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Loro Parque, Tenerife News Highlights • News Highlights • News Highlights • News Highlights • News Highlights • News Highlights Loro Parque, future strategy on the hold- ing of parrots in all zoos of the Tenerife European region. July 2008 Loro Parque Fundación is Th e little Lear`s Macaw grateful time and again for all donations given to protect (Anodorhynchus leari) which is being hand-reared is still devel- endangered parrots. Mrs Ruth oping very well, and is ready Kühbänder, the public illustra- to leave the nest. Th e breed- tor of the national zoological ing pair had one more clutch, collection in Munich, made and now the next chick has a donation of 650 euros. She hatched out. Because the par- took as an example the type ents appear to frequently break specimen collected by Bap- their eggs, they were given an tist Ritter of Spix on the Rio infertile egg laid by a Blue-and- San Francisco in Brazil, which gave the fi rst description of yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna). the Spix`s Macaw ( A Blue-throated Macaw (Ara Cyanopsitta ). Herr Heinz Weschen- glaucogularis) hatchling with spixii the same weight of 21g was felder, producer of the profes- put into the Lear’s Macaw sional incubators, presented empty eggshell and placed the to the Loro Parque Fundación nest of the Lear`s Macaws. At a high precision machine for the same time the infertile breeding rare parrots and made egg of the Ara ararauna was by his fi rm. Many thanks to all removed from the nest. Aft er the donors! 4 days, with the weight at 55g Adult Austral Conure (Enicognathus ferrugineus) August 2008 the foster chick was changed for the Lear`s Macaw chick. see these as real parents, too. distance itself from them. Th e Our four young Lear´s Th is shows once again that the Aft er a break of many years aviary, with its size of 10m x Macaws (Anodoryhnchus Lear`s Macaws are best for the we were able to stimulate our 10m and height of 3.5m off ers leari) are developing very well rearing. Austral Parakeets (Enicog- enough space for this. Th ree and have been ringed already. Furthermore another pair nathus ferrugineus) to breed eggs were laid in the nest, two While the fi rst, who was hand- of the Lear`s Macaw started again. Aft er several unsuc- of them fertile. To avoid any raised, is already fl edged and is breeding, and two eggs have cessful changes of aviaries for risk, one of the fertile eggs was trying its fi rst flying exercises, already hatched in the nest pairing, in spring we put the put into the incubator. Now the other three chicks are now of the Green-winged Macaw birds into a communal aviary, the chick has hatched and it is 4 weeks old. Two are being raised in the nest, one by its (Ara chloroptera) adoptive par- with one additional male Aus- still growing well in the baby ents. One chick is still being tral Parakeet. From the outset, station. From the other fertile own parents and the other by reared by its adoptive parents, three birds formed their own egg the hatched chick is being foster parents (a pair of Green- and the other is being reared group and distanced them- rearing by its parents in the winged Macaws—Ara chlo- by hand. selves constantly from the communal aviary. roptera), and another chick is However, we have not yet other birds there, from the On three days in June, the in the Baby Station of Loro fi nished breeding for this year. pair of Eclectus Parrots (Eclec- EAZA Parrot Meeting took Parque being raised by hand. If we have luck we will get two tus roratus vosmaeri) and from place, hosted by Loro Parque Aft er having received the two more chicks, because the par- Red-vented Cockatoos (Caca- Fundación. Eight interna- Lear’s Macaw pairs in Octo- ents are already occupied with tua haematuropygia). Suddenly tional parrot specialists from ber 2006 from the Sao Paulo their next two eggs. Th is time one pair of the Austral Para- the association for all scientifi c- Zoo in Brazil by the Brazil- we leave the eggs in the nest keets showed interest in nest- based European zoos came ian conservation authority with their parents, and hope to ing, and the third bird had to together to paln a common (Chico Mendes Institute of 42 Volume XXXV • Number 3 • 2009 WB_35-3_v16.indd 42 1/22/09 10:18:27 AM FF 01/22/09 News Highlights • News Highlights • News Highlights • News Highlights • News Highlights • News Highlights by themselves, whilst the other two young birds were success- fully hand-raised in the Baby- Station of Loro Parque. Th is nearly black parrot from Mad- agascar is not very common in captivity, which