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[17] [parrot-0-17] Why did African greys move to CITES Appendix I in 2017? Wild capture for pets plus forest loss cut Psittacus e A specimen label at a natural history museum records where and when, not which animal is more valuable. For Parrot, write , “Early psittaciforms,” and 40, and leave league tables off the card. Did Alex the parrot really use words as labels?
Why did African greys move to CITES Appendix I in 2017? 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.
The order on the card is year, line, figure. Parrot is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo.40
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 40
- Figure to keep
- 40
- Species
- Parrot
- Line in the log
- Early psittaciforms