Where there still Brazilian owned Spix in the ACTP? My understanding was that the breeding pair was owned by the ACTP and all other Spixs there are young of that pair. The animals that moved from Tenerife to Germany were birds on breeding loan from the ACTP. It seems defacto the programme has collapsed everyone has back the birds they own. Let's hope the Brazilians will get their Spix breeding else it is just up to ACTP and Al-Wabra.
The only birds not owned by Brazil are the birds at Al Wabra...all others had transfered the property to Brazil many years ago and except the supposed birds that are in Switzerland if there is really any! This move is totally non sense yet, since we still dont have positive results with them in Brazil (Like our success with Lear´s is still very poor) and every one knows that such a move can lead to several disturbances to this birds. Maybe the "feeling of nationalization" play a big role, if the "foreigners" can, why we not?!
Eduardo are you sure that Al-Wabra are the only birds that are not owned by Brazil. In my understanding it was just the Loro Parque that hand-over their Spix to Brazil and that both Al-Wabra and the breeder behind the ACTP kept the ownership of their birds. My information said that actually some birds we transferred to Germany to join the breeding pair and its young there (actually birds on breeding loan from ACTP to the Loro Parque).
I have seen the 'photo 1' of the male Spix in Yorkshire before and commented then that it appears to be taken outside(?) of the nearby Aviary- indicating it was a poor flier too- possibly it had been kept tethered on a parrot-stand for many years. Photo 2 -of the Walsrode Pair- has been published in various parrot books too and as a postard also. Certainly one of the pair in Brazil does look in better condition than the other. I'd be interested to know which was which.
Ownership of the Spix. Are all the Spix owned by Brazil or does it depend on their origin? Have they reclaimed the Loro Park birds now because having been imported illegally originally(though not to Loro Parc) they have always remained the property of Brazil? Loro Parc must feel pretty sick about having their successfully breeding birds all taken away and seeing some of them returned to Brazil to a much more uncertain future.
I just went trough more corrects infos... ACTP sent two birds to Brazil (Paula and Felicitas) and transfered the ownership of Felicitas to ICMBIO...bringing now the total Spix owned by ICMBIO to 11 birds. 5 are currently in Brazil, 3 males and 2 females that arrived. So the 6 that are still abroad must be the birds that are at Loro Parque/ACTP, because in AlWabra is no bird that is property of ICMBIO. How many Spix Loro Parque/ACTP still keep? And about Brazil claiming ownership of ilegal exported birds, yes its quite possible since they did it with other species too, like the Lears in UK, Lion Tamarins exported before the start of the program, etc.
15 March 2013 SINGAPORE TIME Dear Pertinax and everyone Mr Tony Pittman informed us the following news : -- Thursday, 7th March 2013 You can watch the arrival of the two Spix's Macaws at São Paulo's Guaruhlos airport on 26th February via the following link on U-Tube - youtube.com/watch?v=h86TRIDAo6c&sns=em. The two macaws were carried off the aircraft in transport boxes before being transferred to transparent containers to be taken into quarantine. They were accompanied by Jürgen Dienst, the representative of ACTP, Germany. Tuesday, 5th March 2013 In February 2012 I put up a link to a short film on U-Tube featuring the last Spix's Macaw in the wild. There is a slightly longer film with Portuguese sound-track on U-Tube athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLL6D-EBI4Q . Made by biologist Francisco Pontual it is titled "O sobrevivente solitário" (the solitary or lonely survivor) it features some interesting footage of the last Spix's Macaw in the wild taken in 1990 including some of him with the female Illiger's Macaw at a nest hole and also grooming her. Carlos Yamashita and Martin Kelsey also appear briefly. Monday, 4th March 2013 I learned over the weekend that two female Spix's Macaws - Felicitas and Paula - have been transferred to Brazil from ACTP in Germany at the end of last week.
