Subject: [Tweeters] Endangered Parrots Produce Third Chick for Houston Zoo
Date: Jul 27 11:50:56 2008
From: Devorah Bennu - birdologist at yahoo.com


Hello tweeties,

I wrote a little story about the rapidly maturing St Vincent Amazon parrot, Amazona guildingii, that was hatched a couple months ago at the Houston Zoo. This is only the third chick of this endangered neotropical species to hatch in the Houston Zoo, and the Houston Zoo is the only zoo in the United States that has successfully bred this species in captivity. I have images and a video of this bird that you will want to see;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/07/endangered_parrots_produce_thi.php

cheers,

GrrlScientist
Devorah
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/
Roosting high up a tree somewhere in Central Park, NYC