February 2016

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Breeding of the Blue and Gold Macaw

February 15th, 2016 | by Kashmir Csaky

Ara ararauna, the Blue and gold macaw, is one of the most popular of all parrots which is no surprise. This large macaw is strikingly beautiful...

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Spanish AVIORNIS holds an avicultural convention in March

February 12th, 2016 | by LubosTomiska

Every aviculturist diary has to be really busy at the first quarter of this year. The event which begins the season of international avicultural convention...

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Vanessa Kanaan: We have already released more than 70 Vinaceous Amazons back into the wild

February 11th, 2016 | by LubosTomiska

A few weeks ago, we informed you about activities of Instituto Espaco Silvestre with their releasing project. This organization is focused on...

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Extended study reveals why are parrots one of the most threatened avian orders

February 10th, 2016 | by LubosTomiska

An international research team published a paper which contains alarming data on parrot conservation. It’s been well known that parrots represent...

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Breeding of the Goldie’s Lorikeet. PART II

February 9th, 2016 | by LubosTomiska

Feeding of lories is such never ending story. Aviculturists have discussed this issue for decades and there are hundreds of homemade...

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Avian Society of India is going to host one of the greatest avicultural events of this year

February 5th, 2016 | by LubosTomiska

Aviculture is a hobby popular all over the world. Just ten years ago we would say that the largest collections with rarest parrot species are found in Europe,...

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Q & A: “What is the best technique for parrot hand-rearing?”

February 4th, 2016 | by Tony Silva

Hand-rearing has long been practiced by native communities, who would take parrots nestlings from nests to rear. The birds would be kept as...

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Biology and breeding of the Red-tailed Cockatoo. PART II

February 3rd, 2016 | by Julie and Barry Blanch

Throughout the central interior of Northern Territory, western Queensland and New South Wales inland areas there are three main large fragmented populations...