Perch stunt to help bored birds
May 24, 2004 — Filed in: Parrot News
A parrot keeper is to spend eight hours sitting on a wooden perch on Tuesday to highlight the welfare of pet birds.
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Ecologists hit out at plan to export Argentinian parrots
April 01, 2004 — Filed in: Parrot News
San Diego - An application from Argentina to export parrots as pets to the United States has sent feathers flying among ecologists, some of whom say it would deplete populations in the wild.
Parrot’s oratory stuns scientists
January 26, 2004 — Filed in: Parrot News
By Alex Kirby,BBC News Online environment correspondent
The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short.
Newly discovered pet Spix’s Macaw returns to Brazil
December 22, 2002 — Filed in: Parrot News
A Spix’s Macaw, the world’s rarest parrot, made a long flight home today from Colorado to Brazil, 25 years after being taken from the wild, smuggled to Europe, and subsequently to the USA. With luck, this avian “Rip Van Winkle” will provide the genetic shot-in-the-arm that the species needs to bring it back from the brink of extinction. The iridescent indigo-blue macaw with a long sweeping tail is a unique bird. Never common, the Spix’s became extinct in the wild two years ago following decades of decline from trapping and habitat loss.
“Missing” South American Parrot Rediscovered After 90 years
August 21, 2002 — Filed in: Parrot News
This July 28, researchers with ProAves Colombia, supported by American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and the World Parrot Trust (WPT), photographed one of the world’s rarest parrots in the high Andes of Colombia confirming the survival of this long lost species. Colombian ornithologists Jorge Velasquez and Alonso Quevedo found a flock of 14 Fuertes’s Parrots in a remote area of the central Andes close to Los Nevados National Park.
New Bald Parrot (Pionopsitta aurantiocephala)
May 20, 2002 — Filed in: Parrot News
The Bald Parrot caused a sensation when it was described in 2002 mainly because it is hard to believe that such a large and colourful bird could have escaped the notice of the world.
Rare parrots lay a record
March 20, 2002 — Filed in: Parrot News
By Alex Kirby, BBC News Online environment correspondent
Two months ago the world could boast just 62 kakapo, the world’s rarest parrot.
Today that number has risen by a third, to 84 birds, thanks to a bumper brood of chicks.
Who’s a bright budgie then?
January 08, 2002 — Filed in: Parrot News
Budgerigars use fluorescent colouring in their feathers to attract mates, a team of researchers based at the University of Queensland has discovered.
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