Parrot Fashion

No Oscar, But He's Pollywood’s Leading Man

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON

So there I was, on a hot afternoon in Perth a few days ago, looking for a polygon - but I had to make do with a "polly gone" instead. The brilliant hues of this macaw’s plumage caught my attention, so I had to get a shot of him, just to capture the great colours.

Fans of the peerless TV comedy troupe Monty Python would remember the famous Dead Parrot Sketch, but there were no such worries here. This bloke wasn’t dead. He wasn’t stuffed. He hadn’t even been to a taxidermist.

He’s simply a toy parrot. Yup, flip a switch and he’ll greet you with a marvellously authentic voice. So, yes, you can get really close to him – and he’ll never get his (or your) feathers ruffled.

Check out the rules at Camera Critters or go to Misty Dawn.

Pretty Chirpy For A Lost Bird

That’s A Feather In His Cap

A missing parrot has been reunited with its owner after chirping its own name down the phone from the home of its rescuer. The woman who found two-year-old cockatiel Smokey wanted to be sure she was speaking to the rightful owners. So she passed the phone to the bird, and it immediately squawked its name.

FOOTNOTE: Pollywood star.