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Guerrero said the highest number of parrots born in the wild in western Puerto Rico reached an all-time high this year at 16, with two of those being born in the natural nest and the remainder in ...
EL YUNQUE, Puerto Rico — Biologists are trying to save the last of the endangered Puerto Rican parrots after more than half the population of the bright green birds with turquoise-tipped wing… ...
RIO ABAJO NATURE PRESERVE, Puerto Rico – One of the world's most endangered bird species has made a major comeback in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. The counted population of the Puerto ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Scientists transported 25 endangered Puerto Rican parrots to one of the U.S. territory’s largest forests Thursday in a bid to save the island’s last n… ...
CARIBBEAN NATIONAL FOREST, Puerto Rico — Raucous squawking erupts from cages filled with parrots -- a hopeful sound from a species on the brink of extinction. The last chance of survival for the ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Two endangered Puerto Rican parrots were born in the wild in a natural nest found outside a national forest in the U.S. territory for the first time in 144 years, offi… ...
She calls her African Grey Parrot her savior and says he got her through some really tough times. Maria and Richard loved traveling to Puerto Rico, but this was her first solo trip back to the island.
For 20 years, Maria Fraterrigo and her husband, Richard, would vacation with friends in Puerto Rico — her African gray parrot, Plucky, in tow. That changed in 2019, when Richard, a former New ...
Scientists race to save Puerto Rico's endangered parrots as they reveal more than HALF of the wild population was wiped out by Hurricane Maria Scientists say just two of 56 wild birds that lived ...