No visitor to Australia can fail to notice and be charmed by the colorful, noisy and endearing parrots found in this country. Australia boasts 56 species of parrots and we’ll take a peek at some of the magnificent parrots that call Australia home.

Allison is a Mom to five children and “uber-guardian” to a menagerie of household pets. She has an acute awareness of the important role that children play in protecting captive animals and that they are indeed the next generation of animal and earth guardians.

Happy Mother’s Day to non-feathered and feathered mom’s everywhere! Please join us on a celebration of Mom’s—where we see that a mother’s love, care and devotion does not discriminate across species lines.

Birds of Paradise has long operated an emergency rescue program for distressed, abandoned and abused parrots. In fact, the sanctuary was founded on just such an event in August of 2011. This story presents a “birds eye” view of the most recent BOPS parrot rescue event, dubbed the “North Port 15”.