PHOTOREPORT from the biggest European birdmarket in Zwolle

Events

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On 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. Tradition of this market is really long and especially before the year 2004 the experience was extraordinary because you could see there all the new species which many of us haven’t seen before. Zwolle birdmarket is worth a visit not only to parrotbreeders but owners of all the birds.

Today the event was quite special because the structure of halls was changed. Because of the problem with immigrants from Near East one of the halls became accomodation for their families. However, during the whole day the birdmarket was not disturbed by them.

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(Foto: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Lilac-crowned Amazons (Foto: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Marajo Amazon (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Yellow-crowned Amazons (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Red-lored Amazon (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Tucuman Amazon, (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Yellow-faced Parrot (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Vinaceous Amazon (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Festive Amazon (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Austral Conures (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

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Birdmarkets in Zwolle take place there twice a year – in February and in September. It’s much better to visit the sale in Autumn because that’s when breeding season in Europe is finished and everybody sells offspring. At this time much of diversity of offered birds was represented by finches, bee-eaters and other insect eating birds. As for parrots, offer wasn’t so rich as usually. However, we have to mention rare species like the Austral Conure (Enicognathus ferrugineus) or the Kea Parrot (Nestor notabilis). Very interesting was also the Marajo Amazon (Amazona o. xantholaema) offered by one Italian breeder for 1000 euro each bird.

There were also many other Amazona species at the market – Tucuman Amazon (Amazona tucumana), Vinaceous Amazon (Amazona vinacea), Double yellow-head Amazon (Amazona oratrix), Red-lored Amazon (Amazona autumnalis), Blue-fronted Amazon (Amazona aestiva), Festive Amazon (Amazona festiva), Hispaniolan Amazon (Amazona ventralis), Cuban Amazon (Amazona leucocephala) and others.

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Green-winged Macaw (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Blue and Gold Macaw (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Severe Macaw (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Blue-headed Macaw (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Yellow-collared Macaw (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Mealy Amazon (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Severe Macaw (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

A group of African Grey Parrots (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Goffin’s Cockatoo (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Little Corella (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Lutino Galah, this boy costed 2500 euro (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

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We can’t forget about some species of macaws however the offer was very limited. At the market we saw the Green-winged Macaw (Ara chloroptera), Blue and Gold Macaw (Ara ararauna), Blue-headed Macaw (Primolius couloni), Severe Macaw (Ara severa), Yellow-collared Macaw (Primolius auricollis), Blue-winged Macaw (Primolius maracana) and Red-shouldered Macaw (Diopsittaca nobilis).

As for cockatoos, there were the Umbrella cockatoo (Cacatua alba), the Sulphur crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita), Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri), Little Corella (Cacatua sanguinea), Goffin’s Cockatoo (Cacatua goffini), Solomon‘s Cockatoo (Cacatua ducorpsii) and Galah (Eolophus roseicapillus).

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Bee-eaters (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

(Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

(Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Senegal Parrots (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Jardine’s Parrot (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Grey-headed Parrot (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

(Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Northern Rosella (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Black-winged Lovebirds (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Red Lory (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Papuan King Parrot (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Swift Parrots (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

The price of blue kakariki dropped a lot. Now it’s about 250-300 euro each. (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

(Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Pileated Parrot (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Blach-headed Caique (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Horned Parakeet (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

(Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Indian Ringneck grey white tail white head (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Hooded Parakeet (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Kea Parrot (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

Yellow-streaked Lory (Photo: Jan Potůček, Ararauna.cz)

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You can check the availability of other parrot species in previous photos and the pricelist which we published on Monday.

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Title photo: (c) Jan Potucek, Ararauna.cz

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