Reply #2: I loved it!

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Thanks for posting that. That was really sad about the baby that died. It's amazing any of them live having nests in the ground and stuff, wow.



A beautiful story, I love reading stuff like this.

This story about a cockatoo is one of my favorites.
http://www.amazon.com/Charlies-World-Improbable-Adventures-Cockatoo/dp/0967290929

"Charlie was probably kidnapped by a sailor in the Australian outback and traded to an opium peddler in Hong Kong, where he was rescued from abuse by the author. He returned her kindness with 25 years of clowning and instruction in the remarkable ways of parrot kind. He traveled the world with the Topping family and their entourage of children and animals before they settled in Scarsdale, New York. In this suburb he put down roots, as it were, and excavated himself a tree house in the family garden. Along the way he learned to speak several languages including Chinese, English, Spanish and Crow (the bird kind). He was self-educated and acquired his unusual knowledge on a need-to-know basis."



It is about Charlie the Cockatoo. Audrey Topping was in Hong Kong and saw him on the street; apparently he was speaking Chinese words and when he saw her, starting speaking English words to her without any prompting. She was so taken with him she bought him and brought him home to live with her family. Unfortunately it has a sad ending, but he has lots of adventures along the way. (Yes, I love animals stories, lol.)