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Luton Today

Owner climbs on to a roof to catch his beloved bird Read on…

The Age by Ari Sharp

Melbourne’s Arts Centre spire is under attack from a small but persistent flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos, but a group of trained raptors may be the landmark’s saviour. Read on…

By Amy Crawford Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Steve Baldwin spotted the first handful of bright green quaker parrots at the grassy margin of an Astroturf soccer field. Excitedly, he pointed them out to the dozen people who had signed up for what he calls a “wild parrot safari”.

“They’re doing what they love to do on a day like this — come down and forage,” Baldwin said, as the birders snapped pictures. “They like to eat grass, clover, weeds. When the sun hits them, they glow, like an emerald color.”

Suddenly something spooked the birds, and they took off, squawking loudly and swooping through the air, to land in a nearby oak tree and on the roof of an apartment building.

“Yeah, they like to roost in that tree,” said Baldwin. “It’s safe from predators.” Read on…

The Star-Ledger

If you want to experience a taste of the tropics here in the Garden State, you must visit the monk parakeet colony in Edgewater. Read on…

Seattle Times

Sharon Matola, the “Zoo Lady” of Belize, is an unlikely environmental hero. A one-time Iowa housewife, she trained in jungle survival with the Air Force, rode freights to Florida to study animal behavior and apprenticed to a Romanian tiger tamer. Later she worked as a circus dancer (with tigers) in Mexico. In the early 1980s, she helped film a nature documentary in Belize. At the end of the shoot, she inherited 20 exotic jungle animals, and the Belize Zoo was born.

A quarter-century later, Matola is a widely respected authority on the scarlet macaw and other tropical species. Her zoo is among the most popular tourist attractions in Belize. And she is successfully restoring harpy eagles and other threatened species to the Belize jungle. Read on…

Scoop.co.nz

In a world first, Otago film company ELWIN Productions is using new High Definition technology to document a remarkable story following the struggle to bring the world’s rarest wild parrot back from the brink of extinction.

‘Code of the Kakapo’, a co-production between ELWIN Productions in Dunedin and Huntaway Homestead Films in Queenstown, is an intimate look at one of the world’s leading conservation programmes.

This is the third year of filming the Department of Conservation’s elite Kakapo Recovery Team on Codfish Island and ELWIN Productions filmmaker Scott Mouat says that the 90 minute feature-length film will be the first of its kind in both content and technology used. Read on…

Medill Reports by Angela Nitzke

Trudging along the snow-covered streets of Hyde Park, you hear chirping and screeching resembling the sound of Styrofoam pieces rubbing together. You look up and see a bright green and blue parakeet. You may think that all the cold and snow has finally made you go mad, but there really are tropical birds that have colonized on the South Side of Chicago. They are called monk parakeets. Read on…

ABC news

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…

Lancaster Newspapers

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…