Hello Everybody
Welcome to the My Parrot Shop Newsletter for November 2007!

In this newsletter we're looking at the Sydney Pet and Animal Expo, Starbird products, Just Naturals, and Bird of Man.

See us at the Sydney Pet and Animal Expo
Caroline and Richard are coming to Sydney for the Pet and Animal Expo from Friday 9th November to Sunday 11th November. We'll be there from 10am - 5pm each day. The address is Rosehill Racecourse, James Ruse Drive, Rosehill.

This is Australia's largest pet expo featuring:

• Over 180 exhibitors.
• Non-stop stage presentations and demonstrations.
• Bird breed showcases including a display of various bird breeds and a selection of aviaries.
• Load of things for children to do.
  

So come along to say hello and see our range of parrot products on display - a great day out!

More information including exhibition map here.

Starbird Toys!
As promised in our last newsletter, we have expanded our range of Starbird products with some awesome toys made out of natural materials. This month we're featuring two of our favourites...

Get a Grip

The StarBird Get a Grip™ provides a climbing and playing environment that most emulates a natural forest or jungle. Made of untreated abaca this climbing grid can be hung or draped and its configuration changed as often as you like.

Your birds can climb, play, go in and out of the spaces and create their own games with the grid providing secure footing, all the while exercising their body and mind.

With your imagination, the applications for fun and exercise with the Get a Grip™ are endless. It makes for a fantastic alternative to a play stand, and is great for communal use. It’s durable, movable, washable and attractive.

We've hung our Get a Grip from the ceiling between our open-plan kitchen and living room area. Keiko loves flying around and landing on it, and we've hung some toys on it to make things more fun!

Get a Grip comes in three sizes as well as square & rectangular dimensions, so we can cater to all bird sizes :)

Get a Grip

Just Naturals - coming soon!

Just Naturals are all about bringing nature into your parrot’s living room. Pine cones & various seed pods including (but not limited to!) Hakea, Banksia, She Oak and the good ol’ native Australian Eucalypt Gum Nut. Natural wood with all the bark intact collected from various species. Just some of the natural branches you’ll see include Eucalypt, Stringy Bark, Casuarinas, Black Wattle, Queensland Brush Box, Callistemon, Banksia and Acacia. Combine all of these fantastic wild ingredients with untreated sisal rope and strictly stainless steel hardware and you present your bird with the very best.

For those of you who live in the middle of a city, are very busy, or have little trust in your abilty to tell the safe species of trees from the hazardous ones, these products are going to be right up your alley.

Included in the range of products going up on the site shortly are chews, twirls and swings and other interesting perching options.

Gifts - new category!
We have a new category called 'Gifts'. This category will contain parrot-related gifts for parrot-people :)

Our first product in this category is a music CD.

Introducing ... "In the city of a thousand smiles" - the debut record from Melbourne soloist, Bird of Man.

Half of the proceeds from each record sold go directly to Birds Australia's Orange-bellied Parrot recovery programme. This Australian species, with a total population of around 140 individuals, is one of the World's rarest species.

Bird of Man CD

That's all, we hope you enjoyed our newsletter!

The My Parrot Team.