I visited a house where the owner had a parrot. She let it out of the cage and it landed on me. I went to stroke it and it latched onto my forefinger with its beak. They don't half hang on...
It's amazing how they can speak. Some birds are very clever. I remember being invited in house, a friend of my sister, he & his wife had loads of birds, some parrots were flying around freely. The wife had put out all these fancy cakes on the table, in same room, with a tea. I never did take a cake!..