Breeding Family Humane Parrots 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2014
Parrots captivate me more than any other bird family. With their strong flight and capability to disperse, parrots have managed to colonize almost every major island group from Tahiti to Mauritius to Dominica. There seems to be a parrot for almost any ecological situation. I am a self-proclaimed psittacophile.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
When I read the description of the Mulga Parrot on a pet website, I first thought it was an advertisement for Thai mail-order brides: “The exotic appearance of the Mulga Parrot might be what attracts you first, but it’s their personality that will win you over” ( source ). Female below.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2022
Looking for parrots at sites with rainforest? Watch the buildings, keep an eye on tall trees, this species has become adapted to breeding on ledges and living in cities. You’ll probably hear them first, like so many others of their family, they aren’t shy about making some noise. Birding in a local park?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2022
In Sydney, refuse is an important constituent of the diet during the breeding season (HBW), and a study conducted in 1970 describes a number of strategies by which these gulls steal food from Crested Terns. The Red-rumped Parrot is a ground-feeding parrot – one of its other names is grass parrot.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
I saw it in a park in Delhi, and indeed the HBW remarks that it “has adapted well to human habitation, and is common and widespread in the parks and gardens of cities such as Delhi” (I once had a visitor from India here in Shanghai, and he asked me if/why there are no birds in Shanghai. That Smith Family is so depressing”.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2016
They used Great T**s from non-urban and urban areas, and mixed them up through breeding, to rule out any possible family history of telomere length. The benefits are many, including the availability of anthropogenic food sources, breeding boxes and warmer temperatures. Salmón, J. Nilsson, A. Nord, and S.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
The USA’s only truly indigenous parrot was wiped out by a combination of factors, although direct persecution through hunting seems to have been the major contributor. Today, if you want to see parrots in the USA you need look no further than Miami. But its not just parrots that are doing well in their adopted city.
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