Thousands of birds die in sweltering heat

Warning: Grafic pictures!      

 Populations of budgerigars, crimson chat, cockatiel, and zebra finch have exploded throughout the lower Murchison, about 3 hours northeast of Geraldton, after unseasonably high winter and spring rainfall sparked a breeding frenzy.THOUSANDS of birds have dropped dead at the Overlander Roadhouse, 200km south of Carnarvon, apparently perishing from extreme heat and lack of water.

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Urban cockatoos mask statewide crisis

Carnaby’s Black CockatooThe recent arrival of Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo populations in previously uninhabited parks around Perth’s western suburbs is obscuring the extent to which the critically endangered species is under threat from extinction.

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PFA Delhi - Rescue 500 Parrots

500 Alexandrine and Ring-necked parakeets rescued in Delhi.PFA Delhi under Saurav and Gaurav Gupta rescued 500 parrots from a roadways bus in Ghaziabad . One smmuggler Ashraf has been arrested under the Wildlife Protection ACt 1972  and one smuggler Shakeel Khan escaped. Case registered in Police Station Masuri. Bus Number UP 21 N 5883.

Birds starved to death

Black Cockatoo Rehabilitation and Rescue Centre general manger Chris Phillips tends to injured birds. THE Black Cockatoo Rehabilitation and Rescue Centre put down a starving Carnaby cockatoo last month.

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On a wing and a swear: Gutter-mouthed parrot banned from the classroom because of foul vocabulary

Foul-mouthed: It was hoped that Mr T would be used to promote the environment in schools and universities but he has been banned from going before schoolchildren until he learns to stop swearingIt was hoped that he would be used to promote the environment in schools and universities.

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