Stranger than Fiction
Psychic Parrot predicted England’s Euro Cup run to final
Published:Thursday | July 8, 2021 | 7:46 AMBANG Bizarre, A Digital Integration & Marketing production
A psychic parrot predicted that England would have beat Denmark in Wednesday’s European Championship semi-final.
Eva the parrot has apparently guessed correctly on four occasions thus far.
The seven-year-old blue and gold Macaw previously guessed that England would beat Germany before they did indeed triumph 2-0.
To predict the result Eva is given a “test” which involves her being invited to choose from bowls of birdseed in front of the teams’ respective flag.
Whichever bowl she eats from is then determined to be the team she is predicting to win.
Sophia Perkins, who looks after the birds at the Kettering aviary where Eva lives, said: “Eva is known to be a very intelligent bird but we never realised she had a talent for predicting football results.
“She’s not let us down once – but it would be nice if she squawked, ‘Come on England,’ during matches.”
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