Parrots March 2020 edition available now

In this issue … Parrot News Bites – Please send us your news stories; News from Loro Parque – Winter feeding at Loro Parque; RSPCA – A new selection of birds for re-homing; Complete Psittacine – Psittacine Breeding Tips, Volume VI, by Eb Cravens; The Holistic Parrot – Japanese scientists discover GSE effectiveness against avian pathogens, by Leslie Moran; Grey-breasted Parakeets – how nest boxes saved the day, by David Waugh, Correspondent, Loro Parque Fundación; Lovely Lories at Loro Parque – As a complete enthusiast of lories and lorikeets, Rosemary Low tells us about some of her favourites and how enchanting these highly colourful psittacines are; Fifty Greys at the Kiwa Centre … a report from the World Parrot Trust; Cloacal prolapse – the causes, management and first aid treatment, by Thomas Dutton BVM&S CertAVP(ZooMed) DipECZM(avian) MRCVS; A Change in a Favoured Person, by Olivia Foxton; Adventures of Spike – In this, the second part of Sally Blanchard’s “Adventures of Spike”, she concludes with some more accounts of the times they enjoyed together; What is light and why is it so important? In this third part of John Courteney-Smith’s series on light, he considers how natural light is vital in maintaining the core balance of vitamin D and calcium; Your parrot queries answered – Our panel of experts is available to answer all your queries on companion or breeding parrots; and lots more…