THOUSANDS of parrots and white cockatoos “migrate” annually from Halmahera, North Maluku, and Talaud, North Sulawesi, to the Philippines. They will never return. It is in fact not a seasonal migration of birds that can be seen through binoculars from the areas of Puncak, Bogor, West Java, when winter arrives.

It is a gloomy picture of the conservation of these gorgeous hook-billed birds in their habitat in Indonesia. They are constantly ero