Alone on Isla Chiquita, listening to the Rare-maned Wolf

Parrot Blogger: Sarah Faegre | Dec 23, 2007

I spend a few days alone at the camp, while Vicente helps caravan all the other volunteers across savannahs and rivers to an estancia on higher ground. The four of them, Carlos, Sarah D., Matthew and Jose, have finished their time with the project and will wait to be picked up by a small plane,...

To Fly or To Fall

Parrot Blogger: Sarah Faegre | Dec 20, 2007

Goliath is out of the nest, and I was lucky enough to witness the event!

19 December 2007

It is 6 a.m. when I arrive at the blind.  I have been watching this nest every day for a month now and for the past week Goliath, the larger of the two chicks, has been poking his head out of the cavity...

HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE - THE FIRST PARROT WELFARE CHILDREN’S BOOK - TAKES FLIGHT

Parrot Blogger: Mira Tweti | Dec 20, 2007

It's been quite an odyssey taking my parrot-welfare children's story, Here, There and Everywhere from eight typed sheets of paper to a 48-page hardcover book with 45 illustrations, in less than a year and becoming a publisher in the process!

Here, There and Everywhere is the first parrot-welfare...

Goliath is taking his first looks at the outside world

Parrot Blogger: Sarah Faegre | Dec 15, 2007

The BTM pair of Vaca Muerta are mourning their loss, but on the other side of camp, the Isla 2 chicks are almost ready to leave their nest...

December 13th

A hot, humid mid-day.  Muy pesado, el aire.  Yesterday Carlos and I walked to Vaca Muerta in the late afternoon, looking at birds and...