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Archive for February, 2007
February 15, 2007 at 11:01 pm · Filed under News
Listen to Episode #8 of the ParrotScience Podcast. This episode features an interview with Paul Jansen of the Kakapo Recovery Programme in New Zealand.
This episode is a very enhanced podcast, full of photos and web links embedded into the program. It also features some voice work exclusive to our podcast by Stephen Fry. Have a listen to this excellent episode about a very unusual parrot.
This bird is so endangered, that there are only 86 of these birds left alive!
February 15, 2007 at 3:00 pm · Filed under Parrots in the News
Up to 78,000 parrots are poached annually in Mexico for shipment to the pet trade industry in the United States. 75% of these birds die before making it to market. This type of poaching puts unreasonable pressure on an already declining population.
“Clearly this is not a sustainable market. Smuggling of certain endangered parrots, such as the yellow headed parrot and the yellow naped parrot, into the United States is increasing, and this demand is pushing already depleted parrot populations in Mexico to the brink of extinction,” says Juan Carlos Cantu Guzman, manager of the Mexico program at Defenders of Wildlife and lead author of the report. “Birds are being taken from the wild, sometimes plucked right out of the nest, and dying at alarming rates for sale in the pet trade. Next to habitat loss, parrot trapping posses the greatest threat to the birds’ survival in Mexico.”
Read the full report at CommonDreams.org
February 15, 2007 at 7:00 am · Filed under Parrots in the News
Telegraph Hill is one step closer to protection. In a move by San Francisco council, property owners will be protected if their properties are damaged by the large trees falling. This is expected to pass next month.
Read the full story at KESQ NewsChannel 3
February 14, 2007 at 6:29 pm · Filed under Parrots in the News
A FOUL-MOUTHED parrot called Mad Max survived an electric shock powerful enough to kill a human after he chewed through a power cable.
The barmy bird was zapped by 240 volts after gnawing the lead which powers his owner James White’s personal computer.
The early morning explosion blasted African Grey Max’s feathers across the room, leaving him bald.
Read the full news story at The Sunday Mail
February 14, 2007 at 6:13 pm · Filed under Parrots in the News
THE State Government has halted investigations into claims a north Queensland man found a new parrot species and its official ornithologist has stopped work on a scientific paper about the bird.
Ingham-based cinematographer and wildlife consultant John Young said the huge flap over the so-called blue-fronted fig parrot had turned his life into a nightmare.
Allegations quickly surfaced that his photographs of the bird, unveiled to a stunned bird-watching community last November, were faked.
Read the full story at news.com.au
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