I’d like a parrot who doesn’t bite! There’s no such thing as a parrot who doesn’t bite. All birds will bite.  I hear the first request from would-be bird owners who are exploring adopting their first parrot. They think that buying a baby bird from a breeder will help them avoid getting bitten. Conversely, they…

Do parrots in the wild have names? If so, how do they learn them (and how can we know this)? Check out this great video explaining how a scientist named Karl Berg is studying green-rumped parrotlets and how they learn their “signature contact calls” (aka. “names”). Hello, I’m Bob. Hey, Tom, do you want to…

I’ve been watching the Netflix show “House of Cards” (great show, btw) and there’s an episode where the main character Frank Underwood visits a billionaire who happens to own a parrot. The parrot, you eventually see, is a sun conure. Which of course I point out to Stewie, who is sitting behind me. The screen…

Sure looks like he’s sledding to me! In any case, it’s clear that even wild animals like to do things that serve no other purpose than to have fun. Smart animals will come up with games for themselves even when it doesn’t serve any immediate needs like shelter, food or reproduction. Since most of us…

Here at Best in Flock, we like to celebrate National Pi Day with a very sweet pi(onus) topped with a bit of cinnamon: List your 3.14 Reasons Why Pis are awesome in the comments….

It’s been a somewhat slow year for postings here on Best in Flock, but I thought I’d do a year-end wrap-up as we approach 170 different articles. We didn’t work on a lot of new clicker training tricks in the last year, but Mika made a lot of progress with flying. I also started making…