Understanding Why Parrots Need the Social Security of their Human Flock
Sally Blanchard

TWO DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
Two Poems about Caged Birds
Jolen Casper and Jody Kuchar

QUESTIONS TO ASK A BREEDER OR BIRD SHOP

WELCOME TO THE BIRD HOUSE
A Tale of Three Cockatiels

By Laura Ainsworth

FREE FLIGHT AT COCKATOO DOWNS
By Chris Shank

TRAVELS AND THOUGHTS
By Sally Blanchard

Parrot Product Reviews
By Sally Blanchard

Letters to the Editor

THE BACK PAGE
Wild Bird Page
Double-headed Amazon
Ariel's First Flight