Friendly Feathers: Life With Pierre, an African Grey Parrot

by Fran Smith, Deon Matzen (Illustrator)

For bird lovers young and old, this book demonstrates the relationship between one parrot and his family. Pierre, the African grey, says greetings, makes contact calls, requests food, comments on events, and even gives commands to the poodle. Do parrots and other birds in the wild use specific sounds to communicate the same messages in bird sounds? Ornithologists have found that birds do "talk" to each other in their own way. Deon Matzen's charming illustrations bring Pierre to life in this delightfully illustrated account of the bird's communication to his family.

32 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2008