City ParrotsUrban Scarlet Macaw & Parrot Conservation

Dr. biol. anim. Matthias Reinschmidt, Curator Loro Parque

On Monday, May 14, it finally happened. Long and anxious waiting finally came to an end. Beneath the warm plumage of its adoptive parents, an experienced breeding pair of Green-Winged Macaws (Ara chloroptera), a young Lear’s Macaw (Anodorhynchus leari) hatched for the first time in Europe. The chick, weighing only 20 grams, was immediately accepted by the foster parents and since then has been carefully looked after by themand is growing well. Now, aged three weeks, it is time to present it to the public, which is unfortunately only possible with photos at present, as the breeding duties of the foster parents cannot be disturbed. Now the young Lear’s Macaw, named “Edward”, weighs 495 grams, 24 times more than his hatching weight three weeks ago. Read on…

Reuters

PHOENIX, - U.S. Border police found ten Amazon parrots stuffed in the duffel bag of a man crossing from Mexico, authorities said on Thursday.

Customs and Border Protection officers at the San Ysidro port of entry, south of San Diego, Calif., found the small, green birds hidden in a bag in a pickup truck on Tuesday, and arrested the driver, a U.S. citizen. Read on…

Rick Wallace, The Australian

The orange-bellied parrot, which threatened to kill off a large Victorian wind farm, has now emerged as a potential barrier to the state’s planned desalination plant.

The Australian has learnt that the proposed site for the $3.1billion plant, near Wonthaggi, southeast of Melbourne, is on the doorstep of one of the endangered parrot’s favourite winter feeding grounds. Read on…

Adriana Tovar and Luis Eduardo Urueña, researchers of the Colombia-based nonprofit Fundación ProAves, found and photographed the extremely rare Perija parakeet (Pyrrhura caeruleiceps), of which only 30 to 50 individuals likely survive. These photographs are the first ever taken of the species. Read on…

ABC news

Poor parenting is believed to have caused the deaths of 46 endangered orange bellied parrots at the Taroona Wildlife Research Centre in January last year.

It was originally thought disease was to blame and remaining birds at the centre were quarantined. Read on…

The Sydney Morning Herald

The park ranger Robert “Shorty” Cupitt was repairing a section of track in a remote part of Diamantina National Park, Queensland, when the blade of his grader exposed the headless corpse of a bird he could not immediately identify.

The yellow-bellied bird, which appeared to have flown into a nearby barbed-wire fence and had been decapitated, was eventually passed to experts at Queensland Museum. They identified it as a juvenile night parrot. The ultimate, real-life dead parrot. Read on…

Stuff.co.nz

Have you seen this bird? The rare native kaka has been sighted in Waitakere city and the Auckland branch of the Ornithological Society is keen to find out more about its whereabouts and behaviour.

Kaka are often seen around the greater region in winter, sometimes staying around mainland forests and gardens until early spring.

The large, olive brown endemic parrots, listed as an endangered species, breed off-shore on the Little and Great Barrier islands.

Young single males are chased away by adult birds during autumn and migrate to the mainland in search of food and forest territories. Read on…

Batemans Bay news

Residents who want to help efforts to save two nationally endangered bird species are being invited to attend a free workshop in Moruya early next month.

The workshop is being hosted by Eurobodalla Shire Council, in partnership with the Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) and is also supported by Birds Australia’s Threatened Bird Network (TBN). Read on…

Karori Wildlife Sanctuary Trust

Wellington’s kaka population is set to be three birds better off from Monday 11 June, when kaka chicks bred at Wellington Zoo are released at Karori Sanctuary.

A total of five North Island kaka chicks were hatched at the Zoo in December 2006, and the first three are being released into the Sanctuary on Monday. Read on…

Elcordillerano.com

People from 130 Viviendas (Province of Neuquén, Argentina) are angry because of the cruelty with which local children enjoy a bloody spectacle. One of the neighbours said that the ones that fall but do not die, are sold.

“This has been turned into a butchery”, commented a 130 Viviendas local angrily, bewilderedly reporting about the indiscriminate killing of parakeets in the neighbourhood. Read on…