| Amazon Expedition Travel
|
 |
|
|
|
| User Functions
|
|
|
Don't have an account yet? Sign up as a New User
|
|
| Help support this site!
|
|
|
Help support this site... your donations are needed to support research, conservation, and rescue efforts.
|
|
|
|
| Major decline in wild bird populations - conservation group says |
|
Monday, January 01 2007 @ 11:26 PM UTC
Contributed by: MikeSchindlinger
Views: 4468
|
 Sunday, December 31st 2006
A local bird watching group says there is a "major decline" in wild bird populations.
According to the Guyana Amazon Tropical Birds Society (GATBS), the inability of local exporters to fill their quotas for some species highlights a big drop in the numbers of wild birds and is cause for great concern. In a statement the group says local exporters are finding it difficult to acquire some of the most demanded species on the market. Currently, parrots and macaws, which are favoured as pets abroad, are highly sought-after for trade. The Blue-and-Yellow Macaw, the Festive Parrot, the Blue Cheeked Parrot, the Caica Parrot and the Orange-winged Parrot have been identified as some of the species that have suffered a decrease in numbers. Some traders are reporting that they have not been able to acquire as little as 60 birds of one species over the past year. "This emphasises the detriment to the wild populations when extensive harvesting is being carried out without constant monitoring," the GATBS says. "Such a vast decline in the wild bird population poses a serious threat not only to the future of the bird trade but also the tourism industry which is promoting birding as a major activity."
|
|
|
| Officials to free Puerto Rican parrots |
|
Friday, November 10 2006 @ 06:21 AM UTC
Contributed by: MikeSchindlinger
Views: 5162
|
 The Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Twenty-one Puerto Rican parrots raised in captivity will be released - a first attempt to create a new population of the threatened species by reintroducing it into an area where it previously existed, U.S. wildlife officials said Wednesday.
The parrots - which are bright green with a red forehead and wings that flash turquoise in flight - will be let go at the Rio Abajo aviary in Utuado on Sunday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a statement.
|
|
|
| Game farm's animals sold to advocates |
|
Wednesday, October 25 2006 @ 12:01 AM UTC
Contributed by: MikeSchindlinger
Views: 6104
|
Birds, rhino, boar attract bidders
By Erikah Haavie, Poughkeepsie Journal
Friday, October 20, 2006
CATSKILL, NEW YORK Marc Johnson came to the Catskill Game Farm hoping to film footage for a documentary on the problems of the
exotic bird trade.
Instead, he left Wednesday with four vervet monkeys, a Patagonian cavie, a yellow-backed lorry and two African porcupines.
He wasn't planning on the porcupines, but after hearing a taxidermist might be interested in stuffing them, he bought them, too.
Johnson, a resident of Rockland, Mass., was among the animal rights advocates who purchased animals during an auction at the Catskill Game Farm this week.
|
|
|
| UK: Birds win! |
|
Friday, October 13 2006 @ 09:54 PM UTC
Contributed by: MikeSchindlinger
Views: 6378
|
 October 11, 2006 : 10:20 PM
There will be no more itinerant bird fairs in the UK!
The new Animal Welfare Bill is just about to pass in the UK Parliament, and it will put an end to the nefarious pet fairs, dotted across the UK, in which traders in wild-caught parrots sold birds cheaply to people who often bought them on a whim and had no idea how to care for them.
Many thousands of these beautiful and intelligent tropical birds never even survived the journey from their native country. They died sometime between the terrifying moment of being captured in the forest and the long, crowded, stressful ordeal of traveling hundreds of miles. Those who did survive often found themselves crammed into a traveling van, trekking around the UK from one pet fair to another until they either died or were sold.
Congratulations to Greg Glendell, Director of ParrotsFirst, to Elaine Toland, Director of the Animal Protection Agency, and to the others who have been part of this courageous and determined fight to protect wild parrots from this cruel exploitation! This was a hard-fought struggle waged over a number of years.
|
|
|
| Feathers Fly! Bird Watchers Say Parrots Are Being Pinched |
|
Tuesday, September 19 2006 @ 06:50 AM UTC
Contributed by: MikeSchindlinger
Views: 5277
|
By Joe Maniscalco - 09/14/2006
 They’ve become as ubiquitous in many parts of Brooklyn as their much less colorful cousin the pigeon. But friends of the South American Monk Parrots, introduced to Brooklyn more than 30 years ago when a shipment of birds supposedly went awry at JFK Airport, fear that the parrots are now being poached right out of their well-constructed nests located high atop telephone poles all around Midwood and Marine Park.