15 March 2013 SINGAPORE TIME Dear Pertinax and everyone The following videos will provides us some Spix's infos. over the years Spix's Video -- PART 1 O Sobrevivente Solitário - de Francisco Pontual http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=dsQJBcnYzAI O Sobrevivente Solitário de Francisco Pontual http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=YLL6D-EBI4Q Ararinha na Natureza http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=HYYqan5y0GM Ararinha na Natureza http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=KiAn3E5xRJc A última ararinha azul. http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=gH3XHOaG0Kg SPIX -- IN THE WILD -- 1990 Última Ararinha Azul livre - Globo Ecologia, 1990 http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=6RNKcXy0Rgc SPIX -- PRESLEY AT LYMINGTON Presley, ararinha-azul que ajudou inspirar animação Rio http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=amr1LJBeKuE ARKive -- Spix's macaw -- video 1 - http://www. arkive.org/spixs-macaw/cyanopsitta-spixii/ WORLD PARROT TRUST -- PRESLEY -- 2 videos http://www. parrots.org/index.php/presskit/spix_macaw_movie/ [to access the video links above, cut the relevant address and paste it into your address bar, then remove the space I have created after the www -- Chlidonias]
15 March 2013 SINGAPORE TIME Dear Pertinax and everyone The following videos will provides us some Spix's infos. over the years Spix's Video -- PART 2 A ] PBS Nature - The Loneliest Animals 720p (documentary http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=clujFe47_Ak&feature=related Species includes : - Spix's macaw -- Sumatran rhinos -- Galapagos Giant Tortoise [ Lonesome George -- sub-spp ] Lemurs -- Yang-Tze turtle -- Black-footed ferrets -- Iberian lynx etc . . . SPIX'S ANIMATION O CASAMENTO DA ARARINHA-AZUL: Protótipo http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=1_73fMmWWks SPIX - BBC VIDEO - PART 1 TO 4 http://www .bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Spix%27s_Macaw SPIX - INTERNET BIRD COLLECTION -- [ IBC ] PART 1 TO 6 WITH ADDITIONAL PHOTOS http://ibc. lynxeds.com/species/spixs-macaw-cyanopsitta-spixii SPIX - PRESLEY AT LYMINGTONS http://g1.globo. com/natureza/noticia/2011/04/conheca-presley-ararinha-azul-que-ajudou-inspirar-diretor-de-rio.html SPIX - AWWP - TIMES VIDEO DR SVEN HAMMER AND RYAN WATSON http://awwp. alwabra.com/index.php/content/view/1541/29/ SPIX - Can a Desert Sheik Save This Brazilian Macaw? http://www .time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,76009954001_1977950,00.html SPIX - AWWP - Spix Macaw on brink of extinction http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=JsKH49L6dh0&feature=related [to access the video links above, cut the relevant address and paste it into your address bar, then remove the space I have created after the www -- Chlidonias]
15 March 2013 SINGAPORE TIME Dear Pertinax and everyone The following videos will provides us some Spix's infos. over the years Spix's Video -- PART 3 SPIX - LPF - SPIX'S MACAW BREEDING CENTRE DR DAVID WAUGH http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=HaY-2MtoaEc Spix's macaw -- LPF http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=e1AjA3aGybE Spix's macaw -- AWWP http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=jMgWCZSoDok&feature=related A última ararinha-azul -- C-Luis Marigo http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=cdLw5iDa5z4&feature=related Guacamayo Spix - Después Del Nacimiento http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=3gx7fx6lTe4&feature=related Guacamayo Spix - Alimentación De La Cría http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=iDhP85ZgZys Guacamayo Spix - Antes Del Nacimiento http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=ScU8u9JTQgo Cria Guacamayo Spix - Loro Parque Fundación http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=sJDDkN1O6-4&NR=1 Nacimiento De Yara http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=W_DuqbExy-Y Pichon canario al rescate de un guacamayo extinto en Brasil http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=DxAqYETvaGg&feature=related Spix's Macaw School - before video http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=lp5MU1ApGNA&feature=related Cyanopsitta Spixii Large http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=m-eOPoinw3A&feature=related SAUDADE DA ARARINHA AZUL - JSANTOSFM - 0013 http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=dzc1BRJwxwc&feature=related guacamayos de spix en un aviario http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=fVY1jj0U [to access the video links above, cut the relevant address and paste it into your address bar, then remove the space I have created after the www -- Chlidonias]
