Parrots an a player's shoulder die by /kill.
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Doesn’t happen on java though. See MC-114967. On java edition parrots on shoulders aren’t real entities. Seems like on bedrock they are, which also causes MCPE-27950 (I believe they are technically riding the player, which prevents you from using portals (MC-67)) and MCPE-124496.
Given that the behavior is different from Java, I will reopen the report and leave it for Mojang say whether this is working as intended for Bedrock Edition.
In regard to the tickets about parrots on the shoulder blocking use of portals and riptide, I don't think a fix to those issues would necessarily impact this one. It may even be possible to fix both of those with a behavior pack. (Make a component group change is_pushable to false when they are riding, and use inside_block_notifier to make them dismount if they are inside a portal block. Probably would not work for end portals though.)
/kill kills everything unless you tell it not to, even the player if they are in survival mode. This is not a bug.