July 29, 2005
Fledglinks
- Bird stolen from Roseville, California Petco store. Skyler, a four-month-old Umbrella Cockatoo (Cacatua alba), was discovered missing around 2pm Thursday. Please contact them if you have any information.
- Female Peregrine Falcon stolen from the Canadian Peregrine Foundation Raptor Centre on July 23. If you have any information, please contact them.
- Bald Eagle escapes after a storm damages the eagle aviary at the Carolina Raptor Center near Huntersville, North Carolina. If you happen to spot the eagle, please contact them.
- Ecuador launches conservation strategy for the endangered Great Green Macaw (Ara ambigua). There's fewer than 2500 in Central and South America, and only 60-90 in the Ecuadorian race.
- Wisconsin Bald Eagle soars to freedom. The thriteen-year-old eagle has taken to the sky eight weeks after being struck by lightining.
- Healthy hawk released back into the wild. The Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) was taken to the Wild Animal Infirmary for Nevada in Carson City three weeks earlier when it found sick and underweight.
- Barney, a foul-mouthed Blue-and-Gold Macaw at the Warwickshire Animal Sanctuary in Nuneaton, UK, placed in solitary after swearing at passers-by, including the mayoress, a lady vicar, and two police officers.
- Cape Coral, Florida councilwoman wants to make the city's official bird the Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia).
- Ohio’s Peregrine Falcons rear record number of chicks. Fifty seven chicks have fledged from 18 nests.
- Concord, New Hampshire prison inmates rescue escaped Parakeet. They made a make-shift cage out of fan covers to house the bird until caretakers arrived.
- New South Wales man pleads guilty to egg smuggling and gets one year prison term. He was arrested last year after arriving in Brisbane from Singapore with 52 parrot eggs hidden in a specially made vest.
- Osprey chicks make flight from their nests at Bassenthwaite, Cumbria, UK.