- more parrots are kept in homes than live in nature?
- most parrots must change their masters more than five times?
- a parrot usually outlives its owner?
- parrots have feelings of love, hatred and jealousy and are able to express them?
- a parrot needs a natural partner?
- many parrot owners only develop an allergy to a parrot only after several years?
- lots of parrots go mad because they are kept alone?
- two parrots have to die for one who stays alive and is imported?
- a parrot needs at least eight hours of affection each day?
- parrots are the most endangered species among all birds?
- a neighbour next flat must give his consent to the keeping of parrots?
- in spring nearly all parrots screech for a partner that never turns up?
- severe problems of keeping parrots at home do not obviously arise before three or four years (after sexual maturity)?
- even in winter parrots prefer living outside in an aviary to being in a living-room?
- 90 % of all parrots kept in homes have to suffer from aspergillosis (a lung desease) due to the dry air in living rooms?
- a plucked parrot — if this happens at all — needs two years until it has all its feathers again?
- parrots choose their partners themselves and will then never be unfaithful?
- only ten out of hundred parrots are able (or will learn) to speak?
- Most parrots spend all their lifetime in a cage the size of only half a square metre? This is comparable to man being forced to spend 30-40 years of his life in a room the size of a toilet!
- most parrots do not get adequate nourishment?
- a parrots costs betwenn 150 and 50.000 Euros and is often kept as a status symboll?