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Protecting Argentina's parrot colony

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Jan 6, 2009 6:29 PM EST
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You might think that 180,000 squawking, screeching parrots living in 35,000 nests along 12km (seven miles) of coastline would draw quite a lot of attention.

They make a lot of noise and, with their green backs and red and yellow bellies, are a spectacular sight as they swoop and circle above the cliffs looking out over the Atlantic Ocean.

British naturalist Charles Darwin found and wrote about them on his travels in the 1830s.

But not many Argentines are aware of the burrowing parrots (Cyanoliseus patagonus) which form the world's biggest parrot colony.

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anon-800577

hah. funny stuff. Money will win every time. We live in a very shallow world where humans are at the very top of the chain and the majority of us dont give two @!$%#in @!$%#s about anything else but our own greed.

Argentina is just another greedy country much like every other country out there. there will be no compromise, the burrowing parrot is about to be the nomadic parrot. Assuming the so called farmers dont catch them and sell them on ebay first.

@!$%# capitalism..

wish i was rich so i could afford a private island; I am thinking it would be nice to buy the galapagos islands.. kill all of its current inhabitants.. cept the humans cause that would just be cruel and prolly punishable by death.. and claim myself king. muhahaha. now if only i could capture a few thousand parrots to make a lil clink for my venture.

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