Little Monty’s Second Chance - Part One

Parrot Blogger: Sam Williams, PhD | Dec 04, 2010

Bonaire is a dry island full of cacti and baked earth and yet this morning like many in the last month it is raining cats and dogs. The dirt track leading to my little house is no longer a track at all but a veritable lake. This morning’s inundation of yet more water is however a good thing. This...

Time for the truth about Kea nest success

Parrot Blogger: Brent Barrett | Nov 16, 2010

We are just half way through our third season of kea nest monitoring in the lowland forest and already we have staggering results. The following link gives you a close up of our progress. Kea Research Youtube

In the first year of this work we found only two kea nests, one by accident (or fate) and...

This year’s parrot season

Parrot Blogger: Sam Williams, PhD | Nov 09, 2010

I was intending to tell you more about the project back in May but the fact I haven’t done so until now kind of tells you a lot about the project. If you will allow me to do so now then I’ll try and tell you what we got up to this year.

We, the parrot team were a fellowship of five. The...

Java moustached or Red-breasted parakeet

Parrot Blogger: Ria Winters | Oct 10, 2010

A few weeks ago I visited a small natural history museum in the North of Holland.

Its interior was left the way it was designed some hundred years ago. Wooden displays with birds and animals from the colonial days. There was no geographical order in the exhibition; a tiger stood next to a kangaroo...