2009 – Issue 3
Editor’s Notes
We’re really getting into the swing of our magazine now, and hope that you’re enjoying not only the latest offerings from us, but also the ability to revisit items and articles which appeared in our previous issues.
Our Featured Article this month is a detailed study by Thomas White, Gordon Brown and James Collazo of the meticulous process undertaken by the Puerto Rican Parrot in its selection of a suitable nesting site. It delivers some interesting results.
Our category In the Wild also features The Lymington Foundation. Bill Wittkoff tells how the Foundation came into being, what it has achieved, and what it continues to achieve for the conservation of the indigenous parrots of Brazil.
Rosemary Low raises the subject of the plight of New Zealand’s parrots in the 21st century, which she says give Serious Cause for Concern, since parrot numbers in the last century have declined dramatically.
For Companion birds, Susan Friedman PhD, a highly respected authority on learning and behaviour, gives us some Straight Talk About Behaviour in parrots. Dorothy Schwarz deals with the subject of Unwanted Birds, sharing with us her happy, sometimes sad, but always engaging experiences of the rescued birds in her flock, and Gudrun Maybaum writes about maintaining the balance between what our parrots like to eat and what they should eat.
In Making a Difference, Stewart Metz and Bonnie Zimmerman focus on the work of the Indonesian Parrot Project in Reducing the Trapping of Endangered Parrots - the underlying causes of this practice, and what is being done to turn the situation around.
Our news items cover a wide range of topics, from the first footage of the world’s smallest parrot, to the monitoring of the migration of Australia’s rarest parrot, and our blogs are updated regularly to enable you to keep abreast of those topics that interest you most.
Please don’t forget that we’d love to hear from anyone who’d like to contribute an article. If you have a story about any aspect of the world of the parrot, we’d like to hear it, so do send it to me at: editor@parrotsinternational.org.
We like to publish as wide a range of opinions as possible, but wish to make it clear that the views expressed by contributors to PI Press do not necessarily reflect those of the editorial team or of Parrots International.
Gilly Lloyd
2009 – Issue 3 Articles
The root causes of parrot trapping are multifactorial. Despite this, there is a tendency, probably ill-placed, to focus overly on …
Are birds considered anything more than an object we can buy and sell? At present the answer is that they …
Between all the different diets that we can find these days, there is one called intuitive eating. It teaches us …
New Zealand (104,000 sq miles) is slightly larger than the UK (94,500 sq miles), yet it has a human population …
