World's Cutest Parrot?

The Buff-faced Pygmy Parrot was recently filmed for the first time in the wild by a BBC film crew. These parrot are tiny - measuring just 9cm long as adults! They live in the rain forests of Papua New Guinea and may very well be the cutest parrots on earth! Here's a screen shot from one of the clips:
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Read all about it at the BBC and watch both impossibly cute videos too!

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Mandy on September 9, 2009 at 5:16 AM wrote:
Wow... that is just amazing. :-) You can't say that God doesn't have imagination!

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