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Experts warn of growing parrot crisis in Canada [video]
- glimshe 9mo agoNo offense, but lately I've had somewhat more pressing things to worry about...
- androiddrew 9mo ago[flagged]
- mhurron 9mo agoYa, that's what it's like living in a country that hasn't been trying to destroy itself for some time now.
- steve_adams_86 9mo agoWe're able to buy electric cars from China, too. It's a whole civilization here. Of parrots and people
- tamimio 9mo agoExactly, I think articles like that are just a mockery.. there are 10s of things that can be considered a crisis than a this.
- koiueo 9mo agoI find no mockery or mean spirit in this article. FWIW I'm Ukrainian, having quite a lot to worry about.
- defrost 9mo agoNgarritj, a Yolngu speaking corella (small parrot) from Elcho Island in Northern Territory Australia, cannot change a thing happening to Ukranians, but might spark up your day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbSxc6Y1aVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbSxc6Y1aVA
- logjinhu 9mo agoCrises, suffering, and people trying to help are no less valid just because they are juxtaposed with greater crises, suffering, and people trying to help. Consider that enough users of this site voted for this article to get it on the front page. Clearly the story resonates with enough of them. No need to say basically “what you care about is worthless”, it’s easy just to go on your way if you are not interested.
- rsynnott 9mo agoLook, what's one more crisis, in 2026?
- MattGaiser 9mo agoArticles are hardly scarce. The barrier to addressing problems in society is not a shortage of people to write about them.
- matkoniecz 9mo agoThen why you spend time on HN and posting comments here?
- ornornor 9mo agoThey’re living things, just like you are. And they’re paying the price of our poor decisions without any agency in the matter.
- AngryData 9mo agoI mean to a lot of people a parrot isn't much of a step below human due to their extraordinary intelligence. There are a considerable number of people that if they were trolley problemed against a parrot I would likely save the parrot. We captured them against their will and put them into an artificial environment where they can't even survive without direct constant human help and they live for many decades and have a high emotional intelligence, the least we can do is care for them half decently.
- SoftTalker 9mo agoCue the Monty Python jokes
- dostick 9mo agoEuropean parrot or African parrot?
- snovv_crash 9mo agoMore like "THIS IS AN EX - PET - PARROT!"
- evanb 9mo ago“Pining for the fjords?”
- canada_dry 9mo agoAbsolutely gorgeous and extremely smart creatures. They generally bond with one care giver and when that person dies it really is a traumatic event for the bird. Birds that are traumatized pick out their feathers and look terrible. You can tell from the videos of their birds that they are well looked after. This organization (and those like it) are fantastic!
- zahlman 9mo ago[flagged]
- hristov 9mo agoIn the northeastern towns of la county there entire flocks of wild parrots flying around, that are escaped or freed pet parrots or descendants from such pet parrots. I guess parrots would not survive in the wild in canada, but if you have parrot you can no longer care for, maybe you could consider releasing it in the la foothills. He will have friends there. Maybe is the key word here. I am not a parrot expert.
- NewJazz 9mo agoLol please don't release random parrots. Even if they happen to be the species common in LA, if they aren't members of the wild flock they might get bullied.
- nkrisc 9mo ago> I am not a parrot expert. Then why are you giving advice on parrots?
- bregma 9mo agoThey're parroting what they read on the internet.
- bauruine 9mo agoYou never release exotic pets to the wild. Isn't that common knowledge by now? If you can no longer care for an animal bring it to the vet to get it euthanized.
- shevy-java 9mo agoDid you ask the bird whether it wants to be nuked by you - or, by proxy, the vet - here? I don't call murder "euthanization" - that is just propaganda to sell to yourself that you have the right to decide who lives and who does not.
- bauruine 9mo agoReleasing it is just murder by neglect so people don't feel bad about themself that they actually killed their pet just because "they can't care" for it anymore aka they don't want to deal with the minor inconvenience of caring for a pet anymore. Or worse they become a pest that wipes out whole local ecosystems.
- lupefiasko 9mo ago[dead]
- amatecha 9mo agoParrots and similar birds are awesome, and crazy intelligent. Seriously, watch this lil guy straight-up browsing YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_b8kWYvGkI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_b8kWYvGkI , or this one, so awesome haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZSNhJcKFf4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZSNhJcKFf4 , probably my favorite video ever of a bird
- cbluth 9mo agoIm realizing that those birds are more focused and disciplined than most children Ive observed browsing youtube
- MPSimmons 9mo agoThat's really cool! I've never seen those before. Has anyone ever set up the parrot equivalent of Chatroulette so parrots can interact with each other remotely?
- seasongs 9mo agoOh yes, finally something I can comment on! I’m a wildlife veterinarian, parrots were always my favourite animals and growing up I wanted to become a “parrot vet”. Throughout my studies and work experience I discovered so many heartbreaking things about these animals that instead I chose to dedicate myself to the wild. The parrot crisis is much bigger than what the article says. We are living a period where parrots are struggling to survive in their native range, we are getting more knowledge on how sick they get in captivity (some parrots literally self-mutilate for lack of stimulation) and we are getting bigger and bigger colonies of invasive species (mostly monk and ring neck parakeet) throughout the US and the EU. I’ve actually been working on a documentary on this topic for the past two years, if you are interested I can share it when I’m done. In the meantime I suggest you reaching out to https://www.allianceforparrots.org/ https://www.allianceforparrots.org/
- smusamashah 9mo agoWhy does it advise to buy from a sanctuary instead of a shop?
- vfclists 9mo agoBecause shops either breed then unnecessarily or they are wild parrots captured from abroad?
- seasongs 9mo agoBoth, if you live in NA you’ll probably struggle to find a poached one. But your theoretical demand puts a price tag on the few remaining wild ones and increases the presence of breeders that most of the time don’t care about the health of the individual they are raising and definitely don’t care about their local environment. Even from a sanitary perspective, oh gosh, I could go on for hours. Psittacosis, pbfd, avian influenza… Just please, if you want a pet and you want to buy it “brand new”, buy a dog or a cat
- seasongs 9mo agoIt is recommended: a) because you are rehoming an animal that probably went trough a lot and, hopefully, giving them the love they deserve. b) taking care of a parrot properly is very difficult, hence a lot of people give them to sanctuaries that are full to the brim c) decreasing the demand of these species. Both their decrease in their native range and their presence in non native ranges is, even now, caused by the demand of them as pets. Poaching in the Central and Southern America is incredibly high (in certain areas of Honduras is 100% for example) and they are poached to be sold to middlemen that will import them to the rest of the world. Now, since CITES, it’s difficult to find poached animals in NA and EU, but definitely not impossible. The main market is Asia, where they can be sold locally or then transferred to the west. At the same time, aviaries or “parrot mills” (some people call them like that) are the only reason why we have invasive parrots. If a couple of non native species get released by a distracted owners, the couple just ends up dying because they are not used to the environment. If a stock of hundreds or even thousands of animals of the same species escape an aviary they will first become a colony, then an invasive species. This phenomenon is called propagule pressure. Invasive species destabilise the natural balance, and invasive species of parrots are stealing nesting sites of owls and bats already. This is why we should at all cost, decrease the demand of them.