Derren Brown

I went to a party when I was a student and they had a mynah bird up in the bedroom where people put their coats. I was completely captivated - I just sat there all night talking to it. The next day I passed a pet shop and they had a conure - it's a little parakeet - in the window. I bought it, not knowing what it was or how to look after it.

English Entertainer

Jim Parsons

I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.

American Actor

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Bruce Liddington, who has died aged 70, was the most exotic creature in the Department for Education in the 2000s. In a land of fairly staid civil servants, Bruce had flair and the panache of a brilliant parakeet.

British Politician

Roz Chast

I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He's 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He's very cute, but he's getting old.

American Cartoonist

Mauricio Pochettino

It motivates me, being a parakeet and living for so many years in Barcelona. Going back to the city is always something nice, and playing against Barca, too.

Argentinian Athlete

Arthur Miller

I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone.

American Playwright

Parakeets are commonly recognized as pets and may elicit a friendly, domestic image.

Pet Association

The term emphasizes their vibrant colors, which can signify joy or energy in conversations.

Colorful Appearance

Parakeets are known for their chirping, an attribute often used in descriptive language.

Frequent Sounds

The word parakeet encompasses a range of bird species, indicating diversity.

Diverse Species

Adding a geographic qualifier (e.g., Australian) specifies the parakeet's origin.

Geographic Origins

Discussing parakeets in natural habitats can be a gateway to environmental topics.

Natural Habitats

 go we won I figured it out look at me good thanks so technologically advanced Sam you thank you so much for drawing this I'm trying to guess what it is is it a green African green pigeon or is it a parakeet I'm not actually sure you're going to have to tell me which one it is but well then I couldn't decide who was the winner between the two of you because

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 the synapsids and sauropsids. Synapsida is the group of animals that contain mammals, while sauropsida is the group that contains reptiles, birds, and dinosaurs. These two amniotic groups collectively contain the walruses, rattlesnakes, and parakeets we know today. Like a family reunion, with relatives of every shape and size,

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 War, and even more so after the Second World War. The plants just took over. and one of those main ones is the Sycamore, just because it's such a fast growing species. Shall we see if we can find some of those parrots, those parakeets, if we can find the parakeets, we might be able to find some of their nest holes.

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 that can produce passenger pigeon squabs that can be raised by band-tailed pigeon parents, and then from then on, it's passenger pigeons all the way, maybe for the next six million years. You can do the same thing, as the costs come down, for the Carolina parakeet, for the great auk,

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 Monk parakeets, for example, live in large colonies and have individualized contact calls that help them stand out. Yellow-naped Amazon parrots, on the other hand, forage in smaller groups that learn and share highly similar contact calls.

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 How certain were you that you had it right, that you had put it together in the right way? Was there a potential that you'd put it together a different way and have, like, a parakeet or something? Um, no. No, we got this.

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 passenger pigeon or a Carolina parakeet or a Heath hen or a grey dog I would love that but that just might take our eye off the ball see we have all these species that are a lot right now going extinct if we get the

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 get a lot of northern flickers we've recently received a parakeet so that obviously escaped from someone's house that's a baby chipmunk Wow our collection exists in the digital world

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 we all have different strokes this uh but it is for the birds try to save the birds we just think about it we lost the Carolina parakeet because we

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 third was cherished pet is equally playful the common parakeet better known