The Blue Parrot Fan Club

The blue parrot displays his heroics by showing up and doing his deed all at once and out of sight, like a spy. You never know where he is or what he is doing, but when you see him something remarkable has happened.

Blue made the congress designate the Everglades as a National Park. He was in the Whitehouse on the day that the Dry Taurtougas were designated a National Wildlife Sanctuary, flying in, grabbing that specific document, and flying it accross the room to the top of the pile so that it was next in line for the president to sign. Blue was responsible for sounding the alarm during a hurricane of the impending tidal surge saving hundreds of tourists on a tropical beach. . .

Blue shows up and there he is and then he is gone, all at once, off into the day doing what he does.

Blue lands on the roof of a school and throws his voice to coax a girl over to a boy who has a crush on her. They fall in love.

Blue lands near a Cuban leader and throws his voice and avoids nuclear catastrophy.

Blue flys through a chapel at the end of the wedding.

And all of the time there is Blue's foil.

All said with a parrot voice:

"I'm a rock star"

Authors note: I don't know a lot about parrots and haven't been around them that much. And thus it is hard for me to imagine how they should act. I have this parrot as the classic hero. And in that respect I could just fake it. But it would be better if I had a sense of how parrots behave and how they should act.

"Honey, I got you some straw."

The parrot rushes along the ground carrying a saphire necklace in his beak. "Look what I brung you."

"We just need straw." she tells him.

Next we see him descending on a woman and placing the necklace on a table in front of her. I would have Blue placing the necklace around her neck, but that just seems so fanciful. It couldn't have happened like that.

"I brought you some straw."

The 'parrot' from the picture that I took in the Everglades was actually a Purple Gallinule.

I found a lot of very interesting information about these birds on the web. They are considered shy. They are game birds. Their children are not as colorful. I even saw a video of one of them walking. There was a video of two of them mating. They live in marshes much like where I saw this one (pictured above). One site said these birds are 'rare'. One site seemed to show that they can also live in New England.

"I'm not a frigging Parrot" Blue says.

"Hey, honey, I brought you some straw."

Blue walked along the lilly pads and searched the water for small fish.

He sees a tourist.

"You can't look at ME." he thinks as he runs below the pier. "Frigging paparazzi follow me everywhere." he squacks.

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