{"id":18148,"date":"2017-09-27T06:36:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T06:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/?p=18148"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:28:46","slug":"newsworthy-bird-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/newsworthy-bird-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsworthy Bird Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44559\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44559\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44559 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/puerto-rican-parrots-cage-usfws-jan-paul-zegarra-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"four Puerto Rican parrots in cage\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/puerto-rican-parrots-cage-usfws-jan-paul-zegarra-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/puerto-rican-parrots-cage-usfws-jan-paul-zegarra-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/puerto-rican-parrots-cage-usfws-jan-paul-zegarra-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/puerto-rican-parrots-cage-usfws-jan-paul-zegarra.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four Puerto Rican parrots, days before their release into the wild population. Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmedia.fws.gov\/digital\/collection\/natdiglib\/id\/31290\/rec\/13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan Paul Zegarra\/USFWS National Digital Library<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The next time you have some downtime, pull up a perch or T-stand, settle in with your feathered friend and do a Google news search with the key words <a href=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/species\/parrot\/\">\u201cparrot\u201d<\/a> or \u201cbird.\u201d You might be treated to some fascinating and downright entertaining bird stories \u2014 perfect topics to read aloud to your pet bird!<\/p>\n<p>In this sampling of bird news from around the globe, see what an African grey parrot ordered off Amazon.com using Alexa, why parrots in the wild eat clay and how the dedicated staff at the Caribbean Ecological Services Office\u00a0of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) helped 250 endangered Puerto Rican <a href=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/species\/amazon-parrot\/\">Amazon parrots<\/a> ride out Hurricane Irma.<\/p>\n<h3>Endangered Puerto Rican Amazons Ride Out Hurricane Irma<\/h3>\n<p>By the time Hurricane Irma began barreling toward Puerto Rico, the island was in full storm preparation mode to protect its citizens. Likewise, Edwin Muniz and Tom White of the Caribbean Ecological Services Office\u00a0of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) were busy making preparations for some very important psittacines \u2014 the island&#8217;s population of endangered Puerto Rican Amazons \u2014 all 230 of them! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/how-230-endangered-parrots-survived-hurricane-irma-665911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You and your bird will no doubt appreciate this tender story of dedicated stewards ensuring that their feathered friends rode out the storm without losing a feather.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>African Grey Orders Gift Boxes<\/h3>\n<p>Surely this is a scenario many of our birds dream of &#8230; taking charge of the household shopping. A woman in southeast London couldn&#8217;t figure out how an order for gift boxes arrived at her home. Turns out her <a href=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/species\/african-grey-parrot\/\">African parrot<\/a>, Buddy, managed to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/parrot-manages-fool-amazons-alexa-11207953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> fool Amazon&#8217;s Alexa<\/a> by imitating his owner&#8217;s voice and ordered a fancy gift box set. If you see your birds giving each other celebratory &#8220;foot pumps,&#8221; it might be them paying homage to Buddy&#8217;s ability to outsmart his humans.<\/p>\n<p>And not to be outdone, here&#8217;s a story of a <a href=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/species\/budgie-parakeet\/\">budgie<\/a> who knows how to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/parakeet-siri-apple-iphone_uk_5756c82ee4b08954afb7e551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> activate Siri <\/a>on his owner&#8217;s iPhone. Proof that little birds are not little brained<\/p>\n<h3>Why Do Wild Parrots Eat Clay?<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44324\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44324\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/macaws-mealy-parrot-flkr-brian-ralphs-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blue-and-gold macaws, scarlet macaws, chestnut-fronted Macaw and a mealy parrot at the Tambopata clay lick\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/macaws-mealy-parrot-flkr-brian-ralphs-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/macaws-mealy-parrot-flkr-brian-ralphs-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/macaws-mealy-parrot-flkr-brian-ralphs-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/macaws-mealy-parrot-flkr-brian-ralphs.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from \u201c<a title=\"DSC_8774.NEF\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/birdbrian\/4415448678\">DSC_8774.NEF<\/a>\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/birdbrian\/\">Brian Ralphs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener noreferrer\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you&#8217;ve caught your bird chewing on items that don&#8217;t fall anywhere near or on the food spectrum \u2014 my recent experience has been my shower curtain and the cardboard sleeve on my coffee-to-go cup. Of course, that type of chomping is more of a way to explore textures than to satisfy taste buds \u2014 parrots do like to explore with their beaks just for fun. Before you go thinking that the parrots on the cliff in the photo to the right are simply playing around, know that researchers theorize that these parrots are chewing on the clay cliffs to benefit their health.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0recent article on NPR.org tells how biologist Donald Brightsmith of Texas A&amp;M University and his team of researchers have been studying a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/species\/parrot\/\">parrots<\/a> in southeastern Peru that frequent a clay lick cliff near the Tambopato River. Brightsmith and fellow researchers have set out to answer the question as to why parrots eat clay \u2014 does it function as a natural &#8220;detox&#8221; cleanse for them, or does it play an important role in supplementing their diet? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2017\/09\/07\/547981850\/why-do-parrots-and-people-eat-clay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See what the researchers have concluded.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do a Google news search with the key words \u201cparrot\u201d or \u201cbird.\u201d You might be treated to some fascinating and downright entertaining bird stories \u2014 perfect topics to read aloud to your pet bird!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday","category-new"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Newsworthy Bird Stories &#8211; 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She has authored a multitude of articles covering all aspects of pet birds and their care, and has had the opportunity to interview world-renowned avian behaviorists, veterinarians, aviculturists, researchers and conservationists. Her journey in the bird world has taken her to the remote areas of Brazil to see hyacinth macaws in their native habitat, as well as on bird-watching trips to Spain, Puerto Rico and Mexico. She is especially thankful to have met so many passionate pet bird owners throughout her years at the helm of Bird Talk magazine. Her interest in pet birds started at the age of 9, when she saved up her penny collection to buy Elvis, her cockatiel companion of 22 years. Little did she know then that her love of birds would some day lead to a career in which being chased by a cockatoo during a photo-shoot, having a 5-minute phone conversation with a reader\u2019s African grey parrot, hand-wrestling a caique to get her pilfered ring back and having her work desk \u201cre-decorated\u201d by a visiting Amazon parrot were all just another day at the office. 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