Word's Worth: Celebrating talking birds in the news, history, mythology, literature, & more.
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News
Parrot Calls Out Police in Emergency
news article -- Police in the northern English city of Manchester respond to a parrot’s emergency call.

Psychic Parrot is ‘Staggering’
news article -- A New York woman claims to have a psychic parrot which knows exactly what visitors are thinking.

Vigilant, Screaming Parrot Thwarts Robbery
news article -- Fernando Santos’ painstaking training of his pet parrot paid off when a burglar broke into his living room.

History
Buccaneer Birds and the Parrots of the Carribbean
article -- The parrot is the quintessential pirate’s companion. But this unusual relationship is generally overlooked, if not completely ignored.

Mythology
Birdwatching Among the Ruins: Mexico’s Mythical Macaws
article -- The most exotic birds on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula haven’t ruffled a feather since 200 B.C. That’s because they’re carved in the stone of ancient Mayan ruins.

Pop Culture
Talking Bird Collectible Toys
article -- If you’d like a bird to give a pellet back to you, consider collecting PEZ or other plastic candy dispensers. To date, half-a-dozen dispensers feature heads modeled after talking birds.

They’re Rubber, We’re Glue: Why We Listen to Disney’s Clockwork Birds
article -- Disney’s robotic birds are some of the most bizarre contraptions you’ll find anywhere. The fact that most people accept them as "normal" says a lot about the way we think of real birds.

Music
Microwave Parroting
song/lyrics -- A conversation between a parrot and a microwave oven triggers off a magical transformation.

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Literature
From the Story of the Flood to Who Killed Laura Palmer
article -- Documented words that talking birds never said, should have said, or refused to say.

Good Books With Talking Birds
Read about new and classic literature involving talking birds.

The following titles are available from Amazon.com:
"The Loop" by Joe Coomer
"The Case of the Perjured Parrot" by Erle Stanley Gardner
"The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot" by Robert Arthur
"The Shoe Bird" by Eudora Welty
"The Parrot: An Italian Folktale" by Laszlo Gal

"Flaubert's Parrot" by Julian Barnes

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