World Parrot Day is celebrated annually on May 31st. It is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate these attractive birds. There are many threats to the population and wellbeing of parrots. Habitat loss, climate change, and wildlife trade are some of the main threats. Many parrot species are in decline. There are over 350 different kinds of parrots but most live in tropical and subtropical regions of the Southern Hemisphere.
To be classified as a parrot, the bird must have a curved beak, and its feet must be zygodactyl, which means there are four toes on each foot with two toes that point forward and two that point backward. Common parrots are parakeets, macaws, cockatoos and cockatiels. Australia has an amazing number of very colourful parrots.
For a display in the library I would put out these books two books to start with and then add.
• Kakapo Rescue by Sy Montgomery
• The Parrot Tico Tango by Anna Witte
• Parrots by Valerie Bodden
• Two Parrots by Rumi Rashin
• The Parrot and the Merchant by Pippa Goodhart and Marjan Vafaian
• A Pandemonium of Parrots by Kate Baker and Hui Skipp
• Papagayo by Gerald McDermott
• Petunia Paris's Parrot by Katie Haworth and Jo Williamson
• The Cocky Who Cried Dingo by Yvonne Morrison and Heath McKenzie
• Pepi Sings a New Song by Laura Ljungkvist
• Harold Finds His Voice by Courtney Dicmas
• Hello Jimmy! by Anna Walker
• Pardon Me! by Daniel Miyares
• Mango, Abuela and Me by Meg Medina and Angela Dominguez
• Cezanne's Parrot by Amy Guglielmo and Brett Helquist
• Town Parrot by Penelope Bennett and Sue Heap
• Pedro the Puerto Rican Parrot by Beverly Jatwani and Sunita Chawdhary
• Polly Parrot Picks a Pirate by Peter Bently and Penny Dann
• The Gossipy Parrot by Shen Roddie and Michael Terry
• I Said Nothing: the Extinction of the Paradise Parrot by Gary Crew and Mark Wilson
If you do not have many parrot books, remember there'll be in a lot of parrots in pirate books!
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