Of Parrots and People

[Sevi]

Mods, feel free to move this to wherever you believe it seems fit. I struggled with where to put it and ultimately decided here. It doesn't just pertain to greys, it's not a training book, it didn't seem to fit with the O/T section and it is about parrots as a whole so...

 

Of Parrots and People: The Sometimes Funny, Always Fascinating, and Often Catastrophic Collision of Two Intelligent Species.

Mira Tweti.

http://www.amazon.ca/Parrots-People-Mira-Tweti/dp/0670019690/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235315869&sr=8-1

 

I was in one of my local bookstores and happened upon this book by fluke. I read the cover flaps and decided it would be probably be worth my time and picked it up.

 

I enjoyed it, it was a decent read and definitely recommendable. It wasn't anything hard-hitting, but it did a really nice job of outlining the various facets of interactions between parrots and humans. She wrote particularly passionately about the smuggling of parrots and the bureaucratic red-tape that makes it difficult to end. The lack of governmental regulation was a running theme. She covered the commercial parrot enterprise - of which I have witnessed some aspects of first hand, CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species), rescue operations and sanctuaries and the allure of owning a parrot among other subjects.

 

It would have been nice if her final chapter "Repercussions, Ramifications, and Solutions," was fleshed-out a little more. She dealt with a wealth of material and I felt some of it could have used a more solution-driven approach. Nonetheless, it was worth the change, or at least worth the read. It's not often you find "expose" books on the parrot plight.

[Luvparrots]

Sevi, thanks for the heads up on "Of Parrots and People." Will see if I can find it at the local library. Sounds interesting!!!

[Sevi]

It definitely was. Hope you find it at the library