15 March 2013 SINGAPORE TIME Dear Pertinax and everyone The following videos will provides us some Spix's infos. over the years Spix's Video -- PART 4 PARROT FASHION -- The Year 1984 with footages on the Spix's --- narrated by Dr David Attenborough http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=eYXfwsZfEII BIRDS INTERNATIONAL INC. The Year 2000 and 2001 [ with exclusive video footages of Spix's at Birds Int-l INC before the " Full " transfer [ Totals at 25 ] to AWWP in 2003-4. The earlier transfer of 4 birds dated a few years back . . . ] TOTALS -- 29 bii 新鳥莊 youtube BII寵物鳥鸚鵡繁殖場 PART 1 - YouTube http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=Bh_XUJw1Sm8 BII寵物鳥鸚鵡繁殖場 PART 2 - YouTube http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=acgP8osEL-0 BII寵物鳥鸚鵡繁殖場 PART 3 - YouTube http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=oKP8dfJ-RwY BII寵物鳥鸚鵡繁殖場 PART 4 - YouTube http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=jkFaV6MOQoE B I I The Year 2010 Birds International AVP B I I ARA DI SPIX -- [ MISSIONE NATURA - L'ARA DI SPIX ] Exclusive interviews with Mr Antonio M DeDio at BIRDS INTERNATIONAL INC. -- MANILA -- THE PHILIPPINES http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=husIrovuhx4 [to access the video links above, cut the relevant address and paste it into your address bar, then remove the space I have created after the www -- Chlidonias]
15 March 2013 SINGAPORE TIME Dear Pertinax and everyone The following videos will provides us some Spix's infos. over the years Spix's Video -- PART 5 Yara, one week after birth http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=2HR3QGyerCk David and Matthias talking about Yara http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=t6vK19x2BN0 Please Do More To Save and Protect Spix Macaws http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=9VPY_bRCvwU Saving Spix Macaw 2 http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=FbfbEmeSOh4 Spixs Macaw http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=Y57P8lDjJsQ Saving Spix Macaw Preview http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=nByFb50lxxU Spix's Macaws http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=-NnMOa4Y-Vs Qatar al wabra wildlife park, the home of spixs macaw [Reporter HD] http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=asr5MhOadHI [to access the video links above, cut the relevant address and paste it into your address bar, then remove the space I have created after the www -- Chlidonias]
15 March 2013 SINGAPORE TIME Dear Pertinax and everyone Some videos of Glaucous macaw over the years Glaucous Macaw -- PART 1 http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=JP9BshjemB4&gl=SG&hl=en-GB Glaucous Macaw -- PART 2 http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=KOxaGTdp0Nw The " False " Glaucous macaw -- The Year 1991 DAILY NEWS http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=X0O_zJ2BJDg [to access the video links above, cut the relevant address and paste it into your address bar, then remove the space I have created after the www -- Chlidonias]
17 APRIL 2013 -- SINGAPORE TIME Dear Pertinax and everyone For additional zoochat forum spix's discussion -- pls also go to : -- spix's macaw » Spain -- Page 1 - 5 http://www.zoochat.com/339/spixs-macaw-148077/ SPIX MACAW UPDATE. » Europe - General -- Page 1 - 3 http://www.zoochat.com/9/spix-macaw-update-5458/
25 April 2013 -- Singapore Time Dear All For the latest news and infos. on Spix's macaw -- pls refer to : -- Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots ACTP - Verein zur Erhaltung bedrohter Papageien e.V. Blue Macaws Blue Macaws AL WABRA WILDLIFE PRESERVATION Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation AL WABRA WILDLIFE PRESERVATION -- Spix's facebook https://www.facebook.com/awwp.spix AL WABRA WILDLIFE PRESERVATION -- Wildlife facebook https://www.facebook.com/AlWabraWildlifePreservation
05 May 2013 Dear All For latest infos. on Spix's conservation in the wild at present time, pls go to : -- Ararinha na natureza Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ararinhananatureza
05 May 2013 Dear all -- for additional news and infos on Spix's -- pls refer to : -- ACTP Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/ACTP-Verein-zur-Erhaltung-bedrohter-Papageien-eV/345292195557990
13 May 2013 From David -- Singapore Dear All Additional videos on Spix's conservation -- pls refer to the followings : -- Vive_le_perroquet_bleu_SPIX.avi (ChezNanard) http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=NX5goxh6Kso Mr Tony Pittman also informs us the latest news : -- Thursday, 9th May 2013 I have just received a statement from Loro Parque Fundación on the recent repatriation of the Spix's Macaws held there to Brazil. You can read it here. http://www.bluemacaws.org/LP statementon repatriation of Spix's Macaws May 2013.htm Tuesday, 7th May 2013 Some old film of a news broadcast in 1987 on Brazilian TV can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u8_BkJ8riS0 It relates to the repatriation of two Spix's Macaws from Paraguay to Brazil. Juan Villalba-Macias was Director of TRAFFIC South America at the time and had led a raid with police support to a house in Asunción belonging to Ernst Koopmann, a notorious wildlife dealer of German origin. They were the last known offspring - approximately two months old at the time of seizure - of the Spix's Macaws at Melância Creek near Petrolina in Bahia. It was intended that they would be sent to Europe for re-sale. Apparently a dealer in Petrolina had transferred the two young macaws to a middleman in the south of Brazil for US$ 10,000 and they had been passed on to Koopmann for US$ 20,000. He would have received $US 40,000 from the dealer in Europe.
