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The bird which stopped a $220 million wind farm development is now about to come into the money itself, through a $3.2 million federal government investment in its future. Read on…

But many more are under threat

Some of the most beautiful and rare types of birds, ranging from the Norfolk Island green parrot to the Mauritius parakeet, were critically endangered in 1994 with populations less than 100. Dr Stuart Butchart, an expert with the British-based group BirdLife International, has now conducted a global audit of 27 of the threatened species. Read on…

Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP)Press release

On the 14th, July 2006, the Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP), owned by HE Sheikh Saoud Bin Mohammad Bin Ali Al-Thani, successfully hatched their first Lear’s Macaw (Anodorhynchus leari) chick. AWWP keeps four pairs of Lear’s Macaws, which have been on loan from the Brazilian Government since 2004. The species has proven challenging to breed in captivity and until this most recent hatching, the species had not officially been successfully bred since 1984. The breeding pair at AWWP laid a clutch of three eggs, two of which were fertile. The fertile egg which did not hatch died very early in development and could only be determined as being fertile during an egg necropsy. Read on…

By Ernest Gill

Hamburg - In a discovery that is likely to rekindle the debate about language in the animal kingdom, researchers in Germany have discovered that some parrots appear to give their offspring individual names.

Animal behavioural scientists at the University of Hamburg say that spectacled parrotlets use a distinctive call for each of their chicks, with no two chicks being given the same ‘name’ call. Read on…

Parrot’s endangered list nomination threatens wind farms

A submission to list the orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) as critically endangered, could put an end to wind farms in Tasmania, South Australia and Victoria.

The federal Department of Environment and Heritage has nominated the parrot based on a report into bird collisions with wind farms. Read on…

By LR Jagadheesan, BBC News, Madras

Two parrots owned by 15-year-old Tamil refugee Bhovana Nishanthini Lombert mean absolutely everything to her.

15-year-old Tamil refugee Bhovana Nishanthini Lombert with her parrots Bhovana says that she loves the parrots as much as her family. So devoted is the teenager to her feathered friends that she was willing to take them and nothing else in the arduous journey by sea from war-torn Sri Lanka to a refugee camp in the south of India. Read on…

The Australian

It was the bulge in his groin area that alerted Customs officers something was amiss with the passenger about to board a flight from Sydney to Bangkok.

Pressed for an explanation, Wayne Frederick Floyd only made matters worse when he told suspicious officers: “I had a hernia, sometimes my testicle rises”. Read on…

Peterborough Evening Telegraph, UK

Britain’s most popular talking parrot, the African grey, is under threat, wildlife campaigners have warned.

According to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), numbers of the parrot are declining in the 23 countries in which it is found as a result of the trade in wild birds.

As such trading quotas will have to be reassessed for the third time at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which opens tomorrow. Read on…

by Linda P. Myers

As the mangos ripen, and because there is very little food in the remaining forests since Hurricane Ivan, wild parrots are converging on the farms – the only places they can find food. Farmers, seeing so many parrots, believe that there are still as many as before the storm, so they are shooting the parrots as they come in to feed on the mangos. Read on…

BBC

The High Court has ruled the sale of birds as pets at the Parrot Society show in Stafford is unlawful. Read on…