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Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP)
The picture shows the first 7 Spix’s macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) chicks of the 2006 breeding season at Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP).
These seven birds represent almost 10% of the entire known world population of this species. Together with the off-spring reared in 2004 and 2005, the AWWP has now successfully bred 12 Spix’s macaws. Read on…
Preliminary results from the annual national census of the endangered Cape Parrot (Poicephalus robustus), the only parrot endemic to South Africa, are positive, suggesting more birds have been seen than in previous years.
A member of the Cape Parrot Working Group and the co-ordinator of the research, Professor Colleen Downs of the Pietermaritzburg campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, said that during this year’s count over the first weekend in May, some flocks of juvenile parrots were seen, which was very encouraging. Read on…
CAROL MCALICE CURRIE, Statesman Journal
Turner specialist works with owners to allow their feathered pets to flap free.
To clip or not to clip? Read on…
OUTSPOKEN Liberal backbencher Graham Gunn has given Parliament the “recipe” for a poison to kill thousands of corellas in the state’s Mid North in a bid to cut their numbers. Read on…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation today celebrated the efforts of numerous organizations and individuals to acquire funding necessary for construction of a new Puerto Rican parrot aviary in El Yunque Caribbean National Forest. Congress authorized $1.7 million to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the project in 2003, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation worked with numerous groups to raise an additional $700,000 for its completion. Read on…
Research bolsters case for Philippine conservation
CHICAGO — Scientists have discovered two new species — a parrot and a mouse — that live only on a small island in the Philippines. This island, Camiguin, is the smallest Philippine island, of which there are 7,000, known to support a bird or mammal species that is endemic (lives nowhere else).
The scientists’ research, which is embargoed, is described in the April 5 issue of Fieldiana: Zoology, a peer-reviewed, scientific journal about biodiversity research published by The Field Museum. Read on…
The Rasa Island in barangay Panacan, Narra, Palawan, home of the critically endangered red-vented Philippine cockatoo, was declared as wildlife sanctuary by President Gloria Mapacagal Arroyo. Read on…
Pet lovers have dumped parrots worth up to £3,000 each because of bird flu fears, it emerged last night. Read on…
New Era (Windhoek) Namibia.
Conservationists and bird lovers want to go into cooperation with the Protected Resources Unit to clean up the illegal trade in parrots. Read on…
An ornithologist who set up a dating agency for lonely parrots says it has been a huge success. Read on…
