Parrots have excellent color vision and can see more shades of color than humans!
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Facts About Parrots
The heaviest flying parrot is the Hyacinth Macaw, which can weigh up to 3.7 pounds (1.7 kg)!
Parrots have special blood vessels in their feet that help them stay warm in cold weather!
The smallest parrot egg is only about the size of a jellybean!
Some parrots can fly as high as small airplanes — up to 6,000 feet (1.83 kilometers) in the air!
The Blue-and-yellow Macaw can exert a beak pressure of over 500 pounds per square inch!
Some parrots can learn to whistle entire songs perfectly!
The Night Parrot of Australia is so rare that it was thought to be extinct for over 100 years!
Parrots can taste spicy foods but don’t find them hot like humans do!
Some parrots can learn to sort objects by color, shape, and size!
The Great Green Macaw’s wings can span wider than a grown person’s arms — up to 4 feet (1.2 meters)!
Parrots can remember which humans have been kind to them for many years!
Some parrots in cities have learned to imitate the sounds of car alarms and phone ringtones perfectly!
Some parrots have learned to open complex locks by watching humans do it!
The Blue-fronted Amazon Parrot can change its pupil size to show different emotions!
Some parrots can remember and avoid foods that made them sick even years later!
The Gang-gang Cockatoo makes a sound like a creaky door when it calls!
Some parrots can learn to recognize and respond to written words!
Parrots are one of the few animals that show clear signs of being right-handed or left-handed, preferring to use one foot over the other!
The Kea parrot lives in snowy mountain regions of New Zealand and is the world’s only alpine parrot!
