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Lincolnshire Wildlife Park: Live outside the sweary parrots' enclosure

Lincolnshire Wildlife Park near Skegness has created a separate enclosure for a growing group of swearing parrots.

Three African grey parrots - Eric, Captain and Sheila, have been placed with an original group of five with "quite a bad language problem".

Steve Nichols, CEO of the park, told BBC Breakfast's Jon Kay and Sally Nugent that the language was so bad, the parrots couldn't appear on the programme.

23 January 2024

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