LOOK OUT BE-LOOOOW...Lance Brady's Hahn's macaw, Daisy, gives fair warning to anyone who might be walking under her perch in Ventura, Calif.

A KISS FOR BILLY. Lesley Ireland and her husband, Gary, lost their Solomon Island eclectus to a chronic illness soon after this photo was taken.

FIGGY MORNING. Caiques JoJo and Chickie politely take turns nibbling an organic fig provided by their owner, Saroj of Bono, Fla.

CAN'T GET A GRIP. Storm, a Congo African grey owned by Anne and Mike Hainsworth of Durham, N.C., tries to grab a stream of bathwater.

DON'T HATE ME BECAUSE I'M BEAUTIFUL. Snowpea the budgie assumes a striking pose against green foliage in his back yard in New South Wales. His owner is Phillip Alphonse.

POST-TRAVEL SNACK. Napoleon, a Congo African grey owned by Mike Stevenson of Teague, has a bite to eat on her carrier after returning home from an outing.

CHRISTMAS IN FLORIDA. Ziggy, a cockatiel, roughs the weather in the sunny south Florida back yard of his owner, Aly.

ONE OF US IS DIFFERENT. Shiloh, an 8-week-old African grey owned by Robin Wood of Mechanicsville, Md., tries to make sense of his stand-in clutchmates.

AND A SOLOMON ISLAND ECLECTUS IN A FIR TREE. Diane Thomas' bird, Baby, makes like an ornament on a snowy day in the mountains near Indio, Calif.

MY DEAR WATSON. Judi Livingston of Dover, N.H., recently adopted this stately looking English budgie.

ANYBODY GOT A BAR CODE READER? Sunny the sun conure checks out the quality of a new cage bought by his owner, Dee Pettingill of Midwest City, Okla.

PARTY LIKE IT'S 2008. Solo, cockatoo owned by Kristy Thomas of West Allis, Wisc., does his best Keith Richards impression.

I SAW A WOODPECKER DO THIS ONCE. BB, a cockatiel owned by Jessica of Malibu, Calif., clings to the trunk of a palm tree.

ALL IN A KNOT. Tiki the African grey, owned by Susan Weber of Little Ferry, N.J., has trouble untying his spaghetti dinner.

YOU PUT YOUR RIGHT FOOT IN. Sasha, a severe macaw owned by Christian Salas, grabs a tail feather for preening.

WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK? African grey Katie finds that a down feather makes a jaunty hat. She lives with Debbie Botha of Johannesburg, South Africa.

THEM? OH, THOSE ARE MY FOLKS. Olly, an orange-wing Amazon, poses against a framed photograph of the Hudsons of Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom.

LOOK ME IN THE EYE WHEN YOU SAY THAT. Mishka, a Senegal parrot owned by Rick of Newbury Park, Calif., takes a head on approach.

AND WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T LOOK DOWN! Deb Ohlgren's fun-loving sun conure, Fiesta, lives up to her name.

DO THESE FEATHERS MAKE MY HEAD LOOK BIG? Sammy, a lilac-crown Amazon who lives with Victoria Bryant of Eads, Tenn., is not sure he likes the extra 10 pounds the camera adds.

BRIGHT, SHINY THINGS. Angela Reeves' blue Pacific parrotlet, DoodleBug, enjoys the big-link chains in his cage.

I THOUGHT I SAID NO OLIVES! Ed Padget's mealy Amazon, Isabella, tussles with an empty cardboard pizza box.

MY HOUSE IS A VERY VERY VERY NICE HOUSE. Cutie Pie, a Fischer's love bird, "sleeps in his little tent every night," says his owner, Susan Weber of Little Ferry, N.J.

YOU SAW ME DO WHAT? Minnie, a black-cap conure who lives in Seatac, Wash., with April Chavez, is taken aback by what Santa knows.

CONURE LOVE. Alero and Ares, owned by Scott Cochrane and Savannah Collins of St. John's, Newfoundland, dance cheek to green cheek.

I'M A SPICY MEATBALL! This nansun conure owned by Rachel of Grand Ridge, Ill., is named Cayenne.

EXCUSE ME, BUT YOUR FINGER IS IN MY EAR. Pixi, a budgie owned by Alexandre P. of Quebec, gets scratched just the way he likes.

COOKIE MONSTER. Belinda Pye of Canberra, Australia, snapped a shot of her cockatiel, cookie, just as she let out a ferocious yawn.

BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE. Emily Gough's black-headed caique, Higgins, watches a North Carolina snowstorm outside his window.

I AM DUNCAN; AND YOU? Carl and Tammy's blue-and-gold macaw is 12 years old.

THAT HITS THE SPOT. Aptly named Darwin, a green-cheek conure belonging to Jamie Powell of Austin, uses a molted tail feather to scratch himself.

COULD YOU GIVE A GUY SOME SPACE HERE? Sunkist the lovebird crowds out his pal, Batman. They live with Marlene Lucas of Miami Lakes, Fla.

DANDELION'S DILEMMA. "One night she was helping me sew," said Jen Haubrich of her budgie, "and I tried to convince her the thimble is to be worn on the head. The result? A photo I generally title, 'This is not a hat!'"

I'VE NEVER FELT LOVE LIKE THIS BEFORE! Suki the Quaker parakeet exults in his affection for Laura Brown of Bryan, Ohio.

IT'S YOU. Jazzy, a blue parakeet, nuzzles "the love of his life," Maui. Their owner is Alexandra.

SIDE SADDLE? NOTHING TO IT. Lucky, a budgie owned by Norma Royston of Houston, shows how easy it is to perch on a pony.

BEDAZZLED. Raja, a sun conure owned by Kathy Couch of Lincoln, Ark., seems mesmerized by Christmas garland.

FOND FAREWELL. Xochitl Valdovinos of Santa Ana, Calif., enjoyed his Patagonia conure for 13 years before Rocky died in September.

RIGHT IN THE BASKET. Beginning flyer Kougaiji, a Pacific parrotlet owned by Lindsay Moose of Statesville, N.C., missed his perch and landed in a tiny Easter decoration.

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