Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 13:44 
Purple-naped Lory (Lorius domicella). Vulnerable because it has a small population, which is undergoing a continuing decline owing to trapping. Image by WayanHenri Jakarta: East Java police and animal rights organisation confiscated 40 rare birds from a house in Surabaya and arrested a suspected animal trader.
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 10:12 
Red-tailed black cockatooEarly figures from an annual census of the endangered red-tailed black cockatoo show that numbers are down on last year.
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 2:54 
BudgerigarNew Delhi Wildlife SOS ‘rescues’ budgerigars released by Delhiites, says these Australian birds can’t survive here and become crow feed.
Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 13:25 
Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos pictured at Edithvale wetlands. Image by Wayne Butterworth
AN INTERNATIONAL crime syndicate based in northern Victoria is making millions of dollars smuggling endangered and exotic bird eggs in and out of the country.
Cacatua galerita - Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua leadbeateri - Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Callocephalon fimbriatum - Gang-gang Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii - Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus baudinii - Baudin Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus - Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus latirostris - Carnaby's Cockatoo, Trichoglosus haematodus - Rainbow Lorikeets | in Smuggling, Wild bird trade Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 4:57 
Ground parrot by Jacobi Parkinson,1792-1796.
FINDING a rare critter in the Australian bush can be a tricky business.
Very few people, bird watchers included, have ever seen the eastern ground parrot. Shy and elusive, the ground-dwelling birds are found in dense thickets of bush along the eastern seaboard, making their tunnels and nests in the undergrowth.
