A couple of weeks ago, I confessed to having once stormed the dog bowl and to having eaten up all of the dogfood while our very elderly labrador passively looked on. And I know it was a rather shameful thing to have done, especially as Lucy’s now 99 in human years. But I have to tell you that I am definitely not the main culprit in the matter. Certainly not, because we still have a serial offender! You see, we have two free-range chickens wandering around the garden. And one

A lot of parrots like me think that humans look pretty much the same, -well, at least the majority of them. And they probably all think the same about Senegal Parrots. We wear feathers and they wear clothes. But every so often, I come across a human being that is totally different; maybe different in the way that they look, or different in the way they see the world. Or, as in Nick Vujicic’s case, different in both of these ways. Nick Vujicic was born in 1982, to Serbian immi

On the whole, I’m a very brave, bold bird. Very little phases me in life, and I’m afraid that I’ve even been known to chase a hungry Labrador away from its bowl so I could eat all of its food up myself. But before you all shout ‘shame!’ at me, I’d like to confess that there are a couple of things which will always press my ‘panic button.’ I have an inbuilt fear of birds of prey, and I get the ultimate heebie-jeebies if I catch sight of a snake! So, I wasn’t too happy when my

In my book which came out a few years ago, I wrote a piece about feathers. And that’s not very surprising given that I’m a very beautiful parrot! It was entitled: ‘Is a feather simply a feather, or is it really a work of art?’ And that’s because feathers really are quite amazing things. In fact, birds like me have seven different types, each of which serves a different purpose. For example, my durable, shaped wing feathers have an interlocking microstructure which allows me t