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Archive for June, 2008

Gang Gang cockatoo hit by car, stuck in grill, and lives!

Cockatoo stuck after high-speed collision
Gang gang in grill

A gang-gang cockatoo has been hailed as the “luckiest bird alive” after it collided and got stuck on a car travelling at 80km/h and escaped serious injury.

The bird slammed into the front of Caroline Brown’s sedan yesterday afternoon at Berwick, in Melbourne’s south-east.

Ms Brown was amazed to find the red-crested gang-gang trapped but still alive near the air intake, its wings and head poking out.

Read full story at Ninemsn.com.au

Podcast 10 released June 17th…

Patience… It’s uploading…

An interview with Mira Tweti of ParrotPress.org about her book “Here, There, and Everywhere” a book documenting the journey of a rainbow lorikeet trapped in the wild for the pet trade.

World’s Ugliest Bird?

That’s what most of the headlines say, but that’s one cute cockatoo!

An example of Beak and Feather disease in a cockatoo

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