Archive for the 'Birds' Category

At Prague Zoo, Antonin Vaidl has a very important job.

He's a bird curator and he gets to spoon feed a brand new baby parrot!

The 3-day-old baby is an Edward's Fig Parrot, or Scarlet-cheeked Fig Parrot.

A zoo rep said that parrot babies are very rarely seen and births in captivity are even rarer, so this pic is extra amazeballs!

The little guy will eventually grow to about 7-inches-long.

He'll be mostly green with a red breast and cheeks, yellow ear converts and a yellowish crown.

He's gonna be so pretty!

But for now we'll just aww at his baby cuteness!

[Image via Prague Zoo.]

In Shanghai, China a sixth person has died from a new bird flu strain and eight others are sick!

The same day of the death, a Shanghai market detected bird flu in a pigeon and began slaughtering all of the birds.

That's just awful!

Over 20,000 chickens, ducks, geese and pigeons were all killed!

The director of China's CDC said:

Halle Berry better watch out!

Her fiance Olivier Martinez was basically attacked by some admirers!

Luckily for her - the admirers were a bunch of colorful parrots! Or as the natives call them - macaws!!!

Olivier was either having the time of his life as parrots sat upon his body, or was frightened beyond belief!

We honestly aren't sure!!!

Personally our idea of a dream vacation does not involve what Olivier can be seen doing (above).

We'd rather just hang out with these ladies.

But to each his own - we guess.

At least this terrifying experience was absolutely a wonderful kodak moment!

Check out some pictures of Olivier with some human beings (below) !!!

[Image via AKM-GSI.]

We previously mentioned that literally thousands of dead pigs were being scooped out of China's Huangpu river in Shanghai.

Well now at Anhui University’s old campus in Hefei, capital of Anhui province, five black swans have been found dead in their pond.

That's so sad!

When the news broke, a journalist went to investigate how the swans died.

This is just absolutely HORRIBLE!!

When we take live animals, and keep them in cramped, stressful situations to be used as food, we have a responsibility.

That responsibly is to make sure their lives are ended as humanely as possibly.

At a slaughterhouse near Sydney, Australia there are workers who enjoy to torture turkeys before they're stunned and killed.

The birds are shackled by their feet to a conveyor that takes them to be stunned before they're killed.

The whole point of stunning them is so their death is as humane as possible.

But the workers kick, punch and slam around the birds before they're stunned!!

It's so incredibly horrible! Thank goodness there were security cameras that secretly caught everything!

The footage has been taken to the cops for investigation so hopefully these monsters will pay!

Check out the video (above) to learn all about the horrible abuse, but BEWARE it is violently GRAPHIC!

PETA has done it again!!

Oakland's DA office has charged three individuals with organizing pigeon races and violating the state's anti-gambling policies.

This has occurred after PETA spent fifteen months witnessing illegal pigeon races and people gambling on bids up to $250,000!

Here's what a representative of PETA said:

Wesa is a cute, 2-week-old California Condor chick!!

She just hatched back on February 24th and is the first chick of the season at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

The little baby chick has maintained a healthy weight and eats up to 15 mice per day!!

Gross! But healthy for growing condors!

What's kinda funny/weird is they're "puppet rearing" the chick.

That means the zoo keepers put their hand in a condor puppet and interact with the chick so it can eventually be released into the wild.

The zoo's senior condor keeper said:

"The puppet is like a fancy glove. It covers our hands so the chick does not get any beneficial experiences from people. We do not want it imprinting on people or getting used to us when it goes out into the wild. We want it to be a nice, wild animal, not relying on people for food."

Wesa is part of a California Condor breeding program which brought condors back from literally only 22 in the '80s, all the way to the 400 that are in the wild today!

Way to go, SD Zoo! Congrats on the new chick!

[Image via Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo Safari Park.]