parrot Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Parrot poaching in Peru and Ecuador

By Pedro Romero-Vidal|2023-06-06T14:25:56+00:008 Jun 2023|bird-human interactions, early-career researcher, ECR, endangered, fieldwork, morphology, Neotropics, parrot, populations, Psittaciformes, road ecology, survey|

Preferred species poached far beyond their abundances in the wild

The Hidden Past of the Macleay Kākāpō

By Lindsey Gray|2023-01-17T09:51:56+00:0016 Jan 2023|avian biology, forest birds, Genetics, island birds, museum collections, natural history, parrot, population divergence, Psittaciformes|

Can 21st century science decipher the murky origins of a collection of 19th century endangered parrots?

Ecological interactions at risk

By Pedro Romero-Vidal|2022-12-17T15:06:54+00:005 Jan 2023|anthropogenic food sources, behaviour, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, foraging, forest birds, habitat degradation, habitat selection, migrant, Neotropics, parrot, Psittaciformes, road ecology, seed dispersal, threatened species, urbanization|

Exotic mammals threaten Araucaria Forests by displacing Austral Parakeets

Tailoring nestbox programmes for target species

By Karleah Berris|2022-06-21T16:57:09+00:0027 Jun 2022|behaviour, birds of conservation concern, Breeding, cavity nesting, ecology, fieldwork, habitat degradation, IBIS, islands birds, monitoring, nest-site limitation, nesting, parrot, Psittaciformes, reproduction|

Glossy Black Cockatoo nestbox use influenced by behaviour and competition

Hyacinth Macaw conservation in the Brazilian Pantanal

By Maxwell R. Oliveira|2021-08-03T12:05:44+00:0019 Jul 2021|Bird Protection, cavity nesting, distribution, endangered, grassland, parrot, population structure, protected areas, threatened species, wetlands|

Habitat loss and lack of protected areas threaten the iconic Hyacinth Macaw

Mate shortage in exotic parrots

By Dailos Hernández-Brito|2021-03-12T13:55:53+00:0018 Mar 2021|hybridization, parrot, population structure|

Can successful hybridization between non-congeneric species assist biological invasions?

The call of the Kea

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-22T16:40:07+00:0024 Sep 2020|behaviour, bioacoustics, communication, nest predation, parrot|

Female Kea use distinct calls to communicate with their offspring.

Protecting dead parrots to conserve the living

By Nathan Whitmore|2020-10-07T15:01:13+00:0016 Dec 2019|Conservation, parrot|

Harvest for ceremonial headdresses threatens Pesquet’s Parrot in Papua New Guinea

Bird trade in Japan

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-15T16:58:28+00:0012 Dec 2019|Bird Protection, birds of prey, endangered, News, parrot, trade|

Which species are most popular and where do they come from?

From IOCongress2018

By Igor Berkunsky|2021-02-12T14:34:51+00:007 Nov 2018|Conferences, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, IOCongress2018, parrot, Psittaciformes, reintroduction|

"The best congress I have attended"