News - 1999

Report about Harry Sissen

The Yorkshire parrot breeder will face trial on November 19 for illegally importing nine Macaws

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This fabulous work includes a number of parrots including two illustrations of a Blue and Yellow Macaw

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Recent additions

They include a report from Cyanopsitta as well as a report in the Miami Herald

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Entries on the blue macaws

Include in Parrots and Parrot-like Birds in Aviculture published in the 1920s by Hastings Russell,the Marquess of Tavistock

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Information on the blue macaws in aviculture

Firstly the entry on the Hyacinthine Macaw in Greene's Parrots in Captivity and then excerpts from Len Hill's book on Birdland

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A.G. Butler's Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary

From this book I discovered some interesting anecdotal information on the blue macaws

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Entries on the Hyacinthine, Lear's, Glaucous, Spix's Macaw

In Volume 20 of The Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum

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Publication of some entries

I linked some entries on the Blue Macaws website

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Article by Robert Ridgely

It was published as cover story for the very first issue of Birds International

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Adding more items to the website

An illustration of a Hyacinthine Macaw, a recent short article in Cotinga and reports on my visit to the Lear's Macaw project

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It had some interesting entries on the blue macaws, which can be found under

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