BrokenWing Chronicles
12-17-2009
Radio Jamaica
A 20-year-old man who was caught attempting to sell an exotic parrot will know in January whether he will have to pay a $100,000 fine or be imprisoned for a year.
Oshane Oates, who is charged with breaches of the Wildlife
and Protection Act faced the May Pen Resident Magistrate's Court Thursday and was offered $30,000 bail.
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http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/23056/26/Parrot smuggling in the USA
149 exotic parrots protected by U.S. and international law and confiscated from smugglers at the U.S. border with Mexico have been returned to Mexico, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced. The parrots, Amazon and Conure species taken from the wild in Mexico, were turned over to Mexican wildlife authorities.
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http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/parrot-smuggling.html#crFree Parrots
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http://www.freeparrots.net/index.php?topic=GeneralThe Defenders of Wildlife Mexico report identified U.S. demand as a major driving force behind the illegal trade for some species, such as the yellow-naped parrot, which is found only in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
"In many cases, the destination of these birds are border cities like Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez to commercialize them in the United States," Javier Sosa, director of the wildlife program at Mexico's environmental protection agency, PROFEPA, said in an email.
The story can be found here
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/0801002-parrot-trade.html
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http://www.gulfcoastexoticbirdsanctuary.com/BBC News.
You might think that 180,000 squawking, screeching parrots living in 35,000 nests along 12km (seven miles) of coastline would draw quite a lot of attention.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7721889.stmWorld Parrot refuge
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http://worldparrotrefuge.org/Overwhelmed owners jettison exotic birds
http://www.oregonlive.com/pets/index.ssf/2009/05/overwhelmed_owners_jettison_ex.htmlThe Link
The Parrots And People Paradox
(CBS) Mira Tweti and Zazu, her pet parrot, are inseparable.
Not because Tweti (pronounced Tweety, and yes, that's her real name) wants it that way, but because Zazu demands it, CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker reports.
Tweti explains, "With a parrot there's only one place for everything in your home ... and that's on the floor. He's a huge amount of work."
Parrots are beautiful. They can talk, and do tricks.
The average parrot has the intelligence of a 3- to 5-year-old child," Tweti says.
With an estimated 40 million parrots in U.S. households, they're not far behind cats and dogs in popularity.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/06/eveningnews/main4996913.shtmlSick pet warns family of carbon monoxide
"I had noticed that the bird had not been singing," said Street. "I said well I don't know, maybe the bird is unhappy about something."
The Link
http://www.nbc12.com/Global/story.asp?S=11690606BW
