Bird Dictionary Links

Book review: 'Alex & Me' (International Herald Tribune)

Irene M. Pepperberg writes about her three-decade-long relationship with Alex, the parrot who could identify objects by their color, size and material, and do basic addition.

WORD UP (Bluffton Today)

Bluffton Today’s many Jedi readers no doubt felt a great disturbance in the Force a while back, as if millions of English teachers cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Talkin' turkey (The Columbus Dispatch)

We all know about turkey, right? ■ Most of us -- 88 percent, according to the National Turkey Federation -- will sit down Thursday and dine on the bird, careful to avoid topics such as politics, religion and the Bowl Championship Series lest Uncle Carl embark on a long, winding tirade that stretches through coffee and dessert. ■ Anyway, the bird that we stuff and then stuff down our gullets has ...

Doug Clark: Professor Pilgrim offers sage advice (The Spokesman-Review)

Happy Thanksgiving and welcome to our third installment of Ask Professor Pilgrim. Once again, the Professor is filling in for Doug Clark, who has already lapsed into an alcohol-induced state of holiday indolence.

`ALEX': A PARROT WHOSE PASSING THE WORLD MOURNED (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

When Alex the African gray parrot died in 2007, the world mourned. The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe ran articles reviewing his life achievements.