Robert Nadel, present of the Fraser Civic Association, said he began to suspect something was amiss about two months ago when he noticed the telltale squawking normally heard during his morning runs around Avenue I and Quentin Road had become conspicuously absent.
|
|
|
| Parrots call baby chicks by name: experts |
|
Sunday, August 20 2006 @ 12:59 AM UTC
Contributed by: MikeSchindlinger
Views: 6568
|
By IANS - Tuesday August 1, 09:23 AM
 Hamburg, Aug 1 (DPA) In a discovery that is likely to rekindle the debate about language in the animal kingdom, researchers in Germany have found that some parrots appear to give their offspring individual names.
Animal behavioural scientists at the University of Hamburg say that parrots use a distinctive call for each of their chicks, with no two chicks being given the same 'name' call.
The small South American parrots also apparently have name calls for their mates.
'The birds very definitely use a particular call exclusively with a particular bird and never for any other bird,' says Rolf Wanker, head of the Hamburg University Zoological Institute's behavioural research laboratory.
|
|
|
|
|
| Who's Online
|
|
Guest Users: 5
|
|
| Foster Parrots - Adoption and Conservation
|
|
|
|
|
| Vote
|
|
How many years have you lived with a parrot?
1815 votes | 0 comments
|
|
| Vote
|
|
Where does your parrot's species live? (Cast an additional vote for each bird you live with)
1287 votes | 3 comments
|
|
| Adopt a Parrot
|
|
|
|
|
| Current Parrot News
|
|
|
Western Ground Parrot nest discovered in Cape Arid - Esperance ExpressCussing parrot, dolphins that love TV: The wildest animal news of 2018 - CNETVermin fence poses ‘threat’ to rare parrot - The West AustralianIndonesia confiscated some 200 pet cockatoos. What happened to them? - Mongabay.comCould Machine Learning Be the Key to Better Plant Conservation? - Pacific StandardLoro Parque Fundación contributes to successful recovery of Yellow-eared Parrot in Colombia | Travel News - Travel News | eTurboNewsFive ways our partners are working to prevent the next Spix's Macaw - BirdLife InternationalCape Arid fire threatens habitat of western ground parrot - Esperance ExpressThese species went extinct in 2018. More may be doomed to follow in 2019. - USA TODAYAudio: The best wildlife calls featured on the Mongabay Newscast in 2018 - Mongabay.com10 birds that came back from the brink of extinction - Business InsiderPensacola's wildest of the wild: Our most interesting animal stories of 2018 - Pensacola News JournalThese are the animals that went extinct in 2018 - MashableProtecting Honduras’s national bird - The EconomistJan 5, National Bird Day: Quotes About Birds - Global AnimalFor the birds | News - Palo Alto OnlineUS Fish And Wildlife Provides Funding To Help Conserve The Puerto Rican Parrot - ForbesUp close and personal with exotic animals at wildlife festival in Regina - Global News'A legitimate zoo?' How an obscure German group cornered global trade in endangered parrots - The GuardianTracking Critically Endangered Swift Parrots Using Drones - ForbesFlorida's Wild Parrots Are Being Poached, Sold On the Internet, and It's Perfectly Legal - The Weather ChannelBird's Eye View: 50 years of South American bird trade - Scoop.co.nzGlobal trade in exotic pets threatens endangered parrots through the spread of a virus - Science DailyParrots, Popular Pet Birds, Threatened by Illegal Trade - National GeographicForever Gone: Eight Bird Species Confirmed Extinct This Decade - ForbesLoro Parque Foundation contributes to the successful recovery of the Yellow-eared Parrot in Colombia - EIN NewsThe 20 Weirdest Birds You've Never Heard of But Need to Know - Popular MechanicsDeadly parrot virus found in native birds from Asia and Africa - Mongabay.comBirding (Yes, Birding) Is a Multi-Billion Dollar Ecotourism Industry - The Daily BeastThis Popular Parrot 'Talks' Like Us. But We're Silencing It. - National GeographicA new action plan to tackle illegal parrot trading in Indonesia - BirdLife InternationalA quest to hatch more endangered kÄkÄpÅ eggs - Stuff.co.nzGlobal Parrot Trade Threatens All Endangered Parrots By Spreading Deadly Virus - ForbesINDONESIA: What Happens to Pet Cockatoos Confiscated From Smugglers? - The News Lens é—œéµè©•è«–網Florida's Wild Parrots Are Being Poached and It's Perfectly Legal - The Weather ChannelHere's All The Incredible Species That Went Extinct In 2018 - PRETTY52Scientists work to save Puerto Rican parrots after Hurricane Maria - The Washington Post'Blu' macaw that inspired movie Rio one of eight bird species newly listed as extinct - ABC NewsPrivate plane to fly endangered orange-bellied parrots for summer sojourn - The GuardianDigital species: Unravelling the mysteries of kÄkÄpÅ through genetics - Stuff.co.nzForeign donations prop