 After he repeated that performance three or four times, I put him up for fear that, in need for approval, he would injure himself. I'd really like to have a bird. I have no desire for a cockatoo or macaw or yellow-headed amazon. I care not to keep an animal with the intelligence and emotional maturity of a three-year-old human around that is armed with a beak that can outperform tin snips. I like my digits right where they are. But peach-faced lovebirds? Paralettes?