Parrot Parental Care

Vandir and I shot this movie a while ago, of a young parrot equipped with a radio transmitter being fed by one of its parents. Can you see the antenna?!

This was a male young parrot, which received the transmitter in November 2007, three days before its first flight.

The objective of this monitoring is to follow the young on its first months, to verify the behavior and health status. We monitor the birds every month, by direct observation, with a receptor and a portable directional antenna. The coordinates of these birds will are used to determine its home range by the minimum convex polygon method.

This is the first time that we had registered this kind of images! We are very happy to share them with you! We intend to acquire more radio transmitters with the support of the donors, to get to know even better about this species.

I hope you like it!

And keep an eye in our blog, as more and more videos are coming soon! ;0)

Glaucia

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4 Comments

  1. Rebecca, Australia
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 1:17 am | Permalink

    I think I can just see the antenna, but not really!

    Excellent video!

  2. Posted November 2, 2009 at 9:41 am | Permalink

    Hi Rebecca,

    thank you for your comment! We are shooting some great new videos, with higher quality, and they will be posted soon. Please check it back soon!

    Glaucia

  3. Posted November 19, 2009 at 3:08 am | Permalink

    This is a cool video, Just watched it.

  4. Posted November 19, 2009 at 8:55 am | Permalink

    Hi Vijy! Thank you for your comment! If you liked this one, so wait until we post the other ones we have. The quality is way better, I am sure you will love it!
    They are coming soon!
    Have a great day!

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