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82Parrot Care: Parrots and People
Parrots are among the most familiar of bird species to the general public, and are generally held in esteem and affection even by people uninterested in natural history or conservation. Ironically, it is our overwhelmingly positive responses to...
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75Parrot Care: Parrot Reproduction and Mortality
Reproductive studies normally entail locating adequate samples sizes of potential nesting pairs and determining both the fraction that fail to breed and the success rates of the ones that do. In some species,...
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80Parrot Care: How to Care for Parrots in the Wild
The overriding goal of parrot conservation should be the maintenance of viable wild populations of all species within their native ranges and natural ecosystems. Captive populations are not an end-point of...
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75Parrot Care: What Causes Parrot Population Decline?
If monitoring efforts with a species show that it is under continuous decline, it is important to establish causes of the decline through more detailed demographic investigations. This is usually accomplished...
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73Parrot Care: Monitoring Parrot Populations
Although various methods for monitoring parrot populations are available, the utility of these methods is not uniform among species because of species differences in behaviour and ecology. Among the methods...
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