Ok, so we all know that dead parrots are amazing...but what about live ones?  Well they can be pretty clever too...

Joko the parrot pleaded the the fifth amendment (the right to stay silent on the grounds that he might incriminate himself) when he went up before the judge in an Oslo courtroom.  The charge?  Being a major source of noise pollution

A parrot escaped from its cage in California in 1986 and, according to a newspaper, rested at the top of a tall tree calling down at firemen "I can talk.  Can you fly?"

In 1896 the Tass news agency in Moscow reported that a Russian parrot could recite Shakespeare's eighth sonnet in English and give an accurate renendition of a Pushkin poem

Coco the talking parrot belonged to Prince Leopold of Belgium and sang duets with his wife Charlotte.  When she died in 1817 Coco was so affected that he never sang again

During the 1996 general election in India, one candidate trained a host of parrots to squark his name and then released them into the surrounding countryside.  He commented "It's very important to get your name known"