Bird Toon of the Day - February 12, 2020
This is a real flashback. I found this while searching for something else; it is a strip I remember my local newspaper carrying when I was younger. The strip (and title character) is Winthrop, and the parrot is obviously named MacTavish. I don't remember his sister's name, and Wikipedia was no help there, although it does say the strip ran from 1966 to 1994, and was an evolution of another strip (Morty Meekle) which dates back to 1956. Anyway, from today in 1971: