Comments on: Kazakhstan Nabs Parrot Smuggler http://registan.net/index.php/2007/01/23/kazakhstan-nabs-parrot-smuggler/ All Central Asia, All The Time Fri, 25 May 2012 03:15:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dianne Kopser http://registan.net/index.php/2007/01/23/kazakhstan-nabs-parrot-smuggler/comment-page-1/#comment-343818 Dianne Kopser Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:46:06 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2007/01/23/kazakhstan-nabs-parrot-smuggler/#comment-343818 Yeah, you could fit 500 baby birds into an audi, if they were jammed in with no real space to move or breathe. I have a rescued Hahn's Macaw, siezed in a drug raid. She's totally traumatized, and used to lunge at spoons (someone fed her drugs) and bite a lot. She's recovering now, but still isn't super chummy. I hate what her previous 'owners' have done to her, and encourage ecotourism for fools who want to spend a load of cash on a pretty bird. Yeah, you could fit 500 baby birds into an audi, if they were jammed in with no real space to move or breathe. I have a rescued Hahn’s Macaw, siezed in a drug raid. She’s totally traumatized, and used to lunge at spoons (someone fed her drugs) and bite a lot. She’s recovering now, but still isn’t super chummy. I hate what her previous ‘owners’ have done to her, and encourage ecotourism for fools who want to spend a load of cash on a pretty bird.

]]> By: Dolkun http://registan.net/index.php/2007/01/23/kazakhstan-nabs-parrot-smuggler/comment-page-1/#comment-341311 Dolkun Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:21:32 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2007/01/23/kazakhstan-nabs-parrot-smuggler/#comment-341311 I wonder if one key to your sizing mystery is the confusion between parrots and parakeets. In Russian, the word, "попугай" is used for both. It might also explain the origin and the market. A lot of people in the FSU keep parakeets, and I wouldn't be surprised if some enterprising Uzbek is breeding them. I myself have had parakeets, but there were too many bones ;-) I wonder if one key to your sizing mystery is the confusion between parrots and parakeets. In Russian, the word, “попугай” is used for both.

It might also explain the origin and the market. A lot of people in the FSU keep parakeets, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some enterprising Uzbek is breeding them. I myself have had parakeets, but there were too many bones ;-)

]]> By: william http://registan.net/index.php/2007/01/23/kazakhstan-nabs-parrot-smuggler/comment-page-1/#comment-340786 william Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:32:36 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2007/01/23/kazakhstan-nabs-parrot-smuggler/#comment-340786 what about the girl from who has a website which allows someone to buy framed 'pictures' that are sold in various sizes as 'art'; the 'pictures' contain hundreds of tropical butterfly that are caught in the worlds rain forests? what about the girl from who has a website which allows someone to buy framed ‘pictures’ that are sold in various sizes as ‘art’; the ‘pictures’ contain hundreds of tropical butterfly that are caught in the worlds rain forests?

]]> By: Rachel http://registan.net/index.php/2007/01/23/kazakhstan-nabs-parrot-smuggler/comment-page-1/#comment-340666 Rachel Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:08:40 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2007/01/23/kazakhstan-nabs-parrot-smuggler/#comment-340666 Most likely they were captured in So. America or Africa, poor little guys -- many more will have died in the capture and from being crated up and drugged. Often the parents are killed or injured and left to die -- the young are easier to handle, more likely to become tame eventually, but need greater care to survive. Many parrots are quite intelligent and few wild caught birds will ever be "good" pets, or trust humans enough to bond well -- but the next generation, if lovingly hand-raised by a person, could be as sweet and gentle a companion as anyone would wish to know. Most of the people who buy these smuggled birds, unless they are bird breeders, will get tired of the noise and mess that go with parrots, and the bites that go with a terrified and miserable parrot -- few of the birds have long or happy lives ahead. It's a painfully sad way to make money, horrible for the birds as individuals and as species. In the long run it deprives all of us. Most likely they were captured in So. America or Africa, poor little guys — many more will have died in the capture and from being crated up and drugged. Often the parents are killed or injured and left to die — the young are easier to handle, more likely to become tame eventually, but need greater care to survive. Many parrots are quite intelligent and few wild caught birds will ever be “good” pets, or trust humans enough to bond well — but the next generation, if lovingly hand-raised by a person, could be as sweet and gentle a companion as anyone would wish to know. Most of the people who buy these smuggled birds, unless they are bird breeders, will get tired of the noise and mess that go with parrots, and the bites that go with a terrified and miserable parrot — few of the birds have long or happy lives ahead. It’s a painfully sad way to make money, horrible for the birds as individuals and as species. In the long run it deprives all of us.

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