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SCIENCEThursday 10 March 2016

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JUMLIEAWRCAITASODUNNN working on getting an up- dangered Species Act
AsAsoPcAiaetreodspParecses Writer dated count. The last study could prevent them from
SACNADPIEEGOCA(NAAP)V—ERAUL.,S. rFel-a. in 1994 estimated the pop- breeding the birds and
sea(ArcPh) e—rs NaArSeA’slanuenxcthMinagrs ulation at 3,000 to 6,500 moving them across state

stumdisessionoins stMill eaxliviceo. ’s red- birds, declining from more lines.

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than 100,000 in the 1950s Conservationists question
because of deforesta- whether any of the birds

ingspsaocweecrllatfot, livitnhge in cspitaiecse tion and raids on the nest- are native to Texas and
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“We suspect the popula- need of protection in the
tion in South Texas could United States.
rival the number found in “It seems odd to me,” said
the wild in Mexico,” said Kimball Garrett, a parrot
Karl Berg, a biologist at expert at the Natural His-
the University of Texas Rio tory Museum of Los Angeles
Grande Valley who re- County. “I don’t know that

shoviucTlhdeesbherooublilsdotetbicde ulraenndddeeesrrigtnhweads ceived a grant to study there is enough evidence

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PaMrmroaotyns tih2n,01U8.S.reuprbreasnenatrseathse In this Wednesday, March 30, 2016 photo, parrots interact at
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Associated Press Biologists estimate the pop- native range and went
ulation at close to 1,000 across the border.”
Donald Brightsmith is con- ward is being offered for in- birds in Texas and more Brooke Durham said the
centrating on the squawk- formation on the killings of than 2,500 in California, birds need more protec-
ing birds nesting in Wash- about a half-dozen parrots where they are the most tion. Durham runs a parrot
ingtonian palms lining av- found shot this year. common of more than a rescue center called So-
enues and roosting in the The research could help dozen parrot species. Cal Parrot in the town of
oak trees in front lawns in drive ways to maintain the The Texas Parks and Wildlife Jamul, east of San Diego,
South Texas. population that prefers the Department in 2011 listed and treats up to 100 birds a
it as an indigenous species year.
exmttihnoecmtaioelingte.nrmneenetdotfoEaorptheraanted “Parrots in urban settings cities and suburbs.
Pairnitrsoantseavigarehcbtuohurm.ivincghtaomdabeyrinin are of great interest to me,” “It’s more of an urban plan- because it is thought the Recently at her sprawling
citoiTerhdseefIrnoSmtigohLtmospseaaAcsneugrceeralefstsuabtiomtles the Texas A&M University ning, landscape, ecology parrots flew north across home-turned-sanctuary,
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