Conservation and Research
Season review and results
Parrot Blogger: Sam Williams, PhD | Dec 23, 2007
The 2007 field season was a busy one! This was for good reason and the efforts we put in have certainly been worthwhile. Good data has been collected and those precious numbers are revealing patterns that mean this or that, but more about them in a moment. First a recap of the season... Before even...
Continue ReadingAlone 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,...
Continue ReadingTo 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...
Continue ReadingHERE, 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...
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