'My parrots are the squawk of the town'

Brenda Topley talks to pet parrots Scarlet, left, and Sherlock. Sherlock wears a sock over his chest to deter his feather-plucking habit. David Samson / The ForumFargo – As Stuart and Brenda Topley’s children left home for college, the couple began feathering their emptying nest – literally. Six colorful, vocal parrots now reside in their Rose Creek home.
The video depicts a man accelerating, then breaking sharply in an emergency lane on the Eastern Freeway with a bird on the outside of his car.
ProFauna Campaigns on Parrot Protection in Manokwari, West PapuanThousands of parrots are caught from the wild in Papu and North Malukuto supply domestic and international illegal wildlife trade. In the 2001-2002 Flying without Wings report, the Indonesian wildlife protection NGO, ProFauna Indonesia (www.profauna.org), revealed evidence that an average of 15,000 parrots were caught from the wild to supply the pet markets. Among the parrots poached from the wild in West Papua are black-capped Lories (Lorius lorry), sulphur-crested Cockatoos (Cacatua galerita), Eclectus parrots (Eclectus roratus), and rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglosus haematodus).