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Pity the swift parrot: it has the misfortune to tilt against a pulp mill, rather than a windmill, like its orange-bellied cousin famously did.
There are perhaps 1000 breeding pairs of the swift parrot left. If you managed to line them up side by side, every one of these resplendent birds left in the world could probably fit on your living room floor. That’s how close we are to losing them for good. Read on…
By Deire Mussen - Sunday Star Times
The first artificial insemination of a rare New Zealand bird is planned this summer in a bid to boost kakapo numbers.
Low population numbers have kept the critically endangered nocturnal parrot perilously close to extinction for the past 30 years, since a small breeding population was discovered on Stewart Island. All 86 kakapo, the world’s heaviest parrot, known to exist live on offshore predator-free island sanctuaries in the South Island.
Kakapo recovery programme senior technical officer Daryl Eason said he turned to artificial insemination after the last breeding season two years ago was hampered by high levels of egg infertility. Only four kakapo chicks were born from 26 eggs laid on Whenua Hou (Codfish Island), near Stewart Island, and 60% of eggs laid were infertile. Read on…
The Tanzanian government is finalising plans to lift the ban, imposed in 1992, on the export of “Fisher’s Love Birdsâ€, known in Kiswahili as “Kasukuâ€. Read on…
Australia’s second-rarest bird has been sighted in the Coorong, raising new hopes for the parrot teetering on the edge of extinction.
Recent surveys in Coorong National Park have detected two small groups of the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot.
Surveys by Environment and Heritage Department rangers, interstate biologists and volunteers have confirmed orange-bellied parrots continue to migrate to the Coorong coastline each year.
Three of the parrots sighted this winter were identified as first-year birds undertaking their first migrations. Read on…
A proposed bill is soon to be deliberated by the Peruvian Congress to reduce the size of a key National Park by 200.000 ha. Candamo is a megadiverse site and cannot be allowed to be the target of gas companies, as it’s natural resources are far more valuable in the long term. For more information, please see the text in the petition.
Further recommended action to stop the bill: Click here to enter your details to send an automatic letter to Peruvian congress members to stop this action. Amazon Watch gives a good summary of the situation and recommend action to take. For more information see the Save Candamo Alliance.
The biggest release ever of orange-bellied parrots will carry the hopes of a conservation program. Read on…
Parrots are among the world’s most beautiful birds, but many South American parrots have a pretty dirty little secret that researchers want to know more about: why their favorite meal isn’t fruits or nuts, but soil. Read on…
The last night parrot seen in the wild was a headless corpse. The remains, found last year in a Queensland national park, looked like an over-sized budgerigar: similar markings and shape but a stumpier tail.
Of course, budgies live in cages whereas the night parrot - known as the Tasmanian tiger of the sky - has been flirting with oblivion on the harsh plains of inland Australia since the 1880s.
It was first thought extinct in 1915. What makes the headless corpse all the more pitiful is that it could well mean the white flag finally going up for the species. Read on…
Two centuries after a dazzlingly feathered parrot called the Rimitara lorikeet disappeared from the Cook Islands, a breeding colony of the birds has been re-established with the help of the islands’ royalty.
About 100 years ago after the parrots died out on the Cook Islands, the queen of Rimitara Island in French Polynesia to the east issued a royal decree that locals say saved the last naturally occurring population of the lorikeet, one of the Pacific’s most beautiful parrots. Read on…
Birds crammed into SUV
Mexico city — Highway police seized 250 endangered parrots and 300 parakeets crammed into a sport utility vehicle in northern Mexico, and arrested the driver and a passenger on suspicion of animal trafficking, authorities said Saturday. Read on…
