Taxidermy Available BUY • SELL • TRADE · BIRD SUPPLIES and EQUIPMENT· SEED. FEED Halfmoons • Cockatiels • Lovebirds Parakeets. White headed nuns Green singers • Cordon bleus Golden breasted Waxbills and many other types of finches and hookbills 18247 East Valley Blvd. LOROPARQUE (at Yorbita Rd.) La Puente, CA 91744 helps fund research for endangered Amazon parrots

by Rosemary Low Curator, Lora Parque, Tenerife, Canary Islands

Checks totalling 524,260 were posium, also to the generosity of presented by Wolfgang Kiessling (left), Germany's major bird club, AZ, who director and owner of Loro Parque, to contributed 5,550, and Wolfgang Dr. Christoph Imboden ofthe Interna­ Kiessling, the project can now continue. tional Council for Bird Preserva­ Indeed, in March 1986, Dr. Peter tion (Cambridge, England). Also Evans, who leads the research team, pictured is Rosemary Low, who returned to . The aim of his attended the First International research, which will continue until Convention held in Loro Parque, 1988, if sufficient funding can be found, COCKATIEL BREEDING 3 UNIT CAGE Tenerife, Canary Islands, October 1986. is to advise the Government of Domin­ WITH NEST BOXES. Loro Parque has the most comprehen­ ica on measures to protect the parrots. • SPACE SAVING AND HYGIENIC si ve collection of parrots in the world. This may be the only conservation • ATTRACTIVE AND PRACTICAL Rosemary Low made an appeal on project which, to date, has been funded cost $250 plus shipping behalf of the imperial , mainly by aviculturists and others • Made With ~ tough nylon molded corners from Dominica in the West Indies. interested in parrots. 15/16 Sq. 040 wall aluminum tUbing. 'h x 2 16 Ga. G.SW. galvanized before welded wile. Galvanized ICBP had launched the Dominican The imperial (Amazona imperialis), sheet metal trays. 28 Ga. Parrot Project to try to save the the largest and most imposing member • Size of each cage IS 36"w x 18"d x 18"h (inSide) • Nest box size 10·1I2"w x 9"d x lO"h imperial parrot, in imminent danger of of the Amazon parrots, now numbers • Cage shipped unassembled extinction due to destruction of habitat. only 50 to 60 individuals. It needs all • The above price Includes U.P.S shiPPing to any. where In the Continental U.S.A The project will also help protect the financial help that we can give. Please send order to: P.O. Box 3025 Dominica's other parrot, the red­ Please send your donation to: the N Kalamazoo, MI 49003 necked Amazon (Amazona arausiaca). 1-800-456-6780 Dominican Parrot Project, ICBP, [C Limited However, last year the project ran Ollt of 219c Huntingdon Road, Cambridge James'==~ President • [VISA~ funds, but due to the magnificent CB3 ODL, England. Thank you for response of the participants at the sym- yourhelp.-f 18 December/January 1988 Know more about your birds....

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