Talk:African Grey Parrot

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Can anyone provide an authority for the claim that these parrots can imitate up to 5000 words? seglea 22:47, 30 May 2005 (UTC)i can mine sang eminem moking bird

It's vague. See Irene Pepperberg's reasearch on Alex for more info. But they're certainly very inteligent and they can asociate words to objects (I think that's more important than a big number of words)

I cannot understand why Mikkalai removed my edit: "Greys captured in the wild need time and effort to adapt to human presence, and have a tendency to growl. Hand-fed Greys generally make wonderful and very affectionate companions. Rastapopoulos 07:03, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Sorry. Restored. I cannot understand this myself. I looked into the history of my edits at this time period. I was tracking anon vandals from my watch list. Since wikipedia is a bit slowish, I usually open several windows for version comparisons. When this article was checked for suspect's contribs I most probably accidentally hit the "revert" button. I have absolutely no opinion about parrots and never edited pages about them. Sorry again. I will try harder to be more careful. mikka (t) 07:19, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Africal parrots need a special diet and need calcium suplements.

Contents 1 External links 2 CHECK OUT THE "AFRICAN GREYS AS PETS" SECTION 3 "African Grey Parrots as Pets" - "verifiable" sources 4 External links 5 Aging 6 I'd like to know... 7 Notice of import

[edit] External links

I have removed two links (Information about Timneh African Greys and Information about Congo African Greys) which are local sales page with some additional information. The info is limited, and the main thing is to contact people for buying or selling birds. I think they are unappropriate as links for an encyclopedia article, see WP:EL. KimvdLinde 20:15, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CHECK OUT THE "AFRICAN GREYS AS PETS" SECTION

Hey I recently restored the "African Grey Parrots as Pets" section of this article. Can anyone skilled in grammar and vocabulary check if the section's content contains any mistakes and enhance the section. By the way PLZ DON'T REMOVE THE INFORMATION ALREADY THERE. IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO GET THOSE AND THEY ARE FROM VERIFIABLE SOURCES. Birdeditor 21:31, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm unable to check your references for that section. Could you provide references from reputable online sources. Oh and PLEASE DON'T SHOUT, it's rude. --Dv82matt 00:38, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Take it easy birdeditor. If they are reliable and verifiable sources, it is not likely that they will be removed, unless it reads like a howto guide to Greys, in that case, it is unencyclopedic. -- Kim van der Linde ^{at venus} 00:46, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "African Grey Parrots as Pets" - "verifiable" sources

Most of the information available in that section is taken from www.itsagreysworld.com, that site itself is owned by an experienced owner of multiple African Greys all of whom receive great individual attention according to the site. The site is contains some useful and genuine information and is very informative. The few remaining other sources are miscellaneous, and the information left by the contributor before me is not deleted. Birdeditor 21:07, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links

I am again removing an external link that has ads, which makes it commercial. Forums, blogs, and bulletin boards are not good Wikipedia links either. Any domain that is added to multiple pages is spam. And the animal telepathy site is not encyclopedic.

Wikipedia is not a link farm. DO NOT RE-ADD YOUR SITE. If your page is so noteworthy that it should be an exception to the spam and linkfarm policies, find a couple admins to review your site. Then one of them can add it back with an invisible note that it was added after review by an administrator. If I see that, I will leave it, although I can't speak for all the Wikipedia Project Spam editors (WP:WPSPAM). But it would probably be better to add content to the page rather than links. Pollinator 16:37, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

The africangrayparrots.com link has been added to this page and many others. Recommend removing it if it reappears. Same IP has been vandalizing other pages and adding similar commercial links to other pages on fish and birds. DrNixon 04:48, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aging

I'd like to see a couple references to again, but I don't feel I have enough experience to do a major edit to an article such as this. Namely, I'm referring to the differences in appearance as CAG and TAG parrots age. After the first molt (around 12 months), tailfeathers grow back without black tips, but rather fully red. The iris slowly lightens from pure-black at hatch to bight yellow around 18 months. Also, vocalization in the form of human speech minicry typically develops around 12-18 months of age. Anybody feel up to it? Thadius856 18:46, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I'd like to know...

Would it be acceptable to play around with the idea of splitting this article up into more topics?

It seems "African Greys as Pets" is kind of a vague spectrum. In this portion of the article it covers history to care. I don't find it very organized at all.

I think perhaps it would be more appropriate if we seperated the article into a few different topics such as "Care and Grooming" (Or something like that) "Habits and Lifestyle" (You see what I'm getting at?)

I'm not saying any of the information should be dumped, but just seperated in a more organized way.

Anyone with me on this?

-Also, I may have pictures of baby CAGs if you think there is a place for them.

Best Regards Le Peregrine 21:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I think we should keep the article in one piece, like I noted on your talk page, but the "African Greys as Pets" section should be seperated into subsections. I have tons of pictures as well, but lets worry about that for when we have a long enough article to fit a couple more pictures. thadius856_talk 22:49, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notice of import

A copy of this article was moved to wikibooks using the Import tool (with all revisions). If this article was marked for copy to wikibooks or as containing how-to sections, it can now be safely rewritten.

If contributors are interested in expanding on the practical information that was in this article, please do so on the wikibooks side. For pointers on writing wikibooks, see Wikibooks:Wikibooks for Wikipedians. --SB_Johnny | ^talk | _books 13:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)