I think you will see them in one of the mixed aviaries in the walled garden near the penguins or on the other side of the wall in the woodland parrot aviaries. PP posted 2 short videos of keas on their Facebook page last month.
Thanks, I will look forward to that.
I think that would be most unlikely. Why would Paradise Park tell a lie about this?
I really would like to know what really has gone down. I can hardly phantom that an exporter would illegally try to import into the UK (even more so after Brexit). Just to ascertain that it is illegal imports rather than bureacracy not being able to deal with CITES and importing from the European continent.
I could be mistaken, but I believe these are the individuals from Harewood Bird Garden in Leeds, which closed earlier this year, where they were held off-show. Wonderful to know their new location, and another reason to hopefully visit Paradise Park at some point soon.
I don't think you are mistaken...though I hadn't realised Harewood had bred them to reach this large total, I thought there were only two or three there. I also thought they were held offshow longterm there due to some health issue, though they look fine in these new photos. Paradise Park is certainly the best home for them in the UK. My only reservation is that these new aviaries look a bit small and basic, in comparison to some of their older Macaw flights which are taller and roomier. They may also need to try and effect some exchanges due to the close -relatedness of most of these birds perhaps.
There is some interesting information in an article by Rosemary Low, written in October last year, available at https://www.bluemacaws.org/contentpdfs/Rosemarys article October 2023.pdf. She visited the macaws at Harewood and she provides details of their breeding results, as well as describing the situation of the species around the world. Reading between the lines, it seems that there was fear that the birds might be stolen, and I wonder if the rumour that they carried the virus for psittacine beak and feather disease was intended to deter theft: the birds looked wonderful when I saw them this week. The new range of aviaries at PP seem to be fine, although I agree that they could be a little longer and a little taller. I certainly agree they need to arrange some exchanges to bring some unrelated birds and to widen the gene pool in other collections. indeed it would be nice if a couple of the young birds could be repatriated to Brazil.
Interesting article by Rosemary Low. Reading it I get a total of 10 Lears ar Harewood in 2020, when she visited there- the three adults, five naturally raised chicks( 2 & 3) + later 2 more handraised. Presumably if PP have 12 now, then two more were reared after 2020. But most of them are closely related I think.There is some interesting information in an article by Rosemary Low, written in October last year, available at https://www.bluemacaws.org/contentpdfs/Rosemarys article October 2023.pdf. She visited the macaws at Harewood and she provides details of their breeding results, as well as describing the situation of the species around the world. Reading between the lines, it seems that there was fear that the birds might be stolen, and I wonder if the rumour that they carried the virus for psittacine beak and feather disease was intended to deter theft: the birds looked wonderful when I saw them this week. The new range of aviaries at PP seem to be fine, although I agree that they could be a little longer and a little taller. I certainly agree they need to arrange some exchanges to bring some unrelated birds and to widen the gene pool in other collections. indeed it would be nice if a couple of the young birds could be repatriated to Brazil.
