SAVED: The Echo Parakeet
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Experts at Chester Zoo have helped to save one of the world's rarest bird species from extinction.
Following extensive breeding work carried out with the help of the Zoo, international authorities have taken the Echo Parakeet - native to the tropical island of Mauritius - off the list of species at most danger.
But delight at that remarkable success has been tempered by a new report putting another exotic bird on the list of Critically Endangered species.
China's Blue-crowned Laughingthrush, which Zoo scientists have also been working to help save, is now one of the most threatened wildlife species around the globe....
More Echo chicks fledge from released femalesby Lance Woolaver (Taken from PsittaScene May 2001)
The wild season (2000-2001) is winding down here very quickly but we’re starting up the releases for the year. We’ve had a very different season from last year. We were able to solve all of the problems we encountered last season but were faced with new challenges as well. None of the chicks this year were lost to nestfly or tropicbirds as we were able to treat all the nests with insecticide and to make tropicbird proof doors for the Echo cavities. These were simple plywood doors on hinges which we could lift up to access the chicks with small holes which Echoes could use but tropicbirds could not....
The wild season (2000-2001) is winding down here very quickly but we’re starting up the releases for the year. We’ve had a very different season from last year. We were able to solve all of the problems we encountered last season but were faced with new challenges as well. None of the chicks this year were lost to nestfly or tropicbirds as we were able to treat all the nests with insecticide and to make tropicbird proof doors for the Echo cavities. These were simple plywood doors on hinges which we could lift up to access the chicks with small holes which Echoes could use but tropicbirds could not....
