Parrot-palooza!

Aug 06, 2016 06:51

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Twelve-year-old kakapo Sinbad, Codfish Island, New Zealand
Photo by Shane McInnes
Kakapo snap wins rare birds photo competition

From the linked article: Sinbad is the son of veteran kakapo Richard Henry, who was found as an adult in Fiordland in 1975 when his species was believed to be extinct.

There are only 125 known kakapo left. Each has been given a name (list at Wikipedia) by the Kakapo Recovery Programme.

2.


Golden conure, Gramado Zoo, Brazil
Photo by Rodrigo Menezes

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Senegal parrot Kili; video is forty-seven seconds

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Photos by Rodnick Biljon


Photo by Steve Boyes
Cape parrots, Cape Parrot Sanctuary, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa
Africa’s Most Endangered Parrot Revealed Like Never Before

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Umbrella cockatoo; video is one minute, eleven seconds

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Macaw, Scovill Zoo, Decatur, Illinois
Photo by Bryan Campbell

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Several species of macaws at a clay lick, Tambopata Research Center, Peru
Photo by Linden Gledhill

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Yellow-sided greencheeked conure Pearl
Photo by Tom Needham

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Sun conure

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Flock of African grey parrots eating clay
Photos by Reto Kuster
Ghana’s Grey Parrot population may soon cease to exist

11.


Kea, New Zealand
Photo by Mongo at Fotozones

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Hyacinth macaw, Brevard Zoo, Melbourne, Florida, USA
Photo by Dave Irving

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Northern hawk-headed parrot pair, San Diego Zoo, San Diego, California, USA
Photo by Craig Chaddock

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Budgerigars (parakeets) drinking and bathing, Alice Springs, Australia; the one in the second photo is on sentry duty
Photos by Richard Waring
Delightfully colourful Budgerigars -- photos

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Cockatiel Taiyo
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