Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 11:44 
Swift Parrots are endangered. There are estimated to be only about a thousand breeding pairs left in the wild. This one was part of a group of twenty or thirty that have stopped for a couple of weeks in Canberra on their way back to their summer breeding grounds in Tasmania.Image by Leo
Tasmania has deferred logging an area important for the breeding of the endangered swift parrot.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 11:20 
Parrots are adaptable.COLLEGE STATION, Texas, (UPI) -- U.S. and Costa Rican scientists say their research suggests parrots -- with more than 90 species facing extinction -- might be more adaptable than thought.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 9:00 
Horrors of the wild bird trade. Image Michael & Lauren CriglerPATNA: People are often caught in red tape. On Monday, it was the turn of parrots, many of whom died due to hunger and thirst as policemen took their own time in releasing a seized cage full of them to forest officials.
Monday, October 13, 2008 at 11:00 
Flo Gaud and Stu Thorne measure the beak of a kea as part of a Department of Conservation monitoring programme around Treble Cone skifield. Kea around Treble Cone skifield, near Wanaka, have been the subject of a recent Department of Conservation study into the habits of the inquisitive and endangered native alpine parrot.
Nestor notabilis - Kea | in Conservation, Research Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 16:15 
Del Nejmanowski poses with his parrots in 2006. Photograph courtesy of Patricia Nejmanowski CARLINVILLE — Del Nejmanowski loved animals. Through the years, he had doves, a hawk, a monkey — even a black bear — all of which he kept at home in Carlinville, opinions of neighbors notwithstanding. Eventually, he settled on macaw parrots. The big kind. The ones that rise early, squawk and, left to their own devices, do pretty much what they want.
Ara ararauna - Blue-and-Gold Macaw | in Rescue, Urban parrots 
