The bird, called AJ, can be seen putting a golf ball, slam dunking a basketball and performing gymnastic routines. Thousands of fans have watched the sporting all-rounder demonstrate his prowess in a one minute 14 second clip on video sharing website YouTube. The green and yellow parrot's personal trainer offers encouragement from the sidelines with comments such as "good bird" and "good job." And the bird psyches himself up for the challenge by repeating: "Put the ball in the basket. Put the ball in the basket." The Indian Ringneck Parakeet starts his gymnastic routine by playing dead and jumping to his feet as a man out of view of the camera says: "get up". The 18-year-old parrot rolls over sideways and climbs onto his trainer's finger, which he uses as a high bar to perform more remarkable stunts. As the trainer says "do a flip" and "turn around" the obedient parrot rolls over th...