Comments on: Animal Heroics: Parrot Honored for Saving Choking Baby http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/24/animal-heroics-parrot-honored-for-saving-choking-baby/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:07:52 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jal33l http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/24/animal-heroics-parrot-honored-for-saving-choking-baby/comment-page-1/#comment-23043 Jal33l Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:14:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/24/animal-heroics-parrot-honored-for-saving-choking-baby/#comment-23043 Quit whining nerd. Quit whining nerd.

]]> By: Siobhan Ruck http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/24/animal-heroics-parrot-honored-for-saving-choking-baby/comment-page-1/#comment-21886 Siobhan Ruck Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:52:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/24/animal-heroics-parrot-honored-for-saving-choking-baby/#comment-21886 Willie is a Quaker Parakeet (aka Monk Parakeet), a native of South America. They have established large colonies of the birds in some US cities. Google Images can provide pages and pages of images, some of them available for your use. The bird you show is an old-world species from the group that includes ring-necked, derbyan, mustache and plum headed parakeet (I'm not sure what that particular bird in the photo is). Bird lovers (and parrot lovers in particular) will read this story and we know the difference. It's better to run no picture than to run the wrong one. (yes, I know this is a trivial issue given the world today, but it's always best to be accurate.) Willie is a Quaker Parakeet (aka Monk Parakeet), a native of South America. They have established large colonies of the birds in some US cities. Google Images can provide pages and pages of images, some of them available for your use. The bird you show is an old-world species from the group that includes ring-necked, derbyan, mustache and plum headed parakeet (I’m not sure what that particular bird in the photo is).

Bird lovers (and parrot lovers in particular) will read this story and we know the difference. It’s better to run no picture than to run the wrong one. (yes, I know this is a trivial issue given the world today, but it’s always best to be accurate.)

]]> By: Rachel Cernansky http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/24/animal-heroics-parrot-honored-for-saving-choking-baby/comment-page-1/#comment-21864 Rachel Cernansky Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:37:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/24/animal-heroics-parrot-honored-for-saving-choking-baby/#comment-21864 Cathie, Thank you for pointing out the inaccurate representation of Willie in the above picture. We would have liked to use a photo of the real Willie, but most images are copyrighted. We would consider changing, but the link you posted seems to lead only to a map of Colorado. Cathie,
Thank you for pointing out the inaccurate representation of Willie in the above picture. We would have liked to use a photo of the real Willie, but most images are copyrighted. We would consider changing, but the link you posted seems to lead only to a map of Colorado.

]]> By: Cathie http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/24/animal-heroics-parrot-honored-for-saving-choking-baby/comment-page-1/#comment-21859 Cathie Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:59:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/24/animal-heroics-parrot-honored-for-saving-choking-baby/#comment-21859 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j1y4_C-CEf2O5mMV4uA19c96oJlAD973UN300 This is the correct picture. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j1y4_C-CEf2O5mMV4uA19c96oJlAD973UN300 This is the correct picture.

]]> By: Cathie http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/24/animal-heroics-parrot-honored-for-saving-choking-baby/comment-page-1/#comment-21858 Cathie Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:57:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/24/animal-heroics-parrot-honored-for-saving-choking-baby/#comment-21858 That is NOT an acurate picture of the little Quaker parrot that was honored in this story. That is NOT an acurate picture of the little Quaker parrot that was honored in this story.

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