Parrot in 2010s: Island ICU and city flocks
[534] [read-parrot-4-134] In 2010s, the field log for Parrot is headed “Island ICU and city flocks.” The figure kept beside that heading is 400. 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. A flightless parrot became a named, transmitter-tagged national project.
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 2010s, “Island ICU and city flocks,” and 400 together or the note on Parrot stops being that year’s record.2010s
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 2010s
- Figure to keep
- 400
- Species
- Parrot
- Line in the log
- Island ICU and city flocks
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