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Free-range Parrots - a meeting with John Strutt in Cumbria

January 07, 2007 — Filed in: Conservation

By Dorothy Schwarz, Article appeared in “Parrots magazine” October 2001

Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) hanging around in the gutter

I’d first heard of John Strutt in 1999 via an Internet Forum - For the Love of Greys. I was seeking advice on free flying my baby CAG hen but the subscribers advised me to clip Artha ‘for her own safety.’ In one message I was told that someone in UK free flies a flock of greys. The writer doubted whether it was possible. Fifteen months later, I had tracked John down via The Parrot Society and he had invited me to Cumbria to see for myself.

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