Parrots

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Clare Ansberry, Polly Want a Xanax? Neurotic Parrots Can Drive Their Owners Crazy; 'They scream, bite and are messy,' but only dogs and cats are more popular. Wall Street Journal, Sept 5, 2017 (front page).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pol ... rs-crazy-1504548232
http://www.cetusnews.com/life/Po ... ---.B1QreFMsYW.html

Note:
(a) "parrots—the most popular pets behind dogs and cats * * * Dawn Martine * * * runs the Parrot Education Adoption, Rehoming League, or Pearl, a nonprofit rescue organization that does its best to find new homes for unwanted birds * * * Ms Martine, who has 12 parrots, including two Moluccan cockatoos, the loudest parrot on Earth, whose piercing scream can he heard up to 5 miles away. * * * Unlike goldfish, parrots live up to about 60 years. There are reports of parrot centenarians * * * Pittsburgh-based Pearl"
(i) salmon-crested cockatoo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon-crested_cockatoo
(aka Moluccan cockatoo)
(ii) Maluku Islands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maluku_Islands
(or the Moluccas; The islands were known as the Spice Islands due to the nutmeg, mace and cloves that were originally exclusively found there; section 1 Etymology)

, whose largest island is Seram.

Moluccan cockatoo
(iii) parrot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot
(The order is subdivided into three superfamilies [but I fail to find the differences between Psittacoidea ("true" parrots) and Cacatuoidea (cockatoos)]; map)

* from the Web: "most parrots are classified as being diurnal."
(iv)
(A) from the Web: "The average life span of a pet goldfish is five to 10 years. In the wild, they can live as long as 25 years. In fact, the oldest goldfish ever recorded was 43 years old."
(B) Oldest Goldfish Has His Chips. BBC, Aug 7, 19999
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/414114.stm
(Dead at 43 in a fishbowl, "Tish the [male] goldfish achieved fame late in life after being recognised by the Guinness Book of Records only last year")
* Tish is a feminine given name shortened from Latin
laetitia (noun feminine)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/laetitia
* have had your chips: "UK informal ​ to have lost your position, importance, or power"
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ ... have-had-your-chips

Origin unknown.

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(b) "Barbara Heidenreich [of] Austin, Texas * * * offers webinars, workshops and videos [about parrots] * * * Ms Heidenreich assisted authorities in New Zealand, where a very rare kakapo parrot named Sirocco was captured on a YouTube video attacking a sanctuary visitor and trying to mate with his head. Using positive reinforcement, Ms Heidenreich redirected Sirocco's affections to a Croc shoe instead."
(i) webinar (n): "a seminar conducted over the Internet"
https://moonmicrosystem1.wordpre ... 15/what-is-webinar/
(ii) kakapo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakapo
(the word is Maori; world's only flightless parrot, the heaviest parrot, nocturnal, herbivorous; section 2 Description)
(iii) Shagged by a Rare Parrot - Last Chance To See. YouTube.com, published by BBC on Sept 29, 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY

* shag (vt; late 18th century: of unknown origin): "British vulgar slang  have sex with (someone)"https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/shag
(iv) Training Sirocco the Kakapo to Redirect Sexual Behavior. YouTube.com, published by Barbara Heidenreich on Nov 15, 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rgs72JIdx4
(v) Crocs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocs

(c) "A green wing macaw, with a wingspan of 47 inches, needs a cage the size of a queen mattress."

red-and-green macaw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-and-green_macaw
(or green-winged macaw; Ara chloropterus; South America; table -->  Family: Psittacidae; "In terms of length, this species is second only in size to the hyacinth macaw, the largest of the macaws. The red-and-green macaw attains a total body length of 90 to 95 cm (35 to 37 in) in adults")

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(d) "Cooking in Teflon pans is discouraged"
(i) Teflon is trademark for polytetrafluoroethlyene (PTFE).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene
(ii) Laura Wade, The Dangers of Teflon/PTFE for Birds. undated
http://buffalobirdnerd.com/clients/8963/documents/Teflon.pdf
(birds are sensitive to PTFE)

(e) "Edward Moats * * * his grandmother, Myrtle, who lived on a farm and bred canaries.* * * he takes in special-needs parrots * * * Lucy, one of his parrots, had been through several foster homes. 'She carried a lot of baggage,' he says"
(i) Myrtus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtus
(Myrtus, with the common name myrtle, is a genus of flowering plants)
(ii) What Does 'Carry So Much Baggage' Mean? The Phrase Finder, Nov 13, 2003.
www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/26/messages/103.html

(f) "Ms. Martine has been working with Charlie, a blue-and-gold macaw * * * Caesar, an umbrella cockatoo, is especially social. * * * She got her first bird, a little cockatiel, when she was 14."
(i) blue-and-yellow macaw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-and-yellow_macaw
(Ara ararauna, South America; Family: Psittacidae)
(ii) white cockatoo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_cockatoo
(Cacatua alba; also known as the umbrella cockatoo; head crest, which has a semicircular shape (similar to an umbrella, hence the alternative name) )
(iii) cockatiel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatiel
(Nymphicus hollandicus; endemic to Australia; Family: Cacatuidae)