Last month we talked about how to introduce foraging opportunities to parrots that have had little or no experience of being presented with food that has not been delivered to them in a dish. Once your parrot begins to take an interest in the simplest of foraging opportunities, you can start to slowly build more complexity into foraging toys.
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Ten years after the first, another blue wild Yellow-shouldered Amazon (Amazona barbadensis) has been spotted on the Caribbean island of Bonaire in the last few weeks.
Positive ID means birds can be returned!
Our main objective for 2013 is to make a concerted effort to encourage all parrot owners to make sure their parrots are provided with a positive means of identification, using rings and/or microchips.
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Tom Cummings from Las Vegas, Nevada has learnt hard lessons from both of his Eclectus Parrots. He was heart-broken when Lucy flew away, never to be seen again, and very much saddened when Jacob began chewing his feathers. But, Tom persisted and eventually got to the bottom of the latter problem…
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My very first sighting of a wild Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri) took my breath away. I had travelled 600km (375 miles) through the night to north-western New South Wales and arrived at the property where I was to stay, just as the sun was coming up.
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Although Margaret and Trevor Johns from Kent have many companion parrots – and have a special affinity with Amazons - they still enjoy their cockatiels and budgies as much as they have ever done and breed both species inside and outside.
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