Polly gotta ticket! Parrot in car gets parking ticket

A PARROT was left speechless when a traffic warden gave him a parking ticket on a busy Liverpool street.

The colourful bird looked nonplussed when the official slapped a penalty notice on his vehicle’s windscreen.

The parrot had been left alone in the front seat of a white van left outside 62 Castle Street hotel, in Liverpool city centre.

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Macaws flying over Medellin, Colombia!

Today we received a wonderful video from Carlos Esteban Lara Vásquez who studies the macaws of Medellin for us. The video was gracefully made available by Carolina Gomez. In the video you can see 5 macaws enjoying some fruit in a tree (Spathodea campanulata) after which they take flight. From the flight pattern you could deduct that their is one pair of Scarlet macaws (Ara macao). These are the birds that fly parallel and synchronised to each other. They are more loosely followed by what might be their offspring. This supports the notion that the macaws have been successfully reproducing within the city habitat. The two other birds are more loosely associated. One of the birds is a green-winged macaw (Ara chloroptera). The first of its kind to be recorded in Medellin!

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