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Rodrigues Parakeet

Parrot Blogger: Ria Winters | Jan 04, 2009

My first new year blog is about the Rodrigues Parakeet, also called Newton’s Parakeet or Exiled Ring-Necked Parakeet, Latin name: Psittacula exsul. It is an extinct species endemic to the forests of the island of Rodrigues which is the third Mascarene Island besides Mauritius and Reunion.

It was...

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...

Long time, no blog!

Parrot Blogger: David Woolcock | Jun 17, 2008

Cannot believe that it has been over a year since my last entry. So what's new?

Well since I last wrote three of our keepers have thrown themselves out of an aircraft to raise funds for a new penguin exhibit (I think their total raised so far exceeds £18,000!), two of our show team have been...

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...