Echo Parakeet
Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the echo parakeet, found only in Mauritius.
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Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the echo parakeet found only in Mauritius, a bird which has brushed extinction by its wingtips. This once familiar bird of the island of Mauritius will only nest in large trees with suitable holes, few of which remain after widespread deforestation on the island. A close relative of the more adaptable ring necked parakeet found now across southern Britain where it's been introduced, by the 1980's the wild population of echo parakeets numbered around ten birds. Threatened with extinction in the wild, captive breeding and successful releases into the wild have stabilised the population to about three hundred birds.
Producer : Andrew Dawes
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The echo parakeet is also know as Mauritius parakeet.听 Webpage image courtesy of John Morgan / Durrell.org.
Recording of echo parakeet by Jon P Erickson / Ref: ML 167641
This programme contains a wildtrack 听kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology; recorded by Jon P Erickson on 28 Apr 2010, in "Camp" Field Station, River Black Gorges National Park, Mauritius.
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