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"Parrot Power" is the 13th episode of Season 6 of the PBS Kids show Wild Kratts. It is the 151st episode of the series overall. It aired on July 14th, 2020.
Summary[]
While flying over the Amazon rainforest, the gang share a bowl of colorful jelly beans. Martin tells them that the jelly beans remind him of parrots. This confuses everybody until he says it's because parrots come in almost every color. Soon the bros are off on a creature mission to find as many colorful parrots as they can in the Amazon Rainforest.
Characters[]
Animals[]
Animation[]
Note: Featured animals are in bold.
- Scarlet Macaw: Squawk, Squeak
- Blue-and-yellow Macaw (called blue-and-gold macaw)
- Military Macaw
- Pygmy Marmoset
- Golden-tailed Sapphire (called hummingbird)
Live Action Images []
Note: Live action animals are linked to Wikipedia.
- Sun parakeet (called sun conure)
- Yellow-crowned amazon
- Lilac-crowned amazon
- Golden parakeet
- Galah
Live Action[]
Note: Live action animals are linked to Wikipedia.
Trivia[]
- Just like Gourmand, Donita is shown to pay Zach for some of his inventions.
- This is the first appearance of the Deactivator, which automatically deactivates the Creature Power Suits.
- In earlier episodes, the Creature Power Discs become miniaturized when the Teleporter sends them to the miniaturized Kratt Brothers. But in this episode, Koki tells Aviva that the Parrot Power Discs have to be miniaturized because the Kratt Brothers were miniaturized.
- The gang is shown to like jelly beans. They each have their favorite color:
- Martin: Blue
- Aviva: Purple
- Chris: Green
- Koki: Yellow
- Jimmy: Orange
- Lavender apparently appears to be Aviva's favorite shade of purple, as she mentions she likes Lavender and yellow Easter eggs in "In Search of the Easter Bunny".
Key Facts and Creature Moments[]
- There are over 350 species of parrots in the world, and there are about 70 species in the Amazon alone.
- Parrots can come in all different colors, from the red-colored scarlet macaw to the pink-colored galah.
- Parrots have strong hooked beaks for cracking open seeds and nuts.
- Parrots such as macaws can use their beaks to climb as well.
- Parrots have zygodactyl feet, two toes forward and two toes backward.
- Macaws and other parrots like to make nests in tree hollows to raise their chicks.
- Macaws visiting a clay lick.
- Hura crepitans seeds are poisonous, but macaws are able to safely consume them by eating clay. The clay contains chemicals that absorb the toxins of the seeds, making them harmless.
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