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By MARIANELA JIMENEZ Associated Press Writer
LA GARITA DE ALAJUELA, Costa Rica—Endangered scarlet macaws born in captivity are reproducing in the wild for the first time on Costa Rica’s southern Pacific coast. Read on…
Landowners in the Burnett Mary region are being encouraged to go birdwatching to help track down a vulnerable native parrot. Read on…
BERKELEY – The population of wild Puerto Rican parrots, among the most endangered birds in the world, has languished for decades, with several dozen remaining birds unable to break through the bottleneck that prevents their numbers from growing. Read on…
South Australian volunteers are delighted with the results of the weekend’s annual count of red-tailed black cockatoos. Read on…
Yorkshire Post By Alexandra Wood
It’s a long way from the Amazon - and a lot colder - but a pair of parrots are thriving in the wild thousands of miles from their natural home.
The orange-winged amazons have set up home in the wall of St Mary’s Church in Cottingham, near Hull, and their noisy squawking is now waking the neighbours up in the morning. Read on…
Scotsman By Adrian Mather and Hazel mollison
They are more commonly found in tropical climes. But a brave bunch of parakeets seem to have decided the Edinburgh climate is to their liking and set up home in the city. Read on…
Esperance Express by Haidee Vandenberghe
After two years of planning, the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) is beginning to implement a controlled burning program that is hoped to both further protect the critically endangered western ground parrot and prevent enormous and destructive fire events in uncleared land. Read on…
Trinidad & Tobago Express by Kim Boodram
Right now, their parents are still searching frantically, calling for them where their nesting area in the Nariva Wetlands used to be. Read on…
There had been few leads in the case of the vanishing parrot of Margate. By now its owner, and Kent Police’s finest, may well have despaired of ever finding the abducted bird. Read on…
If you use cocaine and need a reason to quit—or one to avoid starting in the first place—think conservation. The national parks of Guatemala and other countries have become the preferred haven of drug traffickers who usurp protected areas and burn the forest to serve their own purposes and the demands of their customers, according to Roan McNab, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) country director for Guatemala. Read on…
