November 17th, 2011
Baby Blue-fronted Amazon Parrot
The Canadian Parrot Conference organizes an annual Pennies4Parrots Challenge each year encouraging parrot clubs, pet stores and other organizations to collect pennies and coins for a year to be donated to a ...
November 17th, 2011
It takes a lot of hands to feed 517 baby Amazon Parrots.This video was produced and posted online to show the hard work that is being accomplished and to thank everyone involved in helping all ...
October 31st, 2011
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October 17th, 2011
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This week Parrots International responded to the confiscation of 517 Amazon parrot chicks from illegal traffic/smugglers in Pernambuco, Brazil. The intercepted shipment is mostly Blue-fronted Amazon chicks (Amazona aestiva) and Yellow-faced Amazon chicks (Amazona ...
September 29th, 2011
Welcome to the new PI Press, Parrots International official blog site. It includes the latest news from Parrots International activities, real time stories from the field and so much more.
November 25th, 2009
The root causes of parrot trapping are multifactorial. Despite this, there is a tendency, probably ill-placed, to focus overly on legal measures designed to reduce poaching. However, by the time parrots, cockatoos and lorikeets can be recovered from the authorities, their fate is practically sealed and is usually characterized either by death, or a lifetime of neglect, poor treatment and imprisonment in tiny cages.
November 23rd, 2009
Are birds considered anything more than an object we can buy and sell? At present the answer is that they aren't. They are classed as pets. Pets are bred for our amusement and pleasure. This is a profitable business, not only for breeders, but also for traders supplying birds' food, equipment and toys. Opposing these practices are welfare organizations and charities, many of which are written about in the avian press.
November 23rd, 2009
The Puerto Rican Parrot is unique in that, since 2001, all known nesting in the wild has occurred in standardized artificial cavities, which also provided us a unique opportunity to evaluate nest site selection without confounding effects of the actual nest cavity characteristics.
November 23rd, 2009
Between all the different diets that we can find these days, there is one called intuitive eating. It teaches us how to get in touch with our body and recognize the messages it gives us.
November 23rd, 2009
We fell in love with parrots in the last century (1998) when we got our first pair of Amazons for Christmas. Then fortune gave us an unsexed pair of Blue and Golds which, on being set up in a small apartment, decided to become prolific and give us 16 babies, one clutch after another. In 2000 we started to get serious, with the acquisition of a breeding license from the ministry of environment (IBAMA).
November 23rd, 2009
Have you ever heard the expression, "It's like herdin' cats"? That describes some of the best days working on our internet list, Parrot Behavior Analysis Solutions (PBAS; www.yahoogroups.com).
PBAS is not a chat group; it's a special interest work group dedicated to applying the scientific principles of behavior to living and learning with companion parrots.
November 23rd, 2009
An insidious disease that attacks parrots around the world is now one step closer to easy detection, thanks to researchers at the Ontario Veterinary College and the Animal Health Laboratory at the University of Guelph. A new screening test for Avian Bornavirus is now available in Canada only through the Animal Health Laboratory.
