Bird Backpacks Could Help This Parrot Bounce Back

鸟背包可以帮助这只鹦鹉恢复健康

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2024-12-30

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The thick-billed parrot is the only surviving parrot species native to the United States. These brightly colored birds once roamed across the American Southwest and as far south as Venezuela — but today, the only wild population remaining lives high in the forests of Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains. For years, conservation organizations like OVIS (Organización Vida Silvestre) and the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance have been working on a multi-faceted conservation project to save these birds. Host Regina G. Barber and producer Rachel Carlson dive into the details of that project — and how tiny "bird backpacks" are helping to make it all happen. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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Hey, shortwavers.
Regina Barber here with producer Rachel Carlson.
Hey, Rachel.
Hey, Gina.
Okay, welcome again to the show.
I love reporting with you.
I love being here.
And this time it's really exciting because we've been reporting a story together on thick billed parrots.
And you gotta see these parrots in like, real life.
Yeah.
I got to go to the San Diego Zoo Safari park in Escondido, California.
I drove down from Los Angeles, pulled onto a dirt road and met some parrots at the bird Conservation Center.
It looks like they're cuddling.
They're kind of looking at me.
And I met their care specialist, too.
It sounds like they're laughing.
Maybe they're laughing at me.
Rachel, they're laughing with you.
I don't know.

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