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• n  usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
• n  a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
• v  repeat mindlessly
  The students parroted the teacher's words

• Arnold Kling, riffing on something I wrote the other day about the end of investment banking as we've known it, writes: I think of securitization as like the dead parrot in the .
• Later she acquires a parrot.
• Ordinarily, a good parrot is one whose vocabulary is extensive but not obscene; a bad parrot, one who curses or bites.

News & Articles

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• Restoring Trees to Save the World's Rarest Parrot
  National Geographic explorer Steve Boyes talks about his work to pull the Cape parrot back from the brink of oblivion.
  June 15, 2013 - National Geographic
• Feathery fan: Parrot learns 'Go Spurs Go' chant
  SAN ANTONIO -- The "Go Spurs Go" chant is heard loud and clear throughout San Antonio, even among the team's most feathery fans. YouTube user Britty894 posted a video on June 6, 2013 of her pet parrot repeating the team's war cry next to a mini Spurs basketball hoop. "My grey loves the spurs!" the author said about the video. Watch the YouTube video below to see for yourself!
  June 13, 2013 - KENS 5 San Antonio
• Fourth annual Parrot Festival this weekend
  BELLE FOURCHE — The Black Hills Parrot Welfare and Education Center will hold its fourth annual Parrot Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 15, and Sunday, June 16, in Belle Fourche.
  June 12, 2013 - Black Hills Pioneer

Quotes

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• Ian Campbell in The Australian
  My concern with the initial wind farm proposal was the risks posed to the threatened orange-bellied parrot which I believed were unacceptable,Senator Campbell said.
• Stephen Harper in Toronto Star
  Look, we know we're going to hear these critics. We know we're going to hear the Opposition parrot some of these critics because they all believe in soft-on-crime policies,Harper told reporters.
• Ben Bradshaw in Sydney Morning Herald
  Bradshaw said in a BBC radio interview the British government had been considering such a ban "for some time before the death of the parrot. It just so happens that the formal request has been made now."