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Kolkata - The state forest department today rescued 72 parrots and 20 munias from Dasnagar and Baltikuri in Howrah district. The Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 prohibits the sale of these varieties of birds and keeping these birds at home is also illegal. Read on…
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Scarlet macaws threatened by illegal poachers and land invaders who slash and burn their jungle habitat in Guatemala now have scientists watching out for them from space.
Researchers recently fit two of the red, yellow and blue-plumed parrots with satellite collars that send to computers information about their movements through the thick canopy of trees in northern Guatemala and southern Mexico. Read on…
Globeandmail.com by CINDA CHAVICH
That talking parrot may seem like a good idea at the store, but these high-maintenance pets are increasingly being abandoned
Max sits in the corner crooning I Left My Heart in San Francisco.
Ginny rips out her iridescent green and orange feathers, self-mutilating like the addicts in the crack house where she was rescued.
Peaches lost a wing but seems to have the run of the special needs unit, toddling around on her pigeon toes and chatting up anyone within earshot.
Parrots (including cockatoos, cockatiels, macaws and other exotic psittacines) are the hottest new pet for busy urbanites. In the United States, the number of pet birds quadrupled in the 1990s, to more than 40 million by some industry estimates. And bird sales continue to grow by an estimated 5 per cent a year. Read on…
T’PURAM: Ramu from Thanjavur had no inkling of what awaited him when he boarded the bus to Thiruvananthapuram with two baskets of parakeets.
Neither did he know where he was being taken, when a stranger offered him a big sale. Ramu was driven straight to the Forest Department office, where a case has been slapped against him for illegal trade of the parrots, something that occurs everyday in the city pet shops.
‘‘I swear I did not hunt down these birds. In our village they catch parrots from paddy and corn fields. I bought these birds from them,’’ said Ramu.
He was later taken to Paruthipally and remanded in custody for the non-bailable offence. The hundred and odd parrots, that included both male and female birds, have been temporarily shifted to Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary. Read on…
One great source of info about parrots in cities is Flickr. The popular image sharing website hosts thousands of pictures of parrots that people encounter on their travels and in their back yards. While most amateur birders have little regard for feral or naturalized parrot species because of their non nativeness, the general public is usually smitten with these charming characters that come to visit their garden feeders and city parks.
For decades parrot ornithological literature has listed feral and naturalized populations of Lesser Sulphur Crested Cockatoos (Cacatua sulphurea) in Hong Kong. Except for their presence little else is known about the lives of this species in the metropolis. Flickr hosts several photographs of this critically endangered species in Hong Kong. YouTube even has a video about them. Read on…
AUSTRALIA’S biggest almond grower will pay out more than $56,000 after admitting responsibility for the massacre of 41 rare regent parrots.
When the company, Select Harvests, was charged over one of the worst killings of threatened birds in Victoria, it blamed two of its workers, sacked them, and vowed to defend the charges. On Tuesday, it pleaded guilty to three charges in the Robinvale Magistrates Court.
Kyndalyn Park Pty Ltd — a wholly owned subsidiary of Select Harvests — was convicted and fined $15,000 on one count of destroying protected wildlife and a total of $1000 without conviction on two counts of breaching their wildlife control permit. The company was also ordered to pay court costs of $40,589. Read on…
Ryan Watson, Blue Macaw Coordinator, AWWP, Qatar
The three chicks are being hand-reared by experienced staff after being artificially incubated. Unfortunately the breeding pair which produced the eggs has not yet developed sound incubation skills and several eggs laid were damaged beyond repair before being able to be removed to the relative safety of an incubator. The Lear’s Macaw is rarely bred in captivity and up until last year when AWWP bred their first ever offspring, the species has not officially been bred in 22 years. Read on…
Two of Australia’s endangered bird species, the Regent Honeyeater and the Swift Parrot, are attracting regional attention as they make the most of winter rains bringing our native eucalypts into flower.
Glen Johnson, from the Department of Sustainability and Environment, says the timeliness of these flowering winter gums is directing the threatened birds to the area. “We have had an evolution of many of our eucalypts making hay while the rain falls and actually coinciding their flowering with the proliferation of the winter rain.” Read on…
A trader dealing in protected birds was arrested in Delhi in a dramatic operation no Saturday.
Four Alexandrine parakeets, 60 rose ringed parakeets and 30 munias were seized from him. Read on…
By Walter I. Balane / MindaNews
DAVAO CITY - Wildlife authorities destroyed nearly 300 heads of wild birds and animals smuggled into the city from Indonesia, for fear of bird flu infection.
The trader, identified as Mike Artocilla, 37, admitted that smuggling of wildlife stock has been going on with suppliers from the islands in Indonesia even if he knew the perils of the avian flu. Read on…