is wrong! Th eir interesting reproduc- tion, but also their melodious, almost singing sounds pro- vide suffi ciently interesting featureto keep these parrots, and through captive breed- ing to stabilise the breeding population. A few years ago we got our Pileated Parrots (Pionospitta pileata) to breed successfully for the fi rst time in a bigger group aviary. Today fi ve adult pairs are kept in separated pairs in fi ve side by side enclo- International group of parrot specialists of the EAZA Meeting in the Loro Parque Fundación, Tenerife sures. Certainly the aviaries are separated by visual barriers, Biodiversity Conservation) Following that the young pairs. so that the birds can hear, but that oversees breeding com- Pesquet´s Parrot (Psittrichas A very good breeding year can’t see each other and there- munity, the population has fulgidus) hatched in the spring has taken took place for our fore no mutual disturbance grown, through the last year’s is now independent, another Purple-bellied Parrots (Tri- can take place. Four of the fi ve and this year’s breeding suc- chick has hatched some days claria malachitacea), with four pairs have started to breed this cesses, in less than two years ago, and will be also raised by pairs successful in breeding year, from which one pair pro- to eleven animals in the Loro hand. Presently Loro Parque is again. duced infertile eggs. Th e other Parque Fundación. Th is is an possibly the only zoo Europe- While our Lesser Vasa Par- three pairs were more success- excellent contribution to the wide that is constantly rear- rots (Coracopsis nigra) still ful and each of them reared conservation of endangered ing these parrots which have haven’t started to breed, our between three and fi ve chicks parrot species and motivates become very rare. We would breeding group of Greater by themselves. the staff of the Loro Parque like to try to build up over Vasa Parrots (Coracopsis vasa) Aft er last year’s breed- Fundación to redouble its the long term a self-sustaining is fi rmly established. Four ing pause our Red-spectacled eff orts. breeding group with several pairs raised their youngsters Amazons (Amazona pretrei) Certified Parrot Behavior Consultant 281-852-2600 JOIN THE INTERNET DISCUSSION GROUP TODAY t New Pet Parrot information EVERYONE WELCOME t Re-homing advice and help t Help with specific behaviors www.IAABC.org All aspects of parrot care are discussed in a positive manner *If you love Parrots you will love this group* t Telephone, email or in-home consults Proud supporter of American Federation of Aviculture [email protected] www.abcbirds.com WWW.YAHOOGROUPS.COM JOIN celebrateparrots Helping parrots and their people for more than twenty years. AFA Watchbird 43 WB_35-3_v16.indd 43 1/22/09 10:18:29 AM FF 01/22/09 News Highlights • News Highlights • News Highlights • News Highlights • News Highlights • News Highlights Five day old Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo chick. were this year successful again. While on the ground. Aft er putting them in the in the incubator for further incubation. two youngsters are being hand-raised up incubator it turned out that both eggs Now the eggs were cold, however in one in the Baby Station of Loro Parque, three were infertile. Th en in 2007 the eggs were of the eggs the embryo was still alive, and youngsters are growing-up with their own laid for the fi rst time in a nest-box, with there was movement, as we found out sev- parents. Th ey are attended very well and an open upper part, and they started to eral hours later. Th e 23rd of August a Yel- have already been ringed. incubate. Both clutches of two eggs were low-eared Cockatoo chick hatched for the again infertile. fi rst time in the history of Loro Parque, September 2008 Th e 2008 breeding year started in the with a hatching weight of 19.8 g. Th e last month’s highlight was with- same way. As before, a clutch of two was Th e chick surprised us with its inten- out any doubt the hatch of a Yellow- produced, which at fi rst were thought to sive yellow down, which is very dense, just tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus be infertile. Th e clutch of two eggs were like chicks of domestic chickens. It is a funereus). Th is species has been held for left initially there for incubation. A nest- very lively and active chick, whose shape many years in the Loro Parque Fundación. check showed the surprising result, that of face shape is similar to a young Gang In 2002 we managed to exchange one of one of the two eggs was for the fi rst time Gang Cockatoo.
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