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We decided on getting a pet bird, and when I looked on Bird Trader the first thing that caught my eye was a kookaburra. With my daughter and family in Australia it somehow seemed right!

We named her Dizzy Gillespie after the Australian cricketer Jason "Dizzy" Gillespie, who is the first person of aboriginal descent to play cricket at test level.

Kookaburra cricket bats and balls are famous worldwide, so a cricket name seemed obvious!

She has settled most readily into being a house bird, considering she was raised in an aviary with little human contact. She loves her parrot perch by the window in the office, and enjoys being played videos of Dizzy Gillespie jazz on the computer and also seems to like the didgeridoo!