Parrot in 2007: Alex dies
[251] [desk-parrot-2] Are London’s ring-necked parakeets a conservation win? They are an introduced boom, not a restored native. Cav A specimen label at a natural history museum records where and when, not which animal is more valuable. For Parrot, write 2007, “Alex dies,” and 400, and leave league tables off the card. Four other atlas types, six terms, three threads and three local notes -- a map
Are London’s ring-necked parakeets a conservation win? They are an introduced boom, not a restored native. Cavity competition with starlings and bats is the local argument. Why do so many macaws remain threatened? Cavity trees come down with forest. The pet trade added a second cut. Spix’s macaw went extinct in the wild before a 2019–20s reintroduction attempt in Bahia.
They learn contact calls in flocks. Human-word mimicry is the lab and living-room version of a general vocal-learning kit shared with songbirds and hummingbirds. What did the World Parrot Trust change? Since 1989 it funded trade research, in-situ projects and the journal PsittaScene — a counterweight to avicultural magazines.
Kea pry, lories brush nectar, and hyacinth macaws crack palm nuts. The bill is a Swiss-army kinetic tool, not a single nutcracker. Parrot is one of 24 types in this animals atlas. The pages treat it as a full system -- history, anatomy, operating principles, culture, icons, future pressure and market shape -- not a ranking of a best species.
The order on the card is year, line, figure. Parrot is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo.2007
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 2007
- Figure to keep
- 400
- Species
- Parrot
- Line in the log
- Alex dies
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