Bird Strikes. What next?!

Parrot Blogger: Mira Tweti | Feb 05, 2009

Nothing has irked so much in the last two weeks as the constant reference to a "bird strike" as the reason the US Airways planet was forced to land in the Hudson river on 1/15. As if a bird could strike a plane. The plane collided with the birds is what happened and perhaps if there was more...

Rodrigues Parakeet

Parrot Blogger: Ria Winters | Jan 04, 2009

My first new year blog is about the Rodrigues Parakeet, also called Newton’s Parakeet or Exiled Ring-Necked Parakeet, Latin name: Psittacula exsul. It is an extinct species endemic to the forests of the island of Rodrigues which is the third Mascarene Island besides Mauritius and Reunion.

It was...

Is time running out for Ground Parrots

Parrot Blogger: Brent Barrett | Dec 23, 2008

There is no doubt that the fire regime empoyed during land clearing and grazing times in Western Australia had a huge impact on the availability of habitat for Western Ground Parrots.  The complex heath that WGP’s occupy is typically devoid of large trees and therefore easy to clear with few...

Levaillant and African Greys

Parrot Blogger: Ria Winters | Nov 09, 2008

I don’t live far from Amsterdam and have close access to zoological and ornithological book collections that are in the Artis Library and in the Zoological museum of the University of Amsterdam.

Both have old and rare books. I visit these libraries to acquire information about extinct parrot...