Tiny Parrots!

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The world’s smallest parrot has been filmed in the wild for the first time.

The tiny bird, which is not much bigger than an adult person’s thumb, is smaller than some of the insects with which it shares the forest.

An expedition team filming in Papua New Guinea for the BBC programme Lost Land of the Volcano caught two of the buff-faced pygmy parrots on camera.

Another adult, which weighs less than half an ounce, was also trapped by the expedition team’s bird expert.

On average, buff-faced pygmy parrots (Micropsitta pusio) stand less than 9cm tall and weigh 11.5g (0.41oz).

I’m sure devoted birding listers will be packing and pushing off to New Guinea as we speak, but with birds that cute, I doubt that exotic pet smugglers will be far behind them.

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The twitchers are all coming to Virginia to see the Sand Plover in Augusta County.

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Did ye see the giant rat from the some documentary..scary.

Slan,
D. :boggle:

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Are you in Virginia? I saw two of those beautiful Cardinals? The red birds? They are gorgeous.

The picture just looks like budgies. My uncle used to breed them.
It’s not April 1st is it?

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Budgies are about twice the length and three times the mass of these little guys. I currently have about eight soaked Cardinals wondering the yard right this moment. If I had a few more I could have a college.

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Praline: Next we have number four, ‘crunchy parrot’.

Milton: Ah, yes.

Praline: Am I right in thinking there’s a real parrot in here?

Milton: Yes. A little one.

Praline: What sort of parrot?

Milton: A dead parrot.

Praline: Is it cooked?

Milton: No.

Praline: What, a raw parrot?

Milton: We use only the finest baby buff-faced pygmy parrots, dew picked and flown from Papua New Guinea, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.

Praline: That’s as maybe, it’s still a parrot.

Milton: What else?

Praline: Well don’t you even take the bones out?

Milton: If we took the bones out, it wouldn’t be crunchy would it?

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Eww! Where did you get that?!? Is there no end to your stock of . . . of . . . well, I don’t know what it is . . . but is there no end to it? Hmm?

They do look a bit like budgies, except that they look like parrots.

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I wonder how many “specimens” they took? Need to add to the study skin collection.

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Lambchop - that’s Monty Python at their finest…a lovely skit. Spring surprise, if I recall correctly, also was a choice.

Eric

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I thought it might be Monty Python. It has that cadence and gonzo always seems to know where to find some relevant bit.

Don’t they have the cutest little beaks!

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See him! I used to work for him!

Bastard.

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They found a total of three - one pair and a single. I don’t think they took any.

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although in the original sketch, it was “crunchy frog”.

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I’ll take “The Bloody Obvious” for $500, Alex.

It was a perfectly logical thought process – tiny parrots => dead parrots => monty python => crunchy frogs => crunchy parrots – executed in milliseconds by the all too powerful gonzonian brain cells (both of them).

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Sounds like an inflammation or giant cell, whatever, prednisone will fix that right up.

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I specialize in the bleedin’ obvious. It’s surprising to so many people.

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That isn’t gonna make it non-crunchy is it?

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Doesn’t impact taste nor texture, but there may be an inadvertent improvement in batting scores.

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Might see an improvement in accuracy with the whip then, eh!

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Hopefully, the journey involved will discourage poaching.

On the other comment, I saw Ratzilla last night on Animal Planet. Man…huge rats from Africa in Florida and nutrias from S. America. Groooooosssss!!! Their only virtue is that they are slow enough to shoot.