Above photo of a wild Lesser Sulphur Crested or Yellow Crested Cockatoo female taken in Indonesia.

Above photo of Lesser Sulphur Crested Cockatoo at home - See Pumpkin & Vetark Products

Parrot & Cockatoo Information

Our aim in initially putting together this web site was to provide information for anyone interested in keeping parrots.

Our site covers a wide variety of species from cockatoos to cockatiels, with information ranging from cockatoo and other parrot suitability (or not) as hand reared pets, species description with photographs, natural habitat, aviary breeding and welfare.

We also include on our site, environmental issues such as cockatoo culling, imported parrots, rainforest destruction, and illegal logging.

Despite plenty of captive breeding, wild caught birds are still trapped for export trade from Africa and South America.

Did you know one of the methods used to trap African Greys is to put glue on the trees so the birds become stuck and cannot fly away?

Do you really want to buy a so called 'hand reared baby' from people who deal in these wild caught birds?

Parrot Links

Our links page contains various sites of interest both for the pet bird owner and breeder, (we do not include links from large commercial breeding facilities).

Together with links to sites providing information on:

The controversial issues of bird trapping, exporting, animal welfare, deforestation and the environment.

These 2 Lesser Suplur Crested or Yellow Crested Cockatoos have been trapped in their native country Indonesia by locals. More.....

Cockatoo culling in Australia:

Did you know one of the methods used, is to catch large numbers of cockatoos in huge nets and club them to death with large poles, another is to poison them? Only the poison (as if this was not bad enough) takes many days to kill them, during this time they suffer unimaginably, and if they are still alive after that, and found; they are finished off, again by being clubbed to death.

The trapping and killing of cockatoos (and other bird species) by 'the man on the street' is not legal (this doesn't mean to say it doesn't happen). However each year licenses are legally issued to trappers and farmers, to carry out these horrific culls.

'I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.'
Galileo 

In some years over 10,000 Parrots and Lorikeets are shot in various fruit growing districts in Australia.

If there has been a cockatoo explosion over recent decades it is man made, we are planting more crops to sustain the human population on what used to be scrubland or rainforest, the natural homes of these cockatoos. planting these crops and destroying their natural environment, you could almost say we have invited them to evolve 'en masse'. Cockatoos eat grain, corn, cereals, fruit; when when these crops get destroyed, what do we do? Destroy the cockatoos (and other native birds) who would not be there in the first instance had we not destroyed their natural habitat.' 

We hope you find our site informative and interesting. Our site is updated regularly, with new pages and new photographs. The UK is far from being perfect in its actions and views regarding environmental issues. The information provided on this site is factual and not intended to infer any love or otherwise for any other country.

We don't want anyone's approval. We only supply the facts, make up your own minds.

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