Now it’s a World’s parrot day in the Caribbean!
International community celebrates a unique type of feathered friend. May 31st of each year, world parrot day is celebrated. Established by the world parrot trust in 2004, to raise awareness with regard to the need to protect wild parrot populations.
Due to trapping to supply the pet trade, habitat loss and many human generated obstacles and hazards, one of three parrot species is threatened all over the globe.
The Caribbean is known to contain many unique and highly endangered parrots. Illegal pet trade is known to be the greatest threat within the region, followed by tourism projects and agriculture development resulting in habitat lost and deforestation.
Social media, region-wide shared post regarding these unique birds, having made pledges to spread awareness and support legislation, to guarantee the survival of these birds.
the drop in their numbers due to human illegal activities such as trapping, have pushed many to a vulnerable status.
A network of bird lovers dedicated to their preservation, birds Caribbean, over the years have committed for the survival of parrot species across the region. The group has undertaken to report everything from and amnesty, from registering pet birds to fan post presenting the beauty of these birds.
The amazing variety of Caribbean parrots, noted with delight, by a post from the blog, parrots of the Caribbean, detailing the uniqueness of these parrots.
Challenges have intensified with climate crisis coming into effect. as many nations of the Caribbean and its wild life experienced devastating storms during the annual transatlantic hurricane season.
As many Caribbean parrots are threatened, and many others have crossed the line to extinction, this includes several macaws and amazons, for which we have no museum specimens and will never know for sure what they were really like, even their basic color patterns are unknown.
Man has never been kind to Caribbean parrot, as we have sold them, eaten them, shot them, caged them and even taken over their island, erasing them from the face of the earth. The few that are surviving, are on the edge of existence.
As extinction nears for Dominica’s national bird, the Regional Parrot, there have been efforts in the recent years to revive and rescue this endemic species. However, still remaining on the critically endangered red list, as only about 40-60 individuals are known to be left in the Dominica, and further reducing. World parrot day is trying to avoid the unthinkable outcome.
