20 Parrot Tricks

We are down to one pet now since we lost Madison last December. Barnabas, a conure Parrot,  was hatched 6-3-2010 in Hawaii.  We are hoping he will learn some tricks and talk, so maybe this video is for him more than us? (so far we are not advancing very fast?) Someone gave us a conure years ago, but he was killed in a encounter with a dog that was visiting our house. (We used to let him fly free around the house.) Our last bird we had, Tika, died in the house fire 4 1/2 years ago. In case you do not know, Barnabas, means son of Encourager, a nickname someone gave one of my heroes in the Bible.  (can anyone tell me that mans real name?)  Be sure and stop by and welcome our new friend- he likes to sit on your shoulder.

This was Barneys first cage- a dog cage actually-

he now has his own Bird Cage that sits in the corner.

This is me and our parakeet when we lived in North Dakota-

I can't remember his name or what happended to him.

We lost Tica in our house fire almost 5 years ago-

we had a memorial service for him with his own children's pastor.

A man took his parrot to the vet because it had been sick. The vet said, "I have good news and I have bad news. The bad news is, your bird has chirpees. The good news is, it's tweetable."

One day a man went to an auction. There, he found an exotic parrot. He really wanted this bird, so he got caught up in the bidding. He kept bidding, but kept getting outbid, so he went higher and higher and higher.
Finally, after bidding much more than he had intended, he finally won. The bird was his! As he was paying for the parrot, he said to the auctioneer, "I sure hope this parrot isn't defective. I'd hate to pay this much money only to find out that he can't talk!"
"Of course he can talk," said the auctioneer. "Who do you think kept bidding against you?"