Parrots are not only eye-pleasing and great-looking birds, they are bright, attractive and rather wit pets, they are parts of tropical paradise at your own home. They seem to be usual and nice, but I am ready to bet – the following facts will definitely surprise you.

• While eating, birds hold food in one of their feet, so there are left and right handed parrots; 
• Parrots, I am talking about pets, are amazing at mimicking. They can easily imitate your speech, tones and sounds;
• Wild Macaws and Cockatoos can fly not less than 500 miles in a day. Poor birds simply search for food.
• Large parrots can live more than 75 years;
• Parrots are strictly forbidden to eat chocolate because it is poisonous to their body;
• Unfortunately, more than 90 percent of the parrots imported into the United States are wild caught;
• There are 315 species of parrot in the world;
• These birds weigh from just a few ounces to 3½ pounds;
• In wild parrots live in nests and in flocks;
• A lot of parrot species found in the Western Hemisphere are threatened with extinction.

Hope this information was useful!