COVID-19: A message From Executive Director, Jamie Gilardi

Parrot Blogger: Jamie Gilardi, PhD | Mar 21, 2020

As I write today, I was meant to be on a plane heading for Puerto Rico, where our partners had planned to release a new group of parrots into the wild – a wonderfully hopeful step to aid the recovery of one of the world’s rarest birds, the Puerto Rican Amazon.  As it turns out, both Puerto Rico and...

February Flock Talk

Parrot Blogger: World Parrot Trust - Staff | Feb 24, 2020

Have you read the February Flock Talk yet?

First off, a group of Grey Parrots that were originally confiscated in Europe have finally made it to the Kiwa Center in the UK, and good, ongoing progress is being made for Yellow-shouldered Amazons on the island of Bonaire. We also take a fun look at...

Arrival of grey parrots to Kiwa Centre UK

Parrot Blogger: World Parrot Trust - Staff | Jan 31, 2020

We would like to announce the arrival of 50 African Grey parrots at our Kiwa Centre in the UK. They are part of two groups that were confiscated in Hungary and in Bulgaria in 2014. Following the legal proceedings that assigned ownership of the parrots to the two governments, the WPT was asked to...

2019 WPT Highlights

Parrot Blogger: World Parrot Trust - Staff | Dec 31, 2019

As the World Parrot Trust turns 30, it’s astounding to see just how much has changed in the parrot world in that time. And as 2019 comes to a close, we pause to take stock of all that’s happened over the last 12-plus months. 

While 2019 did have its challenges – particularly for our partners in...