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Animal rescuers say a cockatoo rescued from a tree last night had been kept alive for two weeks by his fellow feathered friends.
A rescue team was called to Kilsyth east of Melbourne overnight to rescue the sulphur-crested cockatoo. Read on…
In the face of angry opposition from pet owners, the Pennsylvania Game Commission Tuesday dropped a proposal that would have banned ownership of nanday conures, a popular South American parrot. Read on…
By Adam Brandolph: Sacramento Bee
Bird owners are raising a flap over a Pennsylvania Game Commission plan to ban a fowl some now keep as pets. Read on…
By Dr. Marty Becker and Gina Spadafori
The beak of a bird is a tool with many features. It’s a weapon that can put a dent in any enemy or damage the relationship with a friend. It can be a delicate tool for feeding a newly hatched chick or for the precise adjustment of feathers while grooming. With their beaks, birds can pick a lock, crush a walnut or peel the skin off a grape.
Beak shapes and sizes vary widely, depending mostly on the kind of food a certain species eats. The short, straight bill of canaries and other finches is ideal for plucking out seeds, grubs and other edibles. Birds of the parrot family – including budgies, cockatiels and the larger parrots such as macaws – are known as “hookbills,” because of the shape and function of their beaks. Read on…
MINSK, Veterinarians fearing cases of bird flu have destroyed 275 parrots brought into ex-Soviet Belarus illegally by a smuggler on a bicycle, a newspaper reported on Friday.
Officials this week initially said the birds, crammed into cages and abandoned by a man after he was confronted by border guards, were to be handed to pet shops after health checks.
But a lack of facilities at the border with Ukraine ultimately proved their undoing.
“By law, we could have left the parrots in quarantine for up to three days. But tests can only be conducted in Minsk,” said a veterinary service spokesman, quoted by the daily Respublika. Read on…
Two juvenile Kea have been found stapled to a road sign near Arthur’s Pass National Park.
Department Of Conservation ranger Wayne Costello says he is unsure how the native parrots died. They are being sent to Massey University for an autopsy to determine the cause. Read on…
MINSK - Border guards in Belarus said on Wednesday they had foiled an attempt to smuggle 277 parrots into the ex-Soviet state — aboard a bicycle. Read on…
Haidee Vandenberghe: Esperance Express
Although now contained, fires in the ecologically significant Fitzgerald River National Park continue to burn. Read on…
Peter Garrett has declared the orange-bellied parrot - the poster bird for green activists opposing development - to be an unlikely beneficiary of Victoria’s $1 billion channel deepening project. Read on…
The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service has given Castle Hill Country Club permission to kill native corellas which have been damaging its greens. Read on…
