By Sarah Otterstrom | Executive Director
The parrot season is winding down and we are thrilled to share that you helped to protect twelve critically endangered parrot chicks. It was a challenging season in part because invasive bees took over several nesting trees. Nevertheless, thanks to your contributions and the commitment of local farmers, and to our technicians who monitored the nests, we still succeeded to add to the total population of parrots.
This season, we also spent great effort to locate parrot nests in El Salvador and carefully monitor them in partnership with the local nonprofits FUNZEL y Mujeres y Naturaleza. Another partner organization, Fundacion Enrique Figueroa successfully protected one nest in the northern part of the country. We look forward to continued work with these partners.
At this time of year, the parrots are gathering their young in roost trees to teach them like the dialect of their calls and to socially share as an extended family. In much of Central America, this practice has been diminished by the very small parrot populations. But thanks to your support, we have seen the population of yellow-naped Amazon parrots increase in southwestern Nicaragua and today we can witness parrot roosts with up to 100 parrots in one tree.
Thank you again for your support and we look forward to the next nesting season when we can see a new generaiton of parrots come forth.
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