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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…

ANGIE BROWN

East African parrots are breeding in the wild in Scotland for the first time, after setting up home in a coastal town.

Peach-faced lovebirds, which have bright green plumage, have been sighted rearing young in Dunbar, East Lothian. Read on…

Orange-fronted parakeet recovery update
scoop.co.nz

Progress with the orange-fronted käkäriki (parakeet) recovery programme is currently exceeding expectations with 21 healthy käkäriki now held in captivity. 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…

Sovon

After the successful Year of the Kingfisher in 2002 and the Great Bittern in 2003 we have now arrived at the year of the outsider in Dutch avifauna; the Ring-necked parakeet. We do not know much about this stranger who broke free and settled in the big cities of the west of the Netherlands. Where do they breed and how many are there? We do not know because we do not yet have the best method for counting them. According to data in the SOVON broedvogelatlas (breeding bird guide) there should be around 220 breeding pairs in the Netherlands. There are indications however that this is less than the actual number. 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…

Annie Nakao, Chronicle Staff Writer

They swoop down like winged hang gliders, cloaked in velvety green and red, squawking imperiously to announce their arrival in Mark Bittner’s cherry tree. Read on…

Bruce Neville

The Red-crowned Parrot (Amazona viridigenalis) is a popular species in the pet trade, where it is often known as the Green-cheeked Parrot. It is native to the eastern coast of Mexico and was one of the first of the amazons to appear in numbers in South Florida. Read on…

BirdLife International

Proyecto Hapalopsittaca, a previous BP Conservation Programme Award winner, is one of only two projects to have been granted a follow-up Consolidation Award of US$75,000. Last year the team shot to fame after their dramatic rediscovery of Fuertes’s Parrot (Hapalopsittaca fuertsi) (also known as Indigo-winged Parrot). The second Consolidation Award went to a team carrying out research, education and conservation work in the remote spiny forests of southern and central Madagascar. Read on…