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Parrots Books
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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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,188 ratings — published 2008
Harold Finds a Voice: Child's Play Library-Social and Emotional Learning (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.88 — 317 ratings — published 2013
Mango, Abuela, and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,057 ratings — published 2015
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,357 ratings — published 2010
Parrots of the Wild: A Natural History of the World’s Most Captivating Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.50 — 50 ratings — published 2015
Parrots Over Puerto Rico (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,863 ratings — published 2013
Of Parrots and People: The Sometimes Funny, Always Fascinating, and Often Catastrophic Collision of Two Intelligent Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.04 — 206 ratings — published 2008
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story . . . with Wings (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,674 ratings — published 2004
How to Read a Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.21 — 106,245 ratings — published 2024
The Hotel Balzaar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,990 ratings — published 2024
First Day Critter Jitters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.23 — 746 ratings — published 2020
Birds of a Feather: A True Story of Hope and the Healing Power of Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.24 — 170 ratings — published 2018
Pirate's Perfect Pet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.82 — 391 ratings — published 2016
Where's the Elephant? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.16 — 360 ratings — published 2015
The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.02 — 902 ratings — published 2001
Radio Fifth Grade (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.56 — 704 ratings — published 1989
If You Were a Parrot (Physical & Behavioral Adaptation)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.60 — 52 ratings — published 2006
Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.95 — 129 ratings — published 2003
Good Morning to Me! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.45 — 309 ratings — published 2015
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,051 ratings — published 2008
Guide to the Senegal Parrot and Its Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.06 — 48 ratings — published 1998
The Parrot Who Thought She Was a Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.39 — 283 ratings — published 2008
The Parrotlet Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.93 — 15 ratings — published 1999
A Guide to the Quaker Parrot (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.97 — 65 ratings — published 1997
The African Grey Parrot Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.05 — 39 ratings — published 2000
Unlovable (Owlet Book)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.17 — 723 ratings — published 2001
Elsewhere in the Land of Parrots: A Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 3.66 — 148 ratings — published 2003
A Snow Day for Plum!: An Award-Winning Middle Grade Humor Adventure About Zoo Animals and Friendship for Children (Ages 8-12)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 3.95 — 91 ratings — published
Cockatiel Mutations: A Bounty of Color (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.86 — 7 ratings — published 2012
Chicken Thoughts: Comics About Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.79 — 219 ratings — published 2020
Kawaii Birdies: Learn to Draw 80 Adorable Feathered Friends (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.55 — 64 ratings — published
Daddy, Could I Have an Elephant? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 3.89 — 80 ratings — published 1996
The Wayfinder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,094 ratings — published 2025
Ready to Soar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.29 — 350 ratings — published 2024
Conversations with Cosmo: At Home with an African Grey Parrot (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 3.43 — 106 ratings — published 2010
Psittaculture: Breeding, Rearing and Management of Parrots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 1991
The Family of Parrots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1997
Too Shy to Say Hi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.00 — 63 ratings — published
From Head to Toe (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.21 — 21,673 ratings — published 1997
Squirrels in Antarctica (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.53 — 47 ratings — published
Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest (Amerind Studies in Archaeology)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
The Ultimate Guide to Eclectus Parrots (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published 2013
Australian Shell Parakeets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1979
African Grey Parrots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 3.14 — 7 ratings — published 1979
Training African Grey Parrots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 3.33 — 18 ratings — published 1989
Parrots of the World. Illustrated by William T. Cooper. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Summer Camp Critter Jitters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.00 — 317 ratings — published 2021
“There can be no question that parrots have more intellect than any other kind of bird, and it is this that makes them such favourite pets and brings upon them so many sorrows. ...Men will buy them ... and carry them off to all quarters of the native town, intending, I doubt not, to treat them kindly; but "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel", and confinement in a solitary cell, the discipline with which we reform hardened criminals, is misery enough to a bird with an active mind, without the superadded horrors of ... life in a tin case, hung from a nail in the wall of a dark shop... Why does the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals never look into the woes of parrots?
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However happy you make her captivity, imagination will carry her at times to the green field and blue sky, and she fancies herself somewhere near the sun, heading a long file of exultant companions in swift career through the whistling air. Then she opens her mouth and rings out a wild salute to all parrots in the far world below her.”
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However happy you make her captivity, imagination will carry her at times to the green field and blue sky, and she fancies herself somewhere near the sun, heading a long file of exultant companions in swift career through the whistling air. Then she opens her mouth and rings out a wild salute to all parrots in the far world below her.”
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“A third principal states that the more intense the interaction between a student and its models, the more effective the training. Intensity - the extent to which tutors arouse a response in a student - is determined from direct observations of interactants (e.g., by recording emotional responses) or from indirect measures (e.g., blood pressure or hormone levels).
One implication, supported by data reviewed in Pepperberg and Neapolitan, is that, for both humans and birds, intense interaction requires one or more tutors. Of course, increasing the intensity of the interaction may not always increase learning: overly nurturant models may inhibit learning by preventing a student from experimenting on his or her own and overly aggressive models may arouse fear or counter-aggression strong enough to block processing of any input.”
― The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots
One implication, supported by data reviewed in Pepperberg and Neapolitan, is that, for both humans and birds, intense interaction requires one or more tutors. Of course, increasing the intensity of the interaction may not always increase learning: overly nurturant models may inhibit learning by preventing a student from experimenting on his or her own and overly aggressive models may arouse fear or counter-aggression strong enough to block processing of any input.”
― The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots
