Wherever you are in Australia you are virtually guaranteed to hear and see parrots, but this article points out where the hot spots are for particular species, if you want almost guaranteed viewings at relatively close quarters. If you are happy to enjoy seeing parrots randomly then just stand still and look in the shrubs and trees!
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Mariam Panjwani from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire tells us how she and her family decided to buy a parrot, and then grew to love him so much, they ended up with three more!
Two years ago our family, consisting of myself, husband Hussein and daughter Anissa were feeling quite low in spirit having lost our son the previous year. So we decided to get a pet. As my husband suffers from an allergy to pet hair nothing furry would do. So we all said, “Let’s get a bird!”
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John Courtney-Smith, a parrot and reptile enthusiast, has developed a great interest in specialist UV-lighting and the science behind the systems, working and advising at Arcadia, the lighting professionals. In the first part of this series John looked at the importance of UVA-light, in part II he discusses UVB and how its use can halt feather plucking and bad behaviour.
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Cedric, a Citron-crested Cockatoo presented Paradise Park with a bit of a dilemma, but they obviously under-estimated this multi-tasking female! The story began in September 1993 when our pair of Citron-crested Cockatoos laid their fourth egg. They had destroyed their three previous eggs and the decision was reluctantly taken to remove it for hand-rearing. The egg was hatched, the chick reared, job done, except, we were left with Cedric, a very friendly hand-reared male cockatoo!
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