up Australia's endangered parrot response - The GuardianA lion for a pet: Inside the untamed market for wild animals in Pakistan - Scroll.inLoro Parque Fundacion contributes to the successful recovery of the Yellow-eared Parrot in Colombia - Press Release - Digital JournalStunning Blue Macaw Species that Inspired Kids' Movie Rio Extinct From Wild - PEOPLE.comEsperance fence extension appealed by Wilderness Society - Esperance ExpressDozens of last blue macaws to be reintroduced to Brazil - Phys.OrgSwift parrot polyamory a new threat to critically endangered species' survival - The GuardianVirus that robs parrots of their plumage has spread around the globe - Nature.comBlue parrots that inspired the film 'Rio' are now thought to be extinct in the wild, study finds - indy100Eight bird species are first confirmed avian extinctions this decade - The GuardianMacaws In Danger: Bird Lovers Sound The Alarm As Numbers Dwindle - WLRNThreatened orange-bellied parrots to hitch ride on plane in effort to save species - ABC NewsParrot Genomes Provide Insights Into Evolution Of Longevity And Cognition - ForbesParrot-inspired robots track birds across remote landscapes - GeographicalLegal Poaching Is Threatening Miami's Wild Parrots - Miami New TimesBirdemic: The Great American Parrot Fever Panic of 1930 - Mental FlossWhat's happening on Long Island this weekend - East Rockaway HeraldTwo rare macaws on show at Bird Park - The Straits TimesWildlife Conservation Society - NewswiseBlue parrot featured in ‘Rio’ likely no longer exists in the wild, study concludes - KFVSTo Save Endangered Species, Should We Bring Them Into Our Cities? - SmithsonianSocial marketing campaigns can help threatened wildlife species recover - Science DailyThe 2018 Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference: our pledges - BirdLife InternationalPhotos: These animals are bouncing back from the brink of extinction - National GeographicIndigenous leaders shoulder duty of saving parrot in peril - The Sydney Morning HeraldRed-crowned parrots wander into Texas | Local News - Victoria AdvocatePuerto Rico's Parrot Population Is Slowly Recovering - Atlas ObscuraThe tragic story of America's only native parrot, now extinct for 100 years - The Conversation - USFlight of Fancy: early depictions of the parrot trade in European art - BirdLife InternationalAustin's green parrots deserve a stable home - UT The Daily TexanCreating an 'Urban Ark' for Endangered Species in Los Angeles - KCETThe wider impact of illegal wildlife trade - Phys.OrgWhat the Eight Latest Bird Extinctions Can Tell Us - Natural Resources Defense CouncilCaging parrots can put you behind bars - Mumbai LiveLincoln Park Zoo Hosts Conference on Reintroducing Endangered Species - Chicago Tonight | WTTWThis parrot was thought to be extinct in the wild — until a farmer spotted one - The Washington PostRecord numbers of Blue-throated Macaws spotted - BirdLife InternationalHey buddy, want to get rid of that python? - Sun SentinelScientists develop new way to track swift parrots - Phys.OrgSylhet Wildlife Conservation Centre to open on Friday - Dhaka TribuneDid Native Americans Breed Parrots in New Mexico 1,000 Years Ago? - D-brief - Discover MagazineIn eastern Indonesia, a bird-trafficking hotspot flies under the radar - Mongabay.comRed-Crowned Parrot Demonstrates Potential Of Moving Endangered Species To Cities - Green MattersSylhet Wildlife Conservation Centre gets first batch of animals - The Daily StarLast-ditch effort to save orange-bellied parrot from extinction - ABC OnlineThe week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment - The GuardianMating season looking positive for highly endangered orange-bellied parrot - ABC NewsHow blockchain gaming could benefit wildlife conservation - Mongabay.comThe mysterious and tragic story of the Carolina parakeet, America’s only native parrot - The Washington PostWhy Did the Carolina Parakeet Go Extinct? - SmithsonianVideo: Thousands of illegally caught African gray parrots being rehabilitated - Mongabay.comUN Wildlife Conference Bans Global Trade Of Africa's Grey Parrots - Forbes NowConservation officers forced online in fight against bird trafficking - Mongabay.comGood Job, Humans: 8 More Bird Species Confirmed Extinct - HuffPostDominica's beloved wildlife still shaky a year after Maria - Phys.OrgLondon Zoo's annual weighing of its animals could be a huge help to conservation in the wild - The IndependentField Notes: Reinvigorating wild parrot populations with captive birds - Mongabay.comSwift parrot protection agreements are being broken - Phys.Org16 animals that beat the odds and bounced back from near-extinction - Business InsiderParrot on verge of annihilation poses first hurdle for new Environment Minister - The Sydney Morning Herald
|
|
|
|
|
