Conservation projects

Citizen and satellite data establish precise distribution maps for threatened parrots
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Citizen and satellite data establish precise distribution maps for threatened parrots

January 26th, 2022 | by David Waugh
The results of applying the new technique show that on average, Areas of Habitat (AsOH) are 12% larger than published distributions. Thus, eBird...
Tall trees and nest-boxes: a winning combination for Yellow-headed Parrots
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Tall trees and nest-boxes: a winning combination for Yellow-headed Parrots

December 13th, 2021 | by David Waugh
This is an endangered species found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, which has undergone a dramatic population...
Genetic analysis of wild Scarlet Macaws from saliva they leave on fruits
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Genetic analysis of wild Scarlet Macaws from saliva they leave on fruits

May 12th, 2021 | by David Waugh
One notable example of non-invasive collection of genetic samples from the shed feathers of wild individuals has been with a Scarlet...
Marquesan dancers venerate the Ultramarine Lorikeet
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Marquesan dancers venerate the Ultramarine Lorikeet

April 25th, 2021 | by David Waugh
Of the original six islands where the Ultramarine Lorikeet occurred, Black rats have been present on three since about...
Red-tailed Amazons, bees and drones
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Red-tailed Amazons, bees and drones

March 8th, 2021 | by David Waugh
What kind of mattress suits you best for a good night’s sleep? Is it the spring kind, or foam, or maybe air or water, or even one that has hexagonal cells called a honeycomb base. If it is the latter, you are sharing this...
Yellow-crested Cockatoos protected by dragons
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Yellow-crested Cockatoos protected by dragons

January 8th, 2021 | by David Waugh
Of Indonesia’s staggering total of 17,508 islands, the name of a relatively small one, Komodo, has been conferred ona formidable species of monitor lizard which lives there. This of course is the Komodo dragon (Varanus...
Health screening of macaws in wildlife rehabilitation centres in Costa Rica
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Health screening of macaws in wildlife rehabilitation centres in Costa Rica

January 4th, 2021 | by David Waugh
In many places of the world where centres take in and provide professional care to sick, injured and confiscated wild animals, most will include rehabilitation as part of their mission, which implies the return of the animals to...
Improving wild parrot population estimates: the Vinaceous-breasted Parrot example
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Improving wild parrot population estimates: the Vinaceous-breasted Parrot example

November 28th, 2020 | by David Waugh
The flight calls of Vinaceous-breasted Parrots (Amazona vinacea) lingered in the chill air of the austral winter dawn in southern Brazil. However, no parrots were seen, because the dense early morning mist had not dispersed by...
How threatened in the wild is the Grey-breasted Parakeet?
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How threatened in the wild is the Grey-breasted Parakeet?

October 28th, 2020 | by David Waugh
In 1644 a Dutch artist painted an image which turned out to be the first record of the Grey-breasted Parakeet (Pyrrhura griseipectus), a severely threatened species endemic to north-eastern Brazil. The parakeet was formally...
Poachers positively select parrot species based on their attractiveness
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Poachers positively select parrot species based on their attractiveness

October 19th, 2020 | by David Waugh
News has arrived about a phenomenon that many of us suspected was true, but in practice has remained unexamined objectively until now, not least due to the difficulties of estimating species abundances in the wild. Poachers do...

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