Plea to reconsider corella cull

NO EASY ANSWER: The community is divided over what should be done - if anything -about Old Noarlunga's annual invasion of corellas. Image by Ruth EllisonTHE corella flocks may have left the Old Noarlunga township for the winter but discussion about their impact on the historic township is still thriving.

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Who's a clever girl, then? The enchanting story of one vet's love affair with a very pretty African Grey Polly

Bird brain: Malcolm Welshman's African Grey, PollySorry Polly. But it’s got to be done,’ I murmured as my  African Grey squawked, muffled by the towel in which she was wrapped. With trembling hands, I parted her feathers and injected anaesthetic.

As Polly slipped into unconsciousness, her frantic shrieks died away. I stretched her out on the kitchen table, plucked her neck and then disinfected it. There was a growth — an ugly mis-shapen raspberry of tissue — pressing on her windpipe. If I didn’t operate, she would slowly asphyxiate and I would lose 20 years of loyal companionship.

Choice? There was none.

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Driver tries to smuggle parrots into US

Orange-fronted parakeet. Photo: José David Mendoza TerrazasNOGALES, Ariz. -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stopped a pair of parrots from being smuggled into the United States over the weekend.

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Polly Wanna a Date? Rare Parrot Needs a Mate

Coco the Hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), one of the last males of his species in Paraguay, has had a rough start. Since his birth nine years ago he has been captured from the wild by illegal parrot traders, rescued, placed into Paraguay’s Asunción Zoo, and then stolen from there—a crime that turned him into such a media celebrity that the thieves could not sell him and decided to set him free.

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Customs stops parrot smuggling at Nogales

Image by Charlene WoodNOGALES, Ariz. -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have stopped the smuggling of a pair of parrots across the Arizona-Mexico border at Nogales.

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