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Message 108917 - Posted: 4 Jul 2022, 20:20:10 UTC - in response to Message 108916.  

Ah, exactly the symptoms of a troll - looks down on everyone else and assumes to be better in every respect.
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Message 108918 - Posted: 4 Jul 2022, 20:21:03 UTC - in response to Message 108913.  

Oh please, stop feeding the anarchistic, contrarian troll.
The troll is only here to annoy, no other reasons.
Hijacking threads all over the place.


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Message 108920 - Posted: 4 Jul 2022, 20:33:43 UTC - in response to Message 108901.  

What proof are you offering the OED changes every 5 minutes?
Psst, 5 minutes doesn't always mean between 4 and 6 minutes.

Since the OED etymology was for well before your biology, it looks very much like you are speaking with a forked tongue out of both sides of your mouth.
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Message 108922 - Posted: 4 Jul 2022, 20:52:52 UTC - in response to Message 108921.  

No, it was YOU who said i was OK to change the meaning of words every five minutes.
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Message 108923 - Posted: 4 Jul 2022, 20:54:26 UTC - in response to Message 108919.  

If you know anything about IQ tests you wouldn't ask that question without a lot of qualification.
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Message 108926 - Posted: 4 Jul 2022, 21:08:16 UTC

Only a weak mind can be controlled.


At 11 years old? You really don't have a clue what you are talking about.
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Message 108928 - Posted: 4 Jul 2022, 21:27:41 UTC - in response to Message 108925.  

Wikipedia rules OK.

And your statement demonstrates that you do not understand anything about IQ and IQ testing.
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Message 108929 - Posted: 4 Jul 2022, 22:05:33 UTC
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Peter do you know about the parrots of San Francisco? They are pets who escaped and now have formed large viable flocks, IMO very cool even if the are an invasive specie,
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Message 108931 - Posted: 4 Jul 2022, 23:18:58 UTC - in response to Message 108929.  

Peter do you know about the parrots of San Francisco? They are pets who escaped and now have formed large viable flocks, IMO very cool even if the are an invasive specie,

Ah, didn't know SFO had a flock, can't escape the monster flocks in Pasadena.
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Message 108932 - Posted: 5 Jul 2022, 6:55:07 UTC - in response to Message 108931.  

To add to the list of "parrots" that have established breading colonies, there's one in London - a very bright & colourful, contribution to that city's bird population.
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Message 108935 - Posted: 5 Jul 2022, 8:12:36 UTC

Clean up done. The flames and flame bait stop now. One more even faint flame and I deal out vacations. You can all have a nice and even heated conversation, but keep it civil, please.
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Message 108940 - Posted: 5 Jul 2022, 11:41:25 UTC - in response to Message 108939.  
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I wonder what the law is on catching them for pets? You're not allowed to import them from the wild in their native countries anymore. Which has put the value of some of mine from £500 to £1700!

That depends...
If the bird was provably captive bred then it's OK to trap that particular bird.
Otherwise it is illegal to trap the bird as it is deemed to have bred in the wild, and under the Wildlife & Countryside Act it is an offence to capture (as a pet) a "wild bred" bird f any species.

I would imagine that it is very difficult to say that a particular smallish bird was captive/wild bred without having the bird in hand (are captive bred "parrots" chipped?) and having full access to ringing records (I assume given their value that some/all captive bred parrots are ringed as a means of identifying ownership. But also many wild bred birds are ringed to track their movements, so just seeing a ring is not a foolproof guide either way.
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