Contents
- Species
- Latest Articles
- The Story of Dr. Pepperberg & Alex the African Grey Turned Into A Play!
- Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Lab: How Grey Parrots Produce Human Speech
- Webinar: The Grey Way—The Older Grey
- Webinar: The Grey Way: Ask Lisa Anything About Greys!
- Webinar: The Grey Way: Time to Travel: Bird Sitter, Boarding or Hitting the Road? with Lisa Bono, CPBC
- Webinar: Grey Parrot Anatomy Project: An Update & Relevance to all Parrot Species
- Webinar: “The Grey Way: Understanding The African Grey Parrot”
- Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Lab: African Grey Parrots Show Self-Control
- Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Lab: Fun Fundraising Featuring The Parrots
- Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Lab: Do Parrots Understand “Process of Elimination?”
- Inside Pepperberg’s Lab: Do Parrots Engage In Cooperative Behavior?
- Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Lab: Do Parrots Understand Probability?
- Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Research Lab: “What’s Mine is Mine and What’s Yours is Mine”
- Inside Pepperberg’s Lab: African Grey Griffin Speaks His Mind
- Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Lab: Prepping For A Film Crew Visit
- How Dr. Pepperberg Chooses What Topics To Study
- Inside Pepperberg’s Lab: Parrots’ Cognitive Abilities Put To The Liquid Test
- Inside Pepperberg’s Lab: African Grey Athena’s Antics
- Inside Pepperberg’s Lab: Catering to Parrots’ Tastes
- Pepperberg’s Parrots Surprise With Word Choices
- Parrots Find Creative Ways To Delay Bedtime
- Parrots Can Play Mind Games
- Day in the Life of Pepperberg’s Parrots
- A Microchip Can Bring Your Lost Bird Home
- The Grey Parrot Anatomy Project
- New World Parrots: Conures, Amazons, Macaws & More
- New Pepperberg Research: Can Parrots Share?
- Presidents & Their Pet Parrots
- Life After Alex
- Ask Lafeber
Species
African Grey Parrot
The African grey parrot's ability to talk and mimic sounds makes this medium-sized parrot a captivating companion. African grey owners often report that their greys oftentimes talk in context and seem very attuned to their people's emotions. The African grey ...
Latest Articles
The Story of Dr. Pepperberg & Alex the African Grey Turned Into A Play!
In her latest blog, Dr. Irene Pepperberg reflects on the upcoming play "Beyond Words," which dramatizes her remarkable 30-year research relationship with Alex, the infamous African grey parrot who took the world of animal behavior research by storm. Dr. Pepperberg ...
Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Lab: How Grey Parrots Produce Human Speech
Journey inside the avian vocal tract as Dr. Irene Pepperberg explains how African grey parrots miraculously produce human speech ...
Webinar: The Grey Way—The Older Grey
Learn how to care for your aging African grey parrot in this free webinar with parrot expert Lisa Bono, focused on maximizing comfort and quality of life for older greys. Lisa will share insider tips on identifying age-related issues, determining ...
Webinar: The Grey Way: Ask Lisa Anything About Greys!
There are many sides to African grey parrots—highly intelligent, capable of being brilliant mimickers, sometimes full of shenanigans...the list goes on and on. In this episode of The Grey Way, Lisa Bono will channel her years of experience living with ...
Webinar: The Grey Way: Time to Travel: Bird Sitter, Boarding or Hitting the Road? with Lisa Bono, CPBC
Join us for a free webinar on August 13 with Lisa Bono, a certified parrot behavior consultant specializing in African grey parrots, as she presents Episode 4 of The Grey Way, a Lafeber Pet Birds Webinar Series focusing on Congo ...
Webinar: Grey Parrot Anatomy Project: An Update & Relevance to all Parrot Species
Dr. Echols will give us an update on the Grey Parrot Anatomy Project, which aims to create an accurate physical and digital anatomy reference of the African grey parrot ...
Webinar: “The Grey Way: Understanding The African Grey Parrot”
Join us this Friday for a free, interactive webinar. Our guest, Lisa Bono, CPBC, owner and operator of The Platinum Parrot and an associate-certified parrot behavior consultant specializing in African grey parrots, will present "The Grey Way: Understanding the African ...
Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Lab: African Grey Parrots Show Self-Control
Grey parrots may sometimes be impulsive—think about how often you may have had to give your bird multiple timeouts for the same behavior (like chewing on your sunglasses) in a very short time period. However, my students and I have ...
Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Lab: Fun Fundraising Featuring The Parrots
Devising new ways to test parrots' cognitive skills is the exciting part of Dr. Irene Pepperberg and her staff's work. The challenging part is finding the exact words to sum up a study — and the even more challenging part ...
Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Lab: Do Parrots Understand “Process of Elimination?”
Process of elimination and inference are two powers of reasoning, and Dr. Pepperberg conducted fascinating tests to determine the existence of inference in African greys ...
Inside Pepperberg’s Lab: Do Parrots Engage In Cooperative Behavior?
Will African grey parrots share food or ask humans for help? The latest experiments at Dr. Pepperberg's lab give some interesting answers! ...
Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Lab: Do Parrots Understand Probability?
To test a parrot's ability to understand probability, Dr. Irene Pepperberg's cognitive behavior research lab recently presented African grey parrot Griffin with a task similar to what a 6-8 year-old child might be tasked to do — using three of ...
Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Research Lab: “What’s Mine is Mine and What’s Yours is Mine”
“What’s mine is mine and what’s your is mine.” Does this sum up your feathered friend's antics? Dr. Irene Pepperberg explains not only how this parrot quirk is based on natural behavior, but she also shares how we can use ...
Inside Pepperberg’s Lab: African Grey Griffin Speaks His Mind
As companion animals, parrots are unique in that they can use human language to verbally communicate with us. Dr. Irene Pepperberg knows first-hand the advantages of working with such communicative subjects. African grey Griffin, for example, can verbalize requests to ...
Inside Dr. Pepperberg’s Lab: Prepping For A Film Crew Visit
Inviting a film crew into a research lab devoted to the study of cognitive behavior in parrots involves not only prepping the lab, but the parrots and the filmmakers. Dr. Irene Pepperberg shares her account of having a film crew ...
How Dr. Pepperberg Chooses What Topics To Study
The inspirations for topics of Dr. Pepperberg's African grey studies come from many different sources, and all add up to fascinating information being revealed ...
Inside Pepperberg’s Lab: Parrots’ Cognitive Abilities Put To The Liquid Test
After a certain age, children are able to understand conservation of amounts. Can birds also understand that a change in shape might not change the amount? ...
Inside Pepperberg’s Lab: African Grey Athena’s Antics
Our youngest bird, Athena, can present some interesting challenges to our research. We sometimes joke that she doesn’t have an “off switch.” ...
Inside Pepperberg’s Lab: Catering to Parrots’ Tastes
Dr. Pepperberg reveals some unconventional, and unsung, activities needed to get data from the African grey parrots in her lab ...
Pepperberg’s Parrots Surprise With Word Choices
The talkative African grey parrots Dr. Pepperberg works with in her research lab communicate in English, and sometimes they surprise lab staff. See why! ...
Parrots Find Creative Ways To Delay Bedtime
With cognitive abilities matching that of a 5-6 year old, African grey parrots can likewise come up with some creative distractions to delay bedtime. This month, Dr. Pepperberg gives us a look back at the bedtime antics of Alex the ...
Parrots Can Play Mind Games
Research with parrots leads to some unexpected results. Some pleasant, like learning words that weren't trained, and some unpleasant, like acting out ...
Day in the Life of Pepperberg’s Parrots
Curious to know what an average day is like in Dr. Irene Pepperberg's research lab on the Harvard campus? Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at a day in the life of African greys Griffin and Athena! ...
A Microchip Can Bring Your Lost Bird Home
The story of Nigel, the African grey parrot that returned home speaking Spanish, is a good example of how a microchip can facilitate a happy reunion for lost pet ...
The Grey Parrot Anatomy Project
The Grey Parrot Anatomy Project aims to create an accurate physical and digital anatomy reference, including a standardized basis for avian anatomy nomenclature, of the African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus erithacus) ...
New World Parrots: Conures, Amazons, Macaws & More
Parrots can be categorized according to Old World psittacines and New World psittacines. Do you know if your parrots are "Team Old World" or "Team New World"? ...
Presidents & Their Pet Parrots
Can you imagine a parrot perched in the White House? It’s probably happened at some point during our country’s history; after all, some of our past presidents had parrot companions during their presidencies. Here is a list of presidents who ...
Life After Alex
Five years after Alex’s passing, he is still sorely missed; by me and, I believe, by Griffin and Arthur, the other African grey parrots in my lab. Days still exist, particularly when I return after a long absence, during which ...
Ask Lafeber
My Male African Grey is attacking my new female
I adopted a male Timneh in 2020 he is now between 8-10. I just recently adopted a female that is 13. She is quite sociable, he is not! I have had her for a month. My male is very aggressive ...
Squawking
Iam looking after an African grey at least 35 years old. She talks and has a quirky personality. Sometimes she just scwaks and squawks very loudly, is this for attention? ...
Regurgitation behavior
I have a 29 y/o African Grey. I got him when he was about 6 months old - so we've been together a LONG time. He has always regurgitated a bit on a favorite toy and I would remove the ...
My Grey itchy skin
Hi I know everybody thinks their parrot the most brilent but my Piewacket is "something else as far as talking "she loves her bath wings up puffed up.. BUT I can only do alot of that in the summer. I ...
Re Beak cutting & feeding Mcguyver African Grey 15yrs old
Hi Brenda Many thanks for detailed answer on my budjies. Mcguyver started growing a skew beak at age 10 after beak was trimmed exceptionally short, he could not eat properly for a long time, at same parlour they trimmed wings, ...
African Grey
My African grey is about 37years old ans she is blind in one eye. She has a 6year old male. She keeps on laying infertile eggs, although we give them a healthy diet and everything else. Is she too old? ...
Female African grey showing aggression to male
I have a breeding pair of African greys. Ever since I reintroduced the nest box, the female has started showing aggression to the male. Chasing him off perches and not letting him get too close. What should I do? ...
Egg laying
I have 2 african grey's that I hand reared in 2004. They started laying eggs last year 2022 and that is when I realised that they are both females. My concern is that in the last 12 -16 months they ...
30 year old African grey laid egg, why?
We have a 30 year old African grey that laid an egg recently. I know that my bf has always been bonded with her but nothing has changed recently with their interactions. To our knowledge she has never laid an ...