Monday, January 5, 2015 at 12:19 
Researchers say parakeets are easily available in many places in the city despite their sale being illegalTheir loud and relentless screeching is a sure-shot way of identifying a pet shop from quite a distance away. As you enter, the first thing you notice is their frantic and futile attempts to escape their cramped cages.
Sunday, January 4, 2015 at 12:02 
DPIPWE officer Jocelyn Hockley looks after some 15-day-old orange-bellied parrots at Taroona. Picture: MATT THOMPSON WILD and captive populations of Tasmania’s most critically endangered bird are growing as wildlife authorities continue to work to save the orange-bellied parrot.
Another 17 clutches of chicks have been born through a government breeding program at Taroona, and eight of the chicks have now fledged.
They will be raised and released next summer as part of a soft-release program which is bearing solid early results.
Under the program, the birds are taken to Melaleuca, in the remote South-West, where they are housed in open-door aviaries to help the birds ease their way into the wild.
Thursday, January 1, 2015 at 3:36 
The SoCal Parrot Sanctuary and Garden in Jamul is home to dozens of wild parrots, many of which are healing from gunshot wounds, like this one, shot while eating figs in an El Cajon backyard. Image by Peggy Peattie
All 3 rehabilitating, but officials warn unauthorized shootings could lead to jail time.
Sunday, December 28, 2014 at 13:21 
Superb parrots hanging around in a Belconnen carpark. The threatened birds are breeding again in the ACT and region, but could be removed from Commonwealth legislation as a threatened species. Image by LizardstompA proposal to downgrade protection of the superb parrot will undo years of conservation work, say Canberra environmentalists.
Saturday, December 27, 2014 at 2:44 
Andrew Digby in New Zealand with a Kakapo.Adored by a country and loved for its quirkiness the world over, the Kakapo parrot is part of a huge conservation project to save it from extinction. Now one man from Norwich is playing an integral part in its recovery over 11,000 miles away in New Zealand.
Strigops habroptilus - Kakapo | in Conservation 
