Here are some of my favorite sites for information and reference about parrots.
| BirdsCentral
is an
interesting new forum for bird lovers and breeders which one of my colleagues
suggest we link to. |
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The Amazona Society is an organization of international aviculturists with headquarters in the United States of America serving as the voice of companion Amazon parrot owners and breeders. |
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American Federation
of Aviculture THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF AVICULTURE (AFA) is a non-profit organization established in 1974 dedicated to the preservation of aviculture. Our purpose is to represent aviculture and to educate the public about keeping and breeding birds in captivity. By ensuring that everyone has the right to own, maintain and breed birds, the youth of today can be the aviculturists of tomorrow. |
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World
Parrot Trust Aims of the World Parrot Trust : The survival of parrot species in the wild, and the welfare of captive birds everywhere.To achieve these Aims we: 1. Restore and protect populations of wild parrots and their native habitats 2. Promote awareness of the threats to all parrots, captive and wild 3. Oppose the trade in wild-caught parrots 4. Educate the public on high standards for the care and breeding of parrots 5. Encourage links between conservation and aviculture |
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The Parrot Society,
UK The Parrot Society UK encourages the keeping, breeding, husbandry, research and conservation, of the Parrot Species of Birds and to promote these objectives in accordance with the Society's constitution and aims. |
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FlagHill Farm |
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©2004 from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Imaged
by Octavo. Used with permission. Edward Lear’s album of parrots contains the finest illustrations of the family ever produced: it is also a stylistic monument in the history of the depiction of birds. Lear turned his hand to many things in the course of his long life – landscape painting, nonsense verse, and the illustration of birds and reptiles. The nonsense verse is Lear’s most widely known achievement; but the limericks and their companion sketches are above all the inventions of a landscape painter who still preserved a hand attuned to the forms of reptiles and birds. Lear’s work as a natural history draftsman lasted little more than the decade of the 1830s, until his eyesight became too weak for the detail of feathers and scales. The Psittacidae is his finest achievement. Lear conveyed with telling sympathy the carriage of a bird, the grasp of the claws, the tilt of the head, its grave, curious, or quizzical expression (noteworthy beaks later reappear as remarkable noses on the limerick people, who are as distinctive as his parrots for their idiosyncratic posture and curious poses). Lear was exceptionally sensitive to the structure and function of features such as the parrot’s beak and the turtle’s jaws (the latter is evident in his lithographs of turtles and tortoises in Thomas Bell’s A Monograph of the Testudinata, also available in an Octavo Edition). Lear’s Psittacidae was drawn, lithographed, hand-colored, and published
on a shoestring by the artist himself in a tiny edition. It has always
been a rare and costly book. Now this Octavo Edition reproduces this masterpiece
of ornithological illustration in stunning detail.
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