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Dave Bakke Column
Del Nejmanowski is a colorful, controversial character in Carlinville. At 81 years old, Del has been on top of the heap and near the bottom as well, carrying wads of cash during the fat years and all but broke in the lean times.
Through his highs and lows, one thing has remained constant - his birds. Read on…
First European seminar of behavior and free flight training will take place at 11-13 May 2007 at Valbertier farm near Dijon, France. Read on…
The trade in wild birds is to be permanently banned across the European Union starting in July, EU animal health officials have decided.
The move will replace a temporary ban imposed by Brussels in 2005 as part of measures to prevent outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. Read on…
By Dorothy Schwarz, Article appeared in ‘Parrots magazine’ October 2001
I’d first heard of John Strutt in 1999 via an Internet Forum - For the Love of Greys. I was seeking advice on free flying my baby CAG hen but the subscribers advised me to clip Artha ‘for her own safety.’ In one message I was told that someone in UK free flies a flock of greys. The writer doubted whether it was possible. Fifteen months later, I had tracked John down via The Parrot Society and he had invited me to Cumbria to see for myself. Read on…
Araproject has landed in Medellin, Colombia. Where forestry student Carlos Vásquez is presently conducting a pilot study into the Wild parrots of the city.
The local zoo, Zoológico Santa Fe de MedellÃn, released several macaws in the 80ties when a local law made it illegal for the inhabitants of Colombia to own native species. Overwhelmed by the amount of macaws that were placed in their care they decided to free-range these parrots. They could come and go as they pleased. Food was available for them in aviaries. Read on…
We at Araproject always like to hear about parrots finding there freedom and readapting to a live in the wild. Here is a small story brought to us by Stewart Metz of the Indonesian Parrot Project: Read on…
A mysterious disease is threatening the endangered orange-bellied parrot.
Birds in the captive breeding program near Hobart have been in quarantine since January, when 46 nestlings were killed by the disease. Read on…
We had a most pleasant conversation recently with Jim Eggers, who was eager to tout the virtues of the Congo African Gray parrot as service animal.
Before he met Sadie, the 40-year-old Maplewood resident says, he mostly associated the concept of “service animals” with dogs. But in fact, the Americans with Disabilities Act contains an intentionally broad definition of the term: “any guide dog, signal dog, or other animal individually trained to provide assistance to an individual with a disability.” Read on…
The orange-bellied parrot, which has been cited by the federal Environment Minister in a decision to overturn approval for a wind farm, has been listed as a critically-endangered species. Read on…
A Conversation With Joseph M. Forshaw
On a sweltering afternoon this summer, Joseph M. Forshaw, an Australian ornithologist, strolled through Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, scanning the trees for feral monk parrots. No one knows how these squawking green birds, usually native to Argentina, first arrived in New York. But they thrive in wooded corners throughout the city. Read on…
