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In January 10,000 Birds held a ‘Parrot Month’ theme (http://10000birds.com/tag/parrot-month), and I’m ashamed to admit one of the posts I didn’t get around to formatting – not because it wasn’t any good but because it was so long – was written by Nick Sly, erudite and learned author of the Biological Ramblings blog, who has [...]

Nick Sly, a blogger who writes at the thoroughly-recommended Biological Ramblings is an ornithologist, recently graduated from Cornell and cast out into the real world where he keeps a wry eye on all things biological! In October 2008, in his first field job out of school, he helped a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his dissertation [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday we posted about the tremendous variety of parrots found in Guyana, northern South America, and mentioned the work of Marc Johnson and Karen Windsor of Foster Parrots Ltd, who not only run a large wildlife sanctuary in Rhode Island, but are passionate about Guyana and promoting the country’s extraordinary bio-diversity to eco-tourists. Today we’re [...]

When we started organising Parrot Month we wondered (a little anxiously) how it would be recieved by our fellow bloggers: month-long, organised themes might not be seen as blogworthy. Turns out we needn’t have worried. We’ve been truly inspired by the generosity of some top-class bird bloggers who’ve handed reams of text and some world-class [...]

Nick Sly is an ornithologist, recently graduated from Cornell and cast into the real world. He is currently located in Venezuela, in his first field job out of school, helping a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his dissertation on vocal communication in Green-rumped Parrotlets. This population of parrotlets is located on one of the many [...]

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill by Mark Bittner is subtitled A Love Story… With Wings. Verily, there is truth in advertising. This fresh autobiographical study in amateur ornithology may be one of the first birding romance novels! The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is described as “the inspiring story of how one man found [...]

My hometown has a bit of a reputation as a wild place, but not in the “supportive of exotic wildlife” sense, if you know what I mean. Yet an abundance of avifauna thrive here, including one species of the family Psittacidae. For those of you unfamiliar with ornithological taxonomy, that is a parrot! Yes, parrots [...]