The parrot zombie is rather annoying on some levels as it seems to randomly select plants to pick, often times my twin sunflowers in the back row. How does it choose which plant to go after? Is there a way I can bait it into picking an iceburg lettuce? What is the best way to deal with a parrot?
How to bait the parrot
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Best Answer
After a short wiki check on the Zombie Parrot it seems that it chooses the plants absolutely at random. It also says that:
From my personal experience I can say that it's (almost) impossible to tell which plant will it (try to) steal before it lands on it. I assume that you want to bait it into an Iceberg Lettuce only because it costs nothing, but I'm quite sure that it's impossible to force it to take the plant of your choice. But normally by the time you encounter them you have enough defense to kill them. Personally I had a Repeater and some other plants in each row which was enough to kill it before it got too far.
Possible strategies vs. Zombie Parrot:
If you see that you won't be able to kill him before he passes your attacking plants, you may want to use a Plant Food on a plant that attack the row in which the Parrot is flying at that moment. A good option would be to feed a Cabbage Pult, because it heavily attacks all zombies on the screen.
If you want to slow the game down a bit to let you gather more sun and not to lose a plant you may plant the Iceberg Lettuce somewhere and immediately feed it with Plant Food. It will freeze all zombies on the screen(pretty much the same as Ice Shroom from the first game).
I don't know if there is anything like Umbrella Leaf in the second game, but if I will find a defensive plant against Parrots I'll update my answer.