Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 1:15 
St. Vincent Parrot. Image by Bram CymetOfficials at the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary are still waiting for a response from the Barbados Ministry of Environment regarding a proposed transfer of the Sanctuary's endangered St. Vincent Amazon parrot collection to an offshore location.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 6:45 
Make my day: Jack rests while police use DNA from ripped clothes to trace the gang (Pictures: SWNS)A gang of burglars who cased out a pet shop had hatched a simple plan – but they didn’t count on one maverick parrot.
Aratinga solstitialis - Sun Conure | in Theft Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 12:00 
Budgerigars
Police were today hunting a jealous rival who broke into the home of one of Britain’s top budgerigar breeders and stole 21 birds – and then STAMPED on the champion budgie.
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 12:13 
Lice evolved to match their hosts. Lighter lice live on the sulphur-crested cockatoo, right, and darker lice live on the yellow-tailed black cockatoo.Camouflage in nature is nothing new. A wide variety of animals, like rabbits, birds and deer, are cryptically colored to blend in with their background and guard themselves from predators.
Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 11:23 
Ralph the budgie at a bird feeder in Toronto's High Park neighbourhood. Photo: Kenneth Kidd/Toronto Star
It took scarcely any time for Ralph to become the existentialist of the garden, the one prompting all sorts of gauzy questions about the nature and meaning of life.
Why had he come, for starters, and what had been his circumstances?
There was the attraction of food, of course. Even a budgerigar on the lam needs to eat from time to time. But the rest is a mystery, at least in its precise details.
Does Ralph, as we've dubbed him, know that he's an escaped prisoner? Does he realize how perilous this course might become? Does he know about cats?
