Blue Rumped Parrot

[jonclark]

Yesterday we found a female blue-rumped parrot dazed and confused in the street - it seems to have flown into a street lamp and it isn't able to fly at the moment (or its very scared, or both) . 

 

I am a bit stumped as to know what to do with it. It is a CITIES II listed species and its natural habitat clearly isn't the outskirts  Bangkok, preferring lowland forests of S. Thailand and Malaysia, so I am not really happy about letting it go as its not gonna last long. I'd imagine its escaped from a collection somewhere, there are no rings or anything on it. 

 

I'd like to give it to a bird sanctuary or similar - anyone got any ideas or info on local sanctuaries that might be interested - more than happy to get on the phone to them. Don't want to sell or give it away as it is a CITIES listed species.

 

Cheers

[AjarnNorth]

You might try contact Bird Conservation Society of Thailand: http://www.bcst.or.th/?lang=en

 

Address: 221, Moo 2, Soi Ngamwongwan 27, Bangkhen, Muang, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand

Phone: +66 2 588 2277

Hours: 

Open today · 9AM–6PM

[AjarnNorth]

I also just read that Kuiburi National Park in  Prachuap Khiri Khan Province has a population of this species, but it it's been a caged bird for some time I don't know what the likelihood of its making a transition to life in the wild would be...

 

https://www.thainationalparks.com/kui-buri-national-park

Edited October 13, 2016 by AjarnNorth