Conservation
Pennies4Parrots weekend Challenge at the Canadian Parrot Conference
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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 ...
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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 ...
Video update of baby Amazon Parrots
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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 ...
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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 ...
Amazon chicks confiscated from “traffic” in Brazil
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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 ...
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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 ...
The Scarlet Macaw – is Aviculture the Answer?
By Robert Alison
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Measures being taken to halt the declining number of wild Scarlet Macaws in the neotropics
The spectacular Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) is one of several prominent macaws and large parrots in steep decline in the neotropics. Habitat loss and nest robbing have reduced their numbers to critical lows, and some local populations have disappeared entirely. Aviculture might be the key to saving some of those that remain.
By Robert Alison
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Measures being taken to halt the declining number of wild Scarlet Macaws in the neotropics
The spectacular Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) is one of several prominent macaws and large parrots in steep decline in the neotropics. Habitat loss and nest robbing have reduced their numbers to critical lows, and some local populations have disappeared entirely. Aviculture might be the key to saving some of those that remain.
Hope Grows for Birds in Brazil
By Carolyn Gonzalez
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When someone mentions Brazil, most people think of exotic retreats like Rio, says Carolyn. But when Mark and Marie Stafford invited my husband, Omar, and me to accompany them there, we knew it wouldn't be a beach party.
By Carolyn Gonzalez
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When someone mentions Brazil, most people think of exotic retreats like Rio, says Carolyn. But when Mark and Marie Stafford invited my husband, Omar, and me to accompany them there, we knew it wouldn't be a beach party.
The Macaw Reintroduction Project – Foz Iguacu
By By Mathias Dislich, DVM, staff veterinarian for the Foz Tropicana Bird Park
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The Iguacu Falls National Park attracts a large number of visitors every year, wishing to see the incredible waterfalls and to visit the last remaining rainforest in Southern Brazil.
By By Mathias Dislich, DVM, staff veterinarian for the Foz Tropicana Bird Park
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The Iguacu Falls National Park attracts a large number of visitors every year, wishing to see the incredible waterfalls and to visit the last remaining rainforest in Southern Brazil.
uPholi* Want a Forest – the Plight of the Cape Parrot
By Steve Boyes
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Status
Parrots have the largest number of threatened species of any bird family, whereby over 90 of the 332 recognized parrot species in the world are threatened by global extinction. Around 73 of these species have habitat loss, fragmentation or degradation as factors influencing their threat status, while 39 are under pressure from capture and nest poaching for the wild-caught bird trade. The Cape Parrot (Poicephalus robustus) falls in with the 28 parrot species affected by both pressures.
By Steve Boyes
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Status
Parrots have the largest number of threatened species of any bird family, whereby over 90 of the 332 recognized parrot species in the world are threatened by global extinction. Around 73 of these species have habitat loss, fragmentation or degradation as factors influencing their threat status, while 39 are under pressure from capture and nest poaching for the wild-caught bird trade. The Cape Parrot (Poicephalus robustus) falls in with the 28 parrot species affected by both pressures.
The Superb Parrot
By John Cooper
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For over 10 years, the Superb Parrot (Polytelis swainsonii) was very high on my 'must-have list' to photograph in the wild at close quarters. I'm fortunate to live right in the middle of this parrot's limited geographical range, a small area in central New South Wales, but their affinity for very high nest hollows - 50 feet plus - puts them well out of reach for my observation towers.
By John Cooper
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For over 10 years, the Superb Parrot (Polytelis swainsonii) was very high on my 'must-have list' to photograph in the wild at close quarters. I'm fortunate to live right in the middle of this parrot's limited geographical range, a small area in central New South Wales, but their affinity for very high nest hollows - 50 feet plus - puts them well out of reach for my observation towers. 
