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BBC

A parrot keeper is to spend eight hours sitting on a wooden perch on Tuesday to highlight the welfare of pet birds. Read on…

Rex Dalton

San Diego - An application from Argentina to export parrots as pets to the United States has sent feathers flying among ecologists, some of whom say it would deplete populations in the wild. Read on…

By Anna Borzello BBC, Lagos

Conservationists in Nigeria are concerned by a growing trade in the export of grey parrots from Nigeria and neighbouring Cameroon. Read on…

By Alex Kirby,BBC News Online environment correspondent

The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short. Read on…

WPT

A Spix’s Macaw, the world’s rarest parrot, made a long flight home today from Colorado to Brazil, 25 years after being taken from the wild, smuggled to Europe, and subsequently to the USA. With luck, this avian “Rip Van Winkle” will provide the genetic shot-in-the-arm that the species needs to bring it back from the brink of extinction. The iridescent indigo-blue macaw with a long sweeping tail is a unique bird. Never common, the Spix’s became extinct in the wild two years ago following decades of decline from trapping and habitat loss. Read on…

WPT

This July 28, researchers with ProAves Colombia, supported by American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and the World Parrot Trust (WPT), photographed one of the world’s rarest parrots in the high Andes of Colombia confirming the survival of this long lost species. Colombian ornithologists Jorge Velasquez and Alonso Quevedo found a flock of 14 Fuertes’s Parrots in a remote area of the central Andes close to Los Nevados National Park. Read on…

Arthur Grosset’s Birds

The Bald Parrot caused a sensation when it was described in 2002 mainly because it is hard to believe that such a large and colourful bird could have escaped the notice of the world. Read on…

Northern Echo

The average tourist will often rub their eyes in disbelief when they spot them. But to the residents of Kirkby Stephen, in Cumbria, the dozens of exotic birds who swoop over their heads on a daily basis is a familiar sight.

The 50 or so magnificent parrots and parakeets belong to bird fancier and staunch conservationist John Strutt, who set up the wildlife charity the John Strutt Conservation Foundation eight years ago. Read on…

By Alex Kirby, BBC News Online environment correspondent

Two months ago the world could boast just 62 kakapo, the world’s rarest parrot.

Today that number has risen by a third, to 84 birds, thanks to a bumper brood of chicks. Read on…

Danny Kingsley – ABC Science Online

Budgerigars use fluorescent colouring in their feathers to attract mates, a team of researchers based at the University of Queensland has discovered. Read on…