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Personal online journals of parrot
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New Year’s Day chicks

Parrot Blogger: Toa Kyle | Jan 12, 2007

More good news, another 3 chicks have fledged for the season, this time all from the 7 islas area. I flew in on New Year’s Eve to relieve some of our field team of duties. One guy had a bad ear infection that required immediate medical attention and some others were simply burnt out from being in...

December

Parrot Blogger: Sam Williams, PhD | Dec 17, 2006

Things in the office are going well. This month I had to give a presentation in the department and before that I wanted to get some statistics done. From the data I collected I can show how the parrots are associated with habitat structure and other species of birds that are present. I’ve also...

First nest fledges

Parrot Blogger: Toa Kyle | Dec 15, 2006

Looking over the past few things I’ve posted I’m wondering if I’m depressing readers; nests failing, adults hemorrhaging, etc. It’s a nice change then to write about the first nest of the season to fledge young. I flew out to the area to verify it myself. Part of me was secretly hoping to...

Nest 20 predated

Parrot Blogger: Toa Kyle | Nov 23, 2006

We’ve lost nest 20 to predation. I mentioned before that when a chick is over 300g its predation risk is lowered. Nest 20 has proved to be an exception. One of our crew went to check on this nest the other morning to find a distressed nesting pair and numerous vultures circling above the nest. ...