Reconnaissance Mission to Australia

Parrot Blogger: Christina Zdenek | Sep 30, 2012

After completing my 3-yr-long masters on Palm Cockatoos and getting it accepted by The Australian National University, I took 4 months to top up my funds and climb some trees. I was an installation manager for Mobile Illumination, Inc., wrapping big trees with Christmas lights for, basically, the...

Red Bellied Macaw Chronicles Part 2: How It All Began

Parrot Blogger: Evet Loewen | Sep 20, 2012

How did it all begin?  That journey to having Red Bellied Macaws in my life for more than a decade?

It began totally the wrong way.  It began the way that 95% of parrot owners decide that they’d like to have a parrot (I made that percentage up, so please don’t get upset if you think it is an...

The Red Bellied Macaw Chronicles

Parrot Blogger: Evet Loewen | Sep 03, 2012

There’s no clear, logical reason why I started searching, in the Spring of 2000, to find red bellied macaws to bring into my flock of mini-macaws. Perhaps the only reason was that I had several species of mini-macaws, and thought it would be “interesting” to have more. That’s not so much a reason...

Biscuit’s Great Escape - The Conclusion

Parrot Blogger: Sam Williams, PhD | Mar 13, 2012

Biscuit was alive. It was incredible because breaking his leg at such a young age would have normally resulted in his very own personal extinction. Back then he couldn’t even feed himself, but despite his many and malicious protests the parrot team persevered and Biscuit as a result had not died a...