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Books for Parrot Lovers
Fiction and nonfiction books for parrot lovers. Includes bird science, natural history, biology, ethology, wildlife, animal science, cultural history, history, memoirs, travelogues, research, nature, evolution, ecology, conservation, environment, endangered species, animal fiction, animal fantasy, xenofiction, etc.
African grey parrots, yellow-naped amazon parrots, Indian Ringneck parakeets, budgies, budgerigars, scarlet macaws, sulphur-created cockatoos, Senegal parrots, parrotlets, cockatiels, carolina parakeets, kakapos, keas, lories, rainbow lorikeets, hawkheaded parrots, caiques, conures, rosellas, galahs, etc.
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Books for Bird Lovers
African grey parrots, yellow-naped amazon parrots, Indian Ringneck parakeets, budgies, budgerigars, scarlet macaws, sulphur-created cockatoos, Senegal parrots, parrotlets, cockatiels, carolina parakeets, kakapos, keas, lories, rainbow lorikeets, hawkheaded parrots, caiques, conures, rosellas, galahs, etc.
Also:
Books for Bird Lovers
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Beak of the Moon
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Philip Temple (Goodreads Author)
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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
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Budgerigar: How a Brave, Chatty and Colourful Little Aussie Bird Stole the World's Heart
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The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird
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Of Parrots and People: The Sometimes Funny, Always Fascinating, and Often Catastrophic Collision of Two Intelligent Species
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The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story . . . with Wings
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Conversations with Cosmo: At Home with an African Grey Parrot
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Betty Jean Craige (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Alex the Parrot: No Ordinary Bird: A True Story
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Jasper, Amazon Parrot: A Rainforest Adventure
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Sharon C. Williams (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Pickles the Parrot Returns: My Continued Adventures with a Birdbrain
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Georgi Abbott (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Pickles the Parrot Speaks: On Life, the Universe, and Sesame Seed
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Georgi Abbott (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Snowball: The Dancing Cockatoo
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A Parrot in the Pepper Tree
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Why Does My Bird Do That: A Guide to Parrot Behavior
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3.81 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Real Macaw (Meg Langslow, #13)
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Donna Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 3,902 ratings
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Parrots of the World
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Captain Rum: A Wondrous Adventure
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John Perrier (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Conservation in Time of War: A Transformational Journey through Beauty and Tragedy
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LoraKim Joyner (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Birds of a Feather: A True Story of Hope and the Healing Power of Animals
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Lorin Lindner (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Tiriki's Great Escape
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Angela Oliver (Goodreads Author)
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The Case of the Purloined Parrot: A McGurk Mystery
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Hex Appeal
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Kate Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 12,933 ratings
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The hunter's reflection
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Bálint Makai (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Manual of Parrot Behavior
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Andrew Luescher (editor)
4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Here comes Parren,
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Flight of the Budgerigar: An Illustrated History
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The Empty Window
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Sandeagozu
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Amazing Monty
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Astrid and Cerulean: A Parrot Fantasy
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Coconut
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Little Birdies!
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Anthony F. Lewis (Goodreads Author)
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The Bird Smugglers
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Rocky’s Adventure
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When Grandfather's Parrot Inherited Kennington Court
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The Parrot Who Thought She Was a Dog
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A Parrot in the House
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The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots
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4.32 avg rating — 180 ratings
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The Widow and the Parrot
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Harvey's Wacky Parrot Adventure
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Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird
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3.91 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Rosa's Parrot
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Winging It: A Memoir of Caring for a Vengeful Parrot Who's Determined to Kill Me
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Jenny Gardiner (Goodreads Author)
3.12 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Parrots in the City: One Bird's Struggle for a Place on the Planet
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Animal Bodies, Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills
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Parrots of Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands: Biology, ecology and conservation
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Cockatoos
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Parrots of Africa
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Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
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Kea, Bird of Paradox: The Evolution and Behavior of a New Zealand Parrot
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Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction
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4.57 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Carolina Parakeet: Glimpses of a Vanished Bird
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Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird
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Parrot
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Parrots' Wood
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Waiting for the Macaws: And Other Stories From The Age Of Extinction
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Parrots Are Smart!
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Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
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Kakapo Dance
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One Lonely Kakapo
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Sirocco the Rock-Star Kakapo
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Encyclopedia of Parakeets
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Parrot Blues (Neil Hamel, #6)
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A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth
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Parrots Over Puerto Rico
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Susan L. Roth (Author/Illustrator)
4.07 avg rating — 1,854 ratings
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The Ultimate Parrot
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Barrett Watson (Editor)
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Parrot in Art: From Durer to Elizabeth Butterworth
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Parrots: A Natural History
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The Parrot Family: Parakeets, Budgerigars, Cockatiels, Lovebirds, Lories, Macaws
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Encyclopedia of Lovebirds and Other Dwarf Parrots
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Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris
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Australian Parrots
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Story of the Kakapo
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Parrots
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Lost Parrots of America (Gone Forever Series)
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Elsewhere in the Land of Parrots: A Novel
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The Parrot's Lament, and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity
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Eugene Linden (Goodreads Author)
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Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves
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Laurel Braitman (Goodreads Author)
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Cockatiels at Seven (Meg Langslow, #9)
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Love and Ordinary Creatures
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Gwyn Hyman Rubio (Goodreads Author)
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The Book of the Kea
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Philip Temple (Goodreads Author)
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The Legend of the Kea
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Philip Temple (Goodreads Author)
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Dark of the Moon
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Philip Temple (Goodreads Author)
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Flaubert's Parrot (#56) doesn't really have anything to do with parrots.....
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