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Suzan Payne

June 16th, 2009 Suzan Payne Thanks to Suzan Payne for her donations to the Parrots International Symposium 2009 silent auction.

Omar and Carolyn Gonzalez

June 16th, 2009 Omar and Carolyn Gonzalez        Thanks to Omar and Carolyn Gonzalez of Zoomar’s and Omar’s Exotics for their donation of $2700 to Parrots International “Where the Need is Greatest”. Thanks to Omar and Carolyn Gonzalez of Zoomar’s and Omar’s Exotics ...

Guillermo Ramis and Paradigm Associates

June 16th, 2009 Guillermo Ramis and Paradigm Associates Special thanks to Guillermo Ramis and Paradigm Associates for his generous donations of silent auction hotel packages and his untiring support of Parrots International since its inception. Guillermo has been a major supporter of the ...

Carole Lambert and the Greater Cincinnati Bird Club

June 16th, 2009 Carole Lambert and the Greater Cincinnati Bird Club Thanks to Carole Lambert and the Greater Cincinnati Bird Club for donating $500 to the Spix’s Macaw Project and the Spix’s Macaw School

Ruth Kain

June 16th, 2009 Ruth Kain Thanks to Ruth Kain for her $500 donation to Parrots International. Ruth’s directed her donation to go to “where the need is greatest”. Ruth has also worked tirelessly on the Parrots International Symposium Committee and ...

Kurt Kolle and Rainforest Expeditions

June 16th, 2009 Kurt Kolle and Rainforest Expeditions Thanks to Kurt Kolle and Rainforest Expeditions for the donation of a trip for two to Tambopata, Peru to benefit the Parrots International Symposium 2009 silent auction.

Nathalie Lemieux

June 16th, 2009 Nathalie Lemieux Special thanks to Nathalie Lemieux of Guelph, Ontario, for all of her technical assistance and help with the Parrots International web site and PI Press Magazine. Nathalie with Coco, her Congo African Grey Parrot and Krys, ...

Anna Croukamp/Foz Iguacu Bird Park

June 16th, 2009 Anna Croukamp/Foz Iguacu Bird Park Thanks to Anna Croukamp of The Foz Iguacu Bird Park in Brazil for her generous sponsorship of three speakers that presented at the Parrots International Symposium 2009. p/p> Anna Croukamp

Congratulations to the Slender-billed Conure Project and Ana Bertoldi

May 4th, 2009 Congratulations to the Slender-billed Conure Project and Ana Bertoldi Great news for Ana Bertoldi, the Master Student from the Universidad de Los Lagos, Chile, who was the lead research student on the Parrots International supported Slender-billed Conure Project.

Parrots International Attends Meetings for Spix’s and Lear’s Macaws

April 18th, 2009 Parrots International Attends Meetings for Spix’s and Lear’s Macaws March 2009 marked two very important meetings for endangered parrots: the meeting of The Working Group for the Recovery of the Spix’s Macaw, and the meeting of the Committee for the Conservation and Management of ...

Challenges of Tracking Birds

February 16th, 2009 Challenges of Tracking Birds A message from Ana to everyone: Dear Tom, Mark, Marie and Jaime I am monitoring the birds each 2 days. Each day the things are gettingworst. I am spending more than 14 hours in the field and ...

More Good News from Yesterday!

January 26th, 2009 More Good News from Yesterday! We have more good news from yesterday. At Inia we checked two of our known nests (5 and 7 full grown chicks, see pictures), and could collar 3 new birds (we have only one collar ...

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