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...

WPT help to confiscated Amazons

Parrot Blogger: Andre Saidenberg | Oct 03, 2010

While you are probably aware of the several confiscations happening in Congo, Indonesia and other parts of the world and that thanks to the timely help of World Parrot Trust and several dedicated partners and individuals these birds have their second chance of survival; in Brazil it is no different...

Once there was a parrot filled forest

Parrot Blogger: Brent Barrett | Sep 17, 2010

The lowland kea of Westland National Park have never been previously investigated with the exception of cognitive tests. As usual we may never know the answer to why they choose to live here and how they adapted to forage in the lush temperate rain forests after so long in the harsh mountains. But...