Conservation and Research

Parrots of New Zealand

Parrot Blogger: Brent Barrett | Nov 15, 2011

New Zealand in all its unique glory and story book endemics has but seven parrot special to call its own.  This may be a surprise to some who are familiar with Australia which contains 1/6th of the worlds parrot species.  But what can I say, we are a small place with small dreams and compared to...

Parrot news resumes

Parrot Blogger: Sam Williams, PhD | Nov 09, 2011

There has been an immense interruption in the stream of news from Parrot HQ and we wish to immediately apologise and now address that matter. So long has this interruption been that we fear rumours may have begun to spread!

Do not worry Dear Reader if you had heard concerns that the parrot rescue...

It’s days like these…

Parrot Blogger: Nikki Buxton | Sep 29, 2011

Reading an article about Foster Parrot's Marc Johnson today, I had one of those wonderful moments. I felt sorry for Marc, then I sympathised, then I empathised.  And then I thought - hang on a minute: there's poor Marc struggling like crazy to place captive-bred birds in far too few homes, and look...

Shifting Sands of Time

Parrot Blogger: Brent Barrett | Sep 26, 2011

I would, in a perfect world, be writing every fortnight of exploits into the magical world of kea.  But the earth doesn't really revolve like that does it.  Instead I write from my bed hundreds of miles from wild kea about the outcomes of a very arduous year (for both the Kea and myself).  I am on...