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Hotel Polly - the place to board your parrot

Welcome to our parrot boarding website, specifically created in order to provide you with peace of mind about what to do with your parrot when you need to go away - be it a sudden absence or a planned holiday.

Our aim is to provide parrot pets and their keepers with good value, and a happy, safe, loving home from home experience.

We will continuously strive to seek out and offer all of the pleasures and joys that life has to offer to our beloved feathered and furry pets.

Kindest regards and happy squawking.

Wayne and Anguel

 

Parrot of the Month - White Fronted Amazon

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Common name: White fronted Amazon (aka Spectacled Amazon)
Latin name: Amazona albifrons

Length: 26 - 28cm / 10 - 11 inches
Weight: 190 - 250 grams
Life Span: up to 50 years
Origin: Mexico and central America (through to Costa Rica)
Noise Level: Noisy! But quieter than their larger cousins.
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States agree on plan to protect rare parrot

By Deb O'Callaghan, Thursday, 12/04/2012

Regent ParrotThe three states along the Murray River have released a national plan for the protection of a vulnerable species of parrot. About 1,500 breeding pairs of the regent parrot are thought to remain in the wild, and people living and camping along the Murray River are being asked to report nesting sites. Biodiversity officer Victor Hurley says this parrot nests in river red gums, but feeds on mallee, and past clearing of mallee scrub has taken away its food source. "So although we've still got some good stands of the river red gum, right along the Murray, if there isn't mallee vegetation within 15 to 20 kilometres of the river, then the regent parrots just don't breed there any more."

 

Parrot rescue centre on Kerrera overwhelmed

23 March 2012 Last updated at 08:00 Help

parrot_rescueScotland's only parrot rescue centre has said it cannot cope with the daily requests to take on abandon and neglected birds.

The sanctuary, on the island of Kerrera off Oban, is currently home to 70 birds which are receiving rehabilitation and treatment for abuse as well as heart and liver disease.

Vonnie MacMillan, who runs the Island Parrot Sanctuary, says the novelty of owning a chatty parrot can quickly wear off.

Follow this link to watch the video from the BBC about this rescue centre

 

Frisky Sirocco gets owl for diversion

KIRAN CHUG
stuff.co.nz

kakapoHis frisky antics made him a global internet sensation, but Sirocco's days of humping human heads could be numbered after a stint of behavioural training.

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Understanding your parrot’s language

Parrots try and communicate with us humans through their body language, vocalizations and actions. Here are some of their basic behaviours to enable you to understand what your parrot is trying to communicate to you. Understanding the basics of our parrots will give you a far better understanding in order to have a successful communicative relationship with your bird.

Follow this link to read Part I of Understanding your parrot's language
Follow this link to read Part II of Understanding your parrot's language

Part III

Plucking
This could be a sign of a medical related problem (internal disease, hormone imbalance, parasites etc), malnutrition, mutilation syndrome, skin tumours, feather cysts and broken blood feathers, bruises, cuts, faecal matting of the feathers, boredom, sexual problems, a stressful environment, toxins (such as nicotine)

An avian vet should first be consulted here and then an avian behaviourist.

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Rare parrots call West their home

By XAVIER SMERDON
9th November 2011 09:17:11 AM

orange_bellied_parrotIT IS thought to be the world's rarest parrot and according to the Department of Sustainability and Environment, one of the best places to spot it is Werribee.

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Zoe Trust

zoeZoe Sarojini Education Trust
is our chosen charity to support. Dorothy Schwarz is Zoë's mother. She lives with her husband Walter in rural Essex where Dorothy ( a short fiction writer) teaches Creative Writing to Adults and also cares for and writes about a collection of parrots. Her biography of Zoë - Behind a Glass Wall - Anatomy of a Suicide was published by Chipmunka in 2006. For more information and to support the charity please visit www.zoetrust.org


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Enterprise Parrot Cage - Antique

Enterprise Parrot Cage - Antique

A large open top Parrot Cage on easy to move castors, with three stainless steel bowls on swing-out doors and three perches.

The large central door makes gaining access for cleaning easy along with the slide out tray. The seed catchers are removable and this steel cage..

Price: £249.99