Unclassified
October 2nd, 2015 | by
LubosTomiskaThere are four subspecies of Sulphur-crested Cockatoo according to Arndt’s taxonomy and five mentioned by Forshaw. Two of them are found in Australia, Forshaw describes also one more Australian subspecies Cacatua galerita...
Conservation projects
September 29th, 2015 | by
LubosTomiskaVIDEO IN – Kakapo is the only flightless parrot living on four offshore islands (Codfish, Chalky, Anchor and Maud) near to South Island, New Zealand. Because of loss of ability to fly it became threatened and now this...
Mutations
September 25th, 2015 | by
LubosTomiskaDuring this summer holiday ParrotsDailyNews team visited over 30 breeders in Australia. Seeing wild black cockatoos or australian lorikeet species was one of the most wonderful experience in my life. However, we saw also many...
Events
September 23rd, 2015 | by
LubosTomiskaOn the last Saturday (19th September) ParrotsDailyNews team visited the biggest birdmarket in Europe, maybe in the whole world. Every year breeders from all European countries meet at one place – Zwolle in Netherlands....
Conservation projects
September 22nd, 2015 | by
LubosTomiskaAfter more than 12 months Senegal police arrested a very important international bird trafficker, Aziz Sall, who was responsible for smuggling of several hundreds of thousands of African Grey Parrots. The association EAGLE...
Events
September 21st, 2015 | by
LubosTomiskaParrotsDailyNews visited the biggest European birdmarket Zwolle in Netherlands. We really enjoyed the visit and decided to set up a pricelist of offered birds. There are not all offered birds, of course but just a few most common...
Legislation
September 18th, 2015 | by
LubosTomiskaAs you surely remember, in this spring we brought you an article with statistics of CITES I species kept in the Czech Republic. In that article we asked breeders all over the world to get their national data from local...
Research
September 16th, 2015 | by
LubosTomiskaWhat shall we do to be successful in parrots breeding? Firstly, we need to have a couple, of course. A spacious aviary, nestbox and high quality diet is also necessary. But that’s not all, we forgot about one thing, maybe the...
ACTP NEWS
September 11th, 2015 | by
LubosTomiskaAs ParrotsDailyNews.com was out of service during summer holiday we couldn’t inform you about a very important event of European aviculture. Association for the conservation of threatened parrots works with several species...
Mutations
September 9th, 2015 | by
LubosTomiskaWe know about observation of parrot mutations in many species in the wild. There are blue Rainbow lorikeets found in Australia, blue Blue and Gold Macaws in South America and many other examples. However, natural coloration in...