Greetings from Thailand. I bought a bird I saw in a feedstore last week. When I asked the boy there what kind of bird it was he said, parodok (in Thai). Nobody here has ever seen one of these before nor does anyone know what parodok means in Thai. A neighbor told me maybe he was endangered as this goes on here in Thailand. If so, I'd surely like to know. I have looked for his photo on many sites but nothing even close. He/she is about the size of an African lovebird, maybe a little larger, tailless (either by design or missing), has a large beak that looks somewhat like a raven, long black wiskers, green with some torquose around the cheeks. He eats apples and the ants that crawl into his cage, that's all so far (no seeds). He doesn't chirp or sing but once I put a mirror next to him and he made a funny gurguling sound kind of like something being dragged across the floor. JB