Einstein the Parrot talks and squawks

A parrot can mimic a person's voice.

She keeps a parrot as a pet.

All she could do was parrot a garbled abbreviation in a language she didn't even understand.

They explained that the Galvao bird is a rare and endangered parrot that's in terrible, terrible danger.

A handy thing to have, because language is infinite, and you can't just parrot back the sentences that you've heard.

We have more sharks, more biomass of snappers, more biomass of herbivores, too, like these parrot fish that are like marine goats.

That was actually caused by a school of parrot fish that had started eating it, though luckily, they lost interest before killing it.

Independent candidates can choose from an assortment of alternatives, ranging from a cricket bat to images of various large animals. (Small ones were removed from the list when one candidate, running against another whose symbol was a parrot, wrung the neck of a live parrot at a public meeting to signify what he would do to his rival.)

It turns out that, not only is the Galvao parrot very attractive, useful for headdresses, it evidently has certain hallucinogenic properties, which means that there's a terrible problem with Galvao abuse.

This whimsical wrap up of TED2006 presented by Einstein, the African grey parrot, and her trainer, Stephanie White simply tickles. Watch for the moment when Einstein has a moment with Al Gore.

Christopher Columbus once decided to burn absolutely everything in an entire village after one of the natives stole his parrot. He was disappointed that he couldn't burn their water. So he invented fluorine.

The present expert paper was submitted in December 2004 by Forum experts Ole Henrik Magga, Ida Nicolaisen and Mililani Trask, and two outside experts, Dr. Tove Skutnabb Kangas, Roskilde University, Denmark, and Åbo Akademi University Vasa, Finland and Robert Dunbar, Reader in Law and Celtic, King's College, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

This is a field trip going on. And so they would be shopping, and they might be more likely to buy some lard, or millet for their parrot, or, you know, a hook, or hook protector for nighttime, all of these things we sell.

Howard's about this high, and he's round, and he's in his 60s, and he has big huge glasses and thinning grey hair, and he has a kind of wonderful exuberance and vitality, and he has a parrot, and he loves the opera, and he's a great aficionado of medieval history.

I came directly here from the deep, deep tropical rainforest in Ecuador, where I was out you could only get there by a plane with indigenous people with paint on their faces and parrot feathers on their headdresses, where these people are fighting to try and keep the oil companies, and keep the roads, out of their forests.