200 caged parrots rescued in Mumbai
Mumbai Police on Thursday rescued 200 parrots, which were kept in cages for sale by peddlers. Read on…
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More birds than ever face extinction - but Echo Parakeet success storie highlight way forward
As the 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals the scale of the escalating extinction crisis occurring across the planet, an unobtrusive parakeet from Mauritius is showing that, with funding and dedicated fieldworkers, species can recover from the brink of extinction. Read on…
Three deadly parrot viruses now in Australia, scientists say
Rosslyn Beeby, The Canberra Times
Scientists claim at least three deadly contagious bird diseases have by-passed Australia’s quarantine controls and will spread to native parrots and cockatoos. Read on…
Call-up to protect parrot
Tasmanians will be signed up for a swift parrot nest project that won a $26,000 grant yesterday.
Urgent action was needed to protect the nests of the endangered bird which breeds along Tasmania’s East Coast, said the proponent, the Tasmanian Conservation Trust. Read on…
Endangered parrots seized from village
Police and an Agricultural Officer on Kadavu have seized a parrot from a village in Southern Kadavu believed to have been bought by a resort owner nearby. Read on…
Check hotel parrots, State tells police
Police have been asked by the State to investigate a report by a tourist that a hotel off the island of Kadavu is holding two parrots listed as endangered species. Read on…
100+ Smuggled Parrots Returned To Mexico
SAN DIEGO — About 150 exotic parrots were sent back to Mexico on Wednesday after a repatriation ceremony at San Diego’s Otay Mesa border crossing. Read on…
Saving the remarkable kakapo from extinction
One of the strangest and most endangered birds in the world, the kakapo, is being brought back from the brink of extinction with the help of scientists from the University of Glasgow. Read on…
Endangered parrot sightings have hopes soaring
Nine orange-bellied parrots have been seen around the Yambuk wetlands, sparking hopes numbers of the critically endangered birds are on the rise.
The parrot is considered one of the rarest kinds of bird in the world. Read on…
‘Protein pill’ saves parrot in peril
Scottish scientists have helped to save one of the strangest and most endangered birds in the world from extinction.
The kakapo, the world’s only nocturnal and flightless parrot, was facing extinction due to man’s invasion of its habitat, in New Zealand.
But experts in Glasgow have been instrumental in helping to boost its numbers by developing a food supplement to improve its breeding potential. Read on…