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The Parrot Society UK

Breeding Parrots

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Providing For Your Parrot

Providing For Your Parrot or Parrot Collection© (In The Event of Your Incapacity, Hospitalization or even Death)by R.J. McMillan For many people, particularly the elderly, a parrot or a collection of parrots is an important and comforting part of life, and the...

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How to Sex Captive Birds

Extracts from 1907 publication, How to Sex Cage Birds© - an interesting historical article!by R.J.McMillan, UK. "Introduction Amongst technical ornithologists it has been a custom, much to be deplored, to describe all birds in which the sexes do not exibit marked...

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How and in what should we keep our birds

by Cliff Wright. (Oct 1998) In the forty odd years that I have kept birds I have had to build four lots of aviaries owing to collapse of the first lot (the next ones allowed me to keep more birds than originally planned) and a whole new lot when I moved house. The...

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Captive Breeding of the Cape Parrot

William Horsfield©Amazona Parrot Breeding Facility, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. History of captive breeding. Until fairly recently, all the Cape Parrots bred in captivity in South Africa have been progeny of wild-caught birds. The founder stock of wild-caught...

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Legal Identification Of Stolen Parrots

Legal Identification Of Stolen Parrots©by R.J.McMillan, Wales, UK Parrot thefts have been on the increase over the past couple of years, with little or nothing being done by their owners to identify them if they are stolen, these parrots whether one or quite a number...

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Parrot Care Sheets

This page is available in full only to paid-up members of the Parrot Society, via the Members Only page Information included for Cockatoos, Lories, Macaws and Parakeets Parrots make colourful, interesting and very enjoyable pets and are relatively easy to...

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Egg To Parrot

The Egg Soon after Incubation the germinal disc can be seen Embryo can be seen with capillaries extending over the yolk, transporting nutrients Early development of the eye's and limbs The embryo has detached itsself from the amnion and moves like a frog, the heart...

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