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...

Evacuation: Final Blog for the 2007-08 Season

Parrot Blogger: Sarah Faegre | Oct 23, 2008

This final blog tells the story of our evacuation from our flooded field site and sums up some of the seasons high points.

February 17 2008

I am writing to you from the partially flooded city of Trinidad, Bolivia after a complicated 3-day evacuation (by boat) from the field site where we were...

Leaving Encanta

Parrot Blogger: Sarah Faegre | Oct 07, 2008

A new turn for the worse give us a final conclusion to the nest of Encanta and allows us to confirm the neither eggs was viable. Now we make the most of our last days with here with the family and try to escape before the flood turns deadly.

February 10th

Today I turn 26.  We are stranded in the...