Parrot in 2022: Kākāpō boom year
[310] [desk-parrot-5] In 2022, the field log for Parrot is headed “Kākāpō boom year.” The figure kept beside that heading is 250. It is a count or a date from the work, not a rank of the species’ worth. A zoo birthday card does not replace the log. Listings and downlists are dated events in the timeline, not eternal essences.
Wild capture for pets plus forest loss cut Psittacus erithacus. Appendix I ended most commercial international trade in wild greys. Every Strigops is named and managed on predator-free New Zealand islands. Supplementary feeding and nest cameras make it closer to intensive care than to a hands-off reserve.
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.
Keep 2022, “Kākāpō boom year,” and 250 together or the note on Parrot stops being that year’s record.2022
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 2022
- Figure to keep
- 250
- Species
- Parrot
- Line in the log
- Kākāpō boom year
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