The Cheaper the Better

Forget the $15 brightly colored wood, plastic, metal, rubber toys made for our psittacine friends. Instead, make sure you keep the junk mail, the catalogs and phonebooks, the shoe boxes, the empty prescription bottles now filled with screws, the paper bags, and the newspapers. If you want him to have it, he will not love it. He will fly to the kitchen shelf instead, and proceed to eat the spines of your cookbooks.

And it's all the better if it can be thrown onto the floor.

I am trying to get a picture of SSW disregarding the proper use of metal measuring spoons. He, however, will not cooperate. He's a parrot, for god's sake.

He likes to grab the hole in the end of the spoon and throw it onto the counter, screaming each time it bangs down.

Here is the spoon, up close. You can see the appealing hole for grabbing.
These are good quality spoons that I like. So they aren't the cheapest toy he could've picked. The plastic spoons just don't make the same tantalizing sound when you fling them, gravity obliging, when they hit the floor.

And he loves the banging. Unloading the dishwasher should be done with protective ear gear. He tries to get on the top rack and peck at the clean glassware. But some things are off-limits, even to the tyrant.