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Parrot fossil 55 million years old discovered in Scandinavia
Defending the Parrots of Edgewater
Quaker parrots, which are actually monk parakeets, congregating at a bird feeder in Edgewater, where some 230 of them make their home. ...more on this story...
For more information, click hereA Sweet Tale of Two Cockies
About eight years ago a wild Australian Sulphur Crested Cockatoo flew into a car and broke its wing. The motorist took it to the Vet in Nerang, Queensland, who had to amputate the wing. We adopted her - for which we needed a National Parks and Wildlife permit - and kept her in a cage outside where she was often visited by wild Cockatoos. One of the things that impressed us was how she would push lettuce leaves through the bars of the cage, offering food to visitors.
For more information, click hereSize matters - especially for birdbrains
The bigger the organ, the better the chance of survival, scientists find
It might come as a shock, given the derogatory connotations of the term "birdbrain," but new research by a McGill University biologist and his European colleagues shows the bigger the bird brain, the better.
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