When Parrots ‘Migrate’
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Nearly 10,000 wild hook-billed parrots are smuggled out of Halmahera and Talaud Islands every year, destined for bird markets in the Philippines.
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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
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