PHOTOS! One gorgeous macaw

[Die Fledermaus]

I mentoned elsewhere about the macaw in the pet store, born October 26th. We all watched him/her grow from a little featherless gray thing to its current level of splendor. Today's photos:









Note the clipped wings to prevent him/her flying away. Not named yet as the bird is going to a lady whose macaw passed, and she'll name it, hopefully after it is finally sexed.

[jeannie]

he is very handsome!

Those birds are SO loud though. I could never have one in this small apartment.

[Die Fledermaus]

Oh, but a saw isn't noisy??

I have no idea how noisy they are, but this guy/gal never made a sound. Perhaps when alone and bored they do. . . but the lady who will get him next week is home all day. A big responsibilty those birds; they live so long.

Interesting how he/she used the beak as something like a third leg to help walking on the perch. He/she even used its big black tongue to help maneuver on the perch.

[cognac]

DF, you are so right, birds will squawk when bored, or trying to get attention. I used to have two, my one died, the other I had to give up to the SPCA, when I was going off to college no one wanted to care for him, and I couldn't bring him with me . I hope he found a nice home.
Cognac

[calvinator1]

My cousin had a parrot. She and my aunt spent a huge amount of time trying to teach it to say the usual things, but the only words it seemed willing to learn were the curse words my cousin's husband taught it. (Being ex-air force, he knew quite a few.) They had to return the bird to the breeder, though, because it developed a nasty streak and started attacking every other living thing in the house, from lowly house plant to husband. The dog took to cowering in the kitchen pantry.

[cognac]

I maybe able to make your cousins husband blush, maybe even the bird. I want a bird and Jake keeps saying if we were to ever get one he's gonna teach swears I'm all like you are not. I'm sure the bird would pick it up though, I swear more then my botfriend does. When we have kids I can see it now, Daddy, Look what I heard mommy say, (fill in anyword you can think of). I can so see it now.
Cognac

[Die Fledermaus]

Hmm, I wonder if the bird could learn the terms in my lexicon, all those obscure terms I first learned from Gilbert and Sullivan librettos as a kid: supercilious, pusillanimous, etc. Maybe some famous quotes from great philosophers. . . ;D

[calvinator1]

An upscale version of that parrot in The Simpsons, that Homer liked to argue with.

[Die Fledermaus]

Cal,

Yea. I also liked Mojo the helper monkey in The Simpsons.

You saw my Simpsons thread on the cats here. I thought that was a highly odd and quirky episode, topped the next week by a return appearance of Doctor Marvin Monroe - who has been DEAD for at least eight years! WTF?? Yes, dead; we even saw the headstone.

[calvinator1]

And Troy McClure proclaimed it so! It was very odd seeing him again. Maybe they were testing to see if anyone was paying attention.

[Die Fledermaus]

calvinator1 said:

And Troy McClure proclaimed it so! It was very odd seeing him again. Maybe they were testing to see if anyone was paying attention.

Cal, here's a question for you.

The Troy McClure character was a composite of two real Hollywood over-the-hill faux-hunks. Who were they? (Both are now dead).

McClure never died on the show, but his original voice - Phil Hartman - was murdered by Phil's drugged-out crazy wife, who then offed herself. Terrible loss.

Anyway, maybe Bleeding Gums Murphy and Maude Flanders will be next to return from the grave.