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Harpy Eagle, Guyana

By Charlie • February 28, 2009 • 2 comments

If it wasn’t bad enough that this blog is about to be taken over by two errant New Yorkers on their triumphant return to reality after a week soaking up the specialities of Honduras and Guatemala, I now have to endure a friend - Marc Johnson of the hugely important Foster Parrots Ltd - sending [...]

Macaws, Wild and Tame

By a Guest • January 30, 2009 • 7 comments

We’ve been talking quite a bit about parrots and Guyana lately. One woman with a passion for both and a fascination with the natural world rivaled only by her eloquence in sharing it with others is Julie Zickefoose. You probably know Julie through her artwork, her NPR commentary, or maybe even the heavenly Letters From [...]

Maipaima Eco-Lodge, Guyana

By Charlie • January 29, 2009 • 4 comments

Over the last two days of ‘Parrot Month’ (which, sadly - from my point-of-view anyway - is drawing to a close, though we still have about a week’s worth of posts to go yet!) we’ve been running a ‘theme within a theme’ looking at the parrots of Guyana and the work done by Foster Parrots [...]

Parrots, Guyana, and Foster Parrots of Rhode Island

By Charlie • January 27, 2009 • 2 comments

Between us we’ve been organising 10,000 Birds ‘Parrot Month’ (or ‘Parrot Month and a half’ as it increasingly looks like becoming!) for about ten weeks now, and one thing that struck me a while back is just how often the same names and the same conservation/research organisations - eg World Parrot Trust, Dr Stewart Metz, [...]