Parroting around - Mountain to the Sea

Parrot Blogger: Brent Barrett | Mar 09, 2010

Globally parrots occupy vastly diverse habitats, obviously not in the northern continents but certainly in the southern regions.  In Ushaia there is a parrot that lives amongst the valleys that bisect the southern tip of the Andies.  In the Amazon birds swelter under blazing suns.  Gang-gangs...

Conditions inside parrot nests

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

In the February 2010 PsittaScene article about the yellow-shouldered amazons on Bonaire I briefly discussed how hatchability is a problem for the population on Bonaire and how we use dataloggers to record nest environmental conditions. I’d like to use my blog to explain a little further and show...

Oops

Parrot Blogger: Nikki Buxton | Feb 23, 2010

It's confession time.

Much as I would like you all to feel as smug about the releases as I did when I wrote my last blog, I can't keep up the pretence any longer.

We had a call the other day from a neighbour a mile or so down the road who was merrily hand-feeding Chac & Chell bread, thank you...

Freedom!

Parrot Blogger: Nikki Buxton | Feb 20, 2010

It's been a while, and I apologise.

Exciting things have been happening, probably the most of which is our Big New Release. We let go 13 birds in the end, a mix of 4 white fronted (Amazona albifrons) and 8 red loreds (Amazona autumnalis).

The birds had been ready for a week or so, but we waited...