Friday, August 22, 2014 at 4:26 
4 Male Lord Derby's parakeets bickering at the Norbulingka palace garden in Lhasa. Rarest Psittacula species of mainland Asia flourishes in Lhasa.
Friday, January 4, 2013 at 9:21 
The tradegy that is the wild bird trade in India. The illegal bird trade in Delhi has been continuing in spite of the ban on the trading and keeping of native birds. With a large number of these birds, especially parrots, entering Delhi from Uttar Pradesh - Noida and Ghaziabad have emerged as significant entry points into Delhi.
Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 11:23 
The Parrots of India (click to enlarge)Despite the blanket ban on trade in bird species across India since 1990-91, hundreds of parrots continue to be collected and traded annually in the country.
Loriculus vernalis - Vernal Hanging Parrot, Psittacula alexandri - Red-breasted Parakeet, Psittacula columboides - Malabar Parakeet, Psittacula cyanocephala - Plum-headed Parakeet, Psittacula derbiana - Derbyan Parakeet, Psittacula eupatria - Alexandrine Parakeet, Psittacula finschii - Grey-headed Parakeet, Psittacula krameri - Ring-necked Parakeet | in Conservation, Legislation, Poaching, Smuggling, Wild bird trade Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 3:49 
Lôro quer biscoito Photo: Eduardo Pelosi
Polly want crack? Or maybe marijuana, a beer or a daily dose of cigarette smoke blown in her face?
All are familiar situations for Wendy Huntbatch, president of the World Parrot Refuge in Coombs, where, among 800 rescued birds, are at least a dozen parrots withdrawing from drugs, recovering from exposure to smoke or healing after mistreatment by drug users and dealers.
"We have birds that were used as toys by drug addicts. Watching them go through withdrawal is dreadful," Huntbatch said.
Parrots are a status symbol for many people, who have no idea how to care for a noisy, demanding, long-lived bird, Huntbatch said. "They put a parrot on their arm and they think they're a pirate," she said.
Saturday, July 26, 2003 at 10:22 
African grey parrot sitting outside at Eden Place
EDEN Place, near Kirkby Stephen, is aptly named as its land, along with that of neighbouring Hartley Fold, has become a 900-acre “garden of Eden” devoted entirely to nature.
Every year it attracts an increasing number of wild animals, birds and butterflies and the wild flowers and wetland plants, which flourish in different areas, attract a variety of insects.
John Strutt, now in his 60s, is the man responsible for this “paradise”, above which colourful parrots and other exotic birds grace the skies as they fly free, writes HELENE PHILLIPS.
In 1994, the area became a nature conservation area, named the John Strutt Conservation Foundation in recognition of the generosity of its “creator” and his long-standing concern for conservation.
