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Veterinarians in south-east Queensland are trying to get a better understanding of a disease that attacks the beaks, feathers and immune systems of wild birds.
Professionals at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on the Gold Coast, Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast and the University of Queensland are studying the contagious virus that affects birds like lorikeets, parrots and cockatoos. Read on…
Australian King parrots are fighting for their lives after a nasty strain of spironucleus has seen the usually excitable birds turn limp and lifeless.
Spironucleus is a one-cell parasite, which lives and multiplies in the bird’s stomach eating away at the lining of its bowel until the bird becomes too weak to fly and eventually dies. Read on…
Federal customs agents seized 10 exotic birds that a driver allegedly tried to smuggle into the U.S. last week by hiding them in containers covered by heaps of clothing.
The driver, identified only as a 60-year-old man, kept a pair each of Amazon parrots, parakeets, finches, Monk parakeets and chickens in cages and cardboard boxes inside a sport utility vehicle, authorities said. He was caught as he was passing through the Mariposa Port of Entry on July 2, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Read on…
Pet owner Nick Paton has helped cure his parrot of a chest infection - by taking him into the shower.
Nick, 33, takes Tocky the parrot into the shower cubicle with him every night for 20 minutes while he washes. Read on…
A new parrot sanctuary aids in recovery for patients at the West L.A. veterans hospital
Los Angeles City Beat By Allison Milionis
Matthew H. Simons isn’t the kind of guy you would imagine spoon-feeding warm oatmeal to a middle-age cockatoo. The burly six-foot Desert Storm and Desert Shield veteran seems more like a big-dog guy and six months ago he would have agreed. But Simons has changed. Since being assigned to the Serenity Park Sanctuary, a non-profit parrot refuge on the grounds of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Westwood, Simons has acquired a new appreciation for birds.
Simons, 33, works at the sanctuary nearly every day. It’s an essential part of his treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and related behavioral problems that have plagued him for the past decade. “I like to say that working with birds is kind of like Prozac,” he says. “You have to be gentle and calm, something that I’ve never been before.” Read on…
Another accident, this time in rural Belize, has cost a teen his life. Police reports are that on Sunday evening Rockstone Pond residents sixteen year old Edison Zelaya and twenty-five year old Terryl Cunha were hunting for parrots near Maskall Village. Read on…
Jim Eggers looks like any other Maplewood resident who sometimes travels with a backpack, but there aren’t snacks or books in the pack.
Instead, there’s a big, gray parrot in the pack, inside its cage. The parrot is Egger’s service animal and he’s got the registration papers to prove it.
Eggers, 33, is bipolar and suffers mood swings and bursts of anger. He’s trained Sadie, his parrot, to help him through those difficult times. In addition, Sadie allows Eggers to interact more naturally with strangers, something that has proved difficult for him. Read on…
ALMATY - Dozens of parrots seized from a smuggler by Kazakh police died of hunger and thirst before they could be handed over to a zoo, Kazakh media said on Wednesday. Read on…
By DREW EARY; Martinsville Bulletin
Donna Draper, the unit administrative assistant for the Henry County Virginia Cooperative Extension Office, rarely commutes to work alone. Instead, she takes one of her pet parrots with her.
Kaloca, a 13-inch Hahns Mini-Macaw, travels with Draper to work in a carrier each morning and spends most of her time in her office in a cage.
“Kaloca loves to come to work,” Draper said. “I just started bringing her to work about a year ago because she is good company. I carry her around in a carrier, and whenever I get the carrier out, she starts hollering so that she can get in and go to work.” Read on…
PHOENIX - University of Georgia scientists are finalizing development of a new vaccine that could effectively eliminate in companion bird populations a debilitating and often fatal viral disease called psittacine beak and feather disease.
The virus has decimated some free-ranging populations of cockatoos and has historically been a problem for companion-bird lovers from around the globe. The virus is not contagious to humans or other pets. Read on…
