I believe the parrot story, SJThaddeus. Birds are very smart, especially parrots.
Yes, I know, :sign-thread-hijacked:, but I do have one more smart bird story about my neighbors.
My neighbors raised their birds in a converted garage which they filled with big cages that went from floor to ceiling. Where the front door of the garage used to be they hooked up a big (40' X 40') wire enclosure for the birds to fly around in during they day. As you can imagine, the sight of these succulent little morsels flitting around in plain view presented a terrible temptation for every cat and bird of prey in the vicinity. When one of these predators would come too close, the birds inside would naturally raise a great racket, alerting my neighbors in their house who would come out with a broom and/or a pellet gun.
Well, one afternoon about three o'clock they heard the typical commotion the birds made when a bad guy was close by. The missus came out with her broom and looked around the wire enclosure. No cats, hawks, owls, or falcons in sight. She noticed that the commotion had ended almost as soon as she got close to the enclosure. She went into the building. No raptors or felines. The birds were quiet but seemed a little nervous to her. She glanced around again but still saw nothing. Some instinct made her take a third look around and then she understood.
There, sitting calmly on one of the perches, next to two parakeets, was a chicken hawk. The two parakeets were shifting back and forth on the perch and peering furtively at their large new "neighbor" but were otherwise silent. The lady opened the door to the cage and the hawk, realizing that the jig was up, glided out and landed next to the back door. My neighbor opened the door and the hawk flew away. She had been in too great of shock to think of whacking it with the broom.
Later she discovered that the hawk had entered through a small hole behind the gutter in the eaves of the main building right outside of the cage where she found it. Apparently that hawk had been clever enough to "hide in plain sight" among the other birds, and when it stopped moving around, the parakeets had calmed down, although they still knew that something was wrong with the situation. I can only imagine what would have happened if my neighbor hadn't taken that one last look around! :ready-to-eat: