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Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Featuring colorful, comic-style artwork, an introduction to parrots is presented through humorous text complemented by engaging facts, from how parrots see ultraviolet light to how they can identify colors in human language.
2) Parakeets
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
©2009, ©2008.
Language
English
Description
Discusses a parakeet as a pet and the care needed.
Author
Series
Blastoff! readers volume 4
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Written for young people but good for any parakeet owner to show how to take care of their pet bird. You will also learn some interesting facts. Did you know that a parakeet's beak never stops growing and that pecking a cuttle bone not only gives them extra nutrition but helps to keep the beak at a healthy length. Also, the daily care of a prakeet is very important and this will also help young people to learn the responsibility of pet ownership....
7) Los loros
Author
Series
Publisher
Tadpole
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Engage your earliest readers with these nonfiction animal introductions! In Parrots, emergent readers learn how parrots fly, eat, and live in the rain forest. Carefully crafted text, high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers. Parrots includes tools for caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, index, and review questions....
8) Parrots
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this book, early fluent readers will learn how parrots get their colorful feathers and how their colors help them attract mates, warn off predators and rivals, and camouflage. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about parrots, their habitat, behaviors, and science behind their amazing, bright colors. An infographic aids understanding, and an activity offers readers an opportunity to...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In studying the intelligence of animals, most scientist had come to the conclusion that the bigger the brain, the greater the intelligence, so much work was geared towards apes, dolphins and other large animals. In 1977 a graduate student named Irene Pepperberg did not believe this to be true, so she bought an African Grey Parrot which has a brain the size of a walnut and began to train him teaching him to count, add, and subtract, to recognize shapes,...
10) Cézanne's parrot
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
All Cezanne wants is to be a great painter like his friends Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir. But when he shows his works, the professors, the critics, and the collectors all dismiss him: "Too flat!" "Too much paint!" "These are rough and unfinished!" Even his own pet parrot, Bisou, can't be brought to say, "Cezanne is a great painter!" And who can blame them? Cezanne doesn't care about tradition, and he doesn't follow the rules. He's painting in a way...
11) Birds
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Birds, including crows and parrots, have amazing minds. Scientists are discovering these animals have a mind-blowing range of abilities and emotions. With this new insight, they can better understand birds-and our world! A table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, scientist spotlight, and sidebars are included in this title"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
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Description
"A combined history of the Puerto Rican parrot and the island of Puerto Rico, highlighting current efforts to save the Puerto Rican parrot by protecting and managing this endangered species"--Provided by publisher.
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