Polly gotta ticket! Parrot in car gets parking ticket
September 05, 2008 — Filed in: Parrot News
A PARROT was left speechless when a traffic warden gave him a parking ticket on a busy Liverpool street.
Source: by Luke Traynor, Liverpool Echo
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New Zealand parrots wreak havoc at bird sanctuary
September 05, 2008 — Filed in: Parrot News
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A gang of unruly teenage bush parrots have wrought havoc at a bird sanctuary in New Zealand by using their powerful beaks to destroy nesting boxes.
Source: The Associated Press
Slippery conduits foil wire-chewing cockatoos
September 03, 2008 — Filed in: Parrot News
FLEXICON says it has supplied Telstra with ‘cockatoo-proof’ flexible conduit for protecting cables in the Australian outback from attacks by the wildlife.
Source: Factory Maintenanc
Lethal parrot disease may be caused by horse virus
August 11, 2008 — Filed in: Conservation Parrot News
A devastating parrot disease that has pushed one species to the brink of extinction might be spread by a newly-discovered virus.
Humans Can Eventually Become Good At Identifying Individual Parrots From A Flock
August 11, 2008 — Filed in: Parrot News
The bird enthusiast who chronicled the adventures of a flock of red-headed conures in his book “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill” knows most of the parrots by name, yet most of us would be hard pressed to tell one bird from another. While it has been known for a long time that we can become acutely attuned to our day-to-day environment, the underlying neural mechanism has been less clear.
Source: Gina Kirchweger - Salk Institute
Farmer takes government to court for parrot destruction
August 07, 2008 — Filed in: Conservation Parrot News
A Marigot farmer has begun legal proceedings against the Roosevelt Skerrit Government for damaged caused to his orange plantation by parrots.
Source: Dominica news online
Callous thieves steal kids’ parrots
June 27, 2008 — Filed in: Parrot News
A COMPLETELY senseless act has left a group of children with disabilities without their pet parrots.
Birds that boogie
June 27, 2008 — Filed in: Parrot News
Online videos of ‘dancing’ cockatoos are not flukes but the first genuine evidence of animal dancing.
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