parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any
debutante, with a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown
potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil,
bananas and human thumb." Probably the most common reason for
people giving up their parrot is being bitten. Parrots bite,
period! If you acquire a parrot of any size, from parakeet to
macaw, you are going to be bitten. Not once, not twice, but
many, many times over the lifespan of the bird. Birds bite in a
couple of different ways and for a whole myriad of Just because
a bird laid it's beak on you doesn't mean it bit you. Birds
employee 4 forms of "biting". The first form of bite is not
really a bite at all. Birds in the wild will commonly grab a
branch in their beak to test it for strength before stepping on
it. They also use their beak to steady themselves as they climb
or move from branch to branch. To the uninitiated, this can
appear to be an attempt to bite and the instinctive reaction is
to pull away. Unfortunately, this is