The parrot

📖 In short

The parrot is a wonderful colorful bird with red, green, blue and yellow feathers, and most live in warm forests. What people love most is that it can copy sounds and learn words, repeating what it hears!

🤩 Did you know?

The smallest parrot is 10 centimeters long, and the biggest up to 100 centimeters.
One African grey parrot learned about 800 words!
Some big parrots live more than 50 years.
Baby macaws stay in the nest for 3 or 4 months before they fly.

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🌟 A strong hooked beak

A parrot has a strong hooked beak for cracking hard seeds and nuts. It also uses it like a third hand to climb branches.

🔍 Toes like a hand

A parrot's foot has four toes, two pointing forwards and two backwards, so it can hold food in its foot and lift it to its beak, just as you do with your hand!

💡 A talented copycat

In the forest a parrot copies other birds' calls, and at home it copies people talking, the phone ringing and the kettle whistling. It's very clever and loves to play.

🎯 Many kinds

Parrots include the big colorful macaw with a long tail, the cockatoo with a crest of feathers on its head, the African grey parrot, and the little green parakeet.