Life has an unerring habit of presenting us all with challenges. If you’re a bird like me, then it’s often the weather that causes us...

Parrots have a bit of an extrovert image to live up to. We all want to be viewed as “top bird,” so outwardly, we like to appear...

I’m not really a fan of flies. In fact, no self-respecting fly is ever allowed to come near me! If I see one, I give out a warning ‘hiss’...

And so we find ourselves in the season of Lent, -the time when humans remember how Jesus spent 40 days in the desert, both fasting and...

Before my owner and his wife went on their recent trip to Norway, I hatched a plan with them. Everyone in Norway speaks English, so I...

My owner and his wife are still rattling on about their recent trip to Norway. And northern Norway is a pretty dark place to be in...

My owner and his wife are recently back from a trip to Norway where they went to see the Northern lights and to try their hand at dog...

I’ve often said that humans are a very strange bunch, but my owner and his wife take the biscuit. All creatures know that if you’re going...

The other day, I was sitting on my owner’s shoulder watching a programme on TV. It’s something that we do most evenings. The interviewer...

This week, I’m going to say a bit more about ‘love’ because it’s probably the most important thing we will ever hope to experience here...

Wouldn’t it be interesting if parrots like me conducted surveys? I’d love to line up a random group of humans and ask them all this...

Although some of these words could be used to describe my feathery appearance, (minus the ‘chaotic’ of course!), this title’s not about...

It’s been really cold recently and we’ve even had snow. We just don’t get that sort of thing in deepest Senegal, so I had to follow the...

I always think that humans should get a whole lot more excited than they do about the season of Advent. After all, the word “Advent”...

Well, I’m very pleased to say that my team, -Senegal, -made it through to the knock-out stages of the World Cup! Unfortunately, we then...

The world in which parrots exist is very straight-forwards. You could say that we live out our lives at a subsistence level. In the wild,...

The World Cup Finals are upon us! And I have to say that it’s all quite difficult for a parrot to comprehend…….. Image by Elias Schäfer...

An endearing fact about parrots is that we’re normally eternal optimists, and just get on with our daily lives irrespective of what’s...

I often like to sit on my favourite perch and cogitate quietly. So the other day, I found myself remembering back to when I was a young...

Over the last couple of months or so, I’ve been joining my owner as he takes church services. I sit on his shoulder, and my owner...