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Parrots' lives improved with cage swaps, educationCTV.caKaren Windsor, executive director of Foster Parrots, which runs a sanctuary in Hope Valley, RI, hears just about every excuse for giving up a parrot: divorce, marriage, babies, kids leaving home, kids moving back, "the bird hates me," age, disease.and more » |
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Birds flock to playgroupScarborough TodayFollowing a visit from staff of Pets At Home, children at Hackness Under 5s have been keen to spot pheasants, collared doves, blue tits, blackbirds, finches and robins in the grounds. Playgroup assistant Dawn Wilde said the natural surroundings were ... |
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Birds flock in as the new year arrivesNorthumberland GazetteThe Braid at Amble was a collecting place for birds in January with 30 snow buntings present on January 12, six bull finches, 10 green finches and 12 gold finches were there on January 31. Three new wetland areas have been created on former opencast ... |
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Help needed to save owls from crueltyThis is SomersetFounder Darren Jenkins currently houses the birds of prey in purpose-built aviaries in his garden but he wants to set up a sanctuary to open to the public. Since making a plea last year a few land offers were made but his hopes were dashed after none ... |
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Angry birds? These lost species have every right to be…The GuardianIt joins the dodo, the great auk, the huia and species of woodpeckers, boobies, pigeons, parakeets, cormorants, owls, swifts, finches, crows, petrels and birds of almost every taxon in a remarkable new book that documents for the first time the world's ...and more » |
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Mystery bird: indigo macaw, Anodorhynchus leariThe Guardian (blog)This parrot was named in honour of the British poet, author and artist, Edward Lear, because he published his painting of an individual of this species in his book, Illustrations of the Family of the Psittacidae, or Parrots. Many authorities of the day ... |
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Deadly Bird Parasite Evolves at Exceptionally Fast RateThePoultrySite.comUS - A new study of a devastating bird disease that spread from poultry to house finches in the mid-1990s reveals that the bacteria responsible for the disease evolves at an exceptionally fast rate. What's more, the fast-evolving microbe has lost a key ... |
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