great new for the Spix macaw : Qatar efforts give hope to rare parrot species Viewd by: 387 1 2 3 4 5 Qatar efforts give hope to rare parrot species Daniel Neumann performing artificial insemination in a Spix’s macaw at AWWP. 9:58 PM 22 May 2013 By Bonnie James/Deputy News Editor Pioneering efforts by Qatar’s Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation to conserve the extinct-in-the-wild Spix’s macaw have achieved a key milestone with the world’s first artificial insemination in the parrot species native to Brazil, under a partnership with a German firm. Founded by Sheikh Saoud bin Mohamed bin Ali al-Thani, AWWP, which has been a champion in Spix’s macaw conservation for over a decade, holds over 77% (64 out of 83) of the world population of the bird and is actively involved in grassroots conservation in its home country. Given that a narrow genetic pool is one of the biggest problems for the worldwide breeding programme, as it causes suboptimal fertility in the population, researchers from AWWP together with Parrot Reproduction Consulting from Germany decided to help the species through artificial insemination. As soon as a female laid her first egg, the team took sperm from a male and immediately deposited it by micro-capillary tube into the oviduct of the female Spix hoping to fertilise the next egg to be laid before the egg shell would be formed. “This process was repeated after the second and third eggs were laid as Spix are known to often lay four eggs in a clutch,” Dr Tim Bouts, director of AWWP told Gulf Times. After seven days the eggs were candled to see if they were fertile. Two - out of the seven artificially inseminated - proved to be fertile and developed well in the incubator. The eggs were checked daily for development and as the chicks were growing their heart rates monitored in the egg until they hatched after 26 days. The first chick to hatch was called ‘Neumann,’ named after veterinarian Daniel Neumann, from Parrot Reproduction Consulting, the executor of the first successful artificial insemination in Spix. “I have performed many artificial inseminations in parrots over the years but none have been as special as the ones in the Spix,” he said while recalling that as a boy, following the sad story of the disappearance of the Spix’s macaw in the wild, he dreamt about becoming involved in its conservation. This success story is hopefully the beginning of the recovery of the species in the wild as successful breeding in captivity with a wide genetic pool will be the most important tool for its survival. The blue macaw co-ordinator in AWWP, Dr Cromwell Purchase, said: “Since we know that artificial insemination is possible in this species, we have a lot more possibilities for breeding as we can use different males and females to make up the best possible genetic combinations.” The next step will be to perform artificial insemination in Spix’s macaws already in Brazil and to set up an AWWP breeding facility inside Brazil. Dr Bouts pointed out that currently AWWP manages 10 out of 11 Spix’s macaws owned by the Brazilian government in NEST, a private breeding facility in Sao Paulo State. “We need to kick-start breeding and possibly artificial insemination in their native country as soon as possible. We are also looking to set up our own breeding facility and send some birds from Qatar to Brazil.” AWWP, well-recognised and respected globally for its focus on breeding and protecting threatened species, is non-commercial and not open to the public. A member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, AWWP has so far this year bred four Spix’s macaw chicks, including the two conceived by artificial insemination, of three different mothers. AWWP, which owns 2,380 hectares of prime Spix’s habitat near the town of Curaçá in the Caatinga in Brazil, is involved in habitat restoration to prepare the area for reintroduction of the Spix’s macaw in the wild. AWWP spends over QR1mn each year for Spix’s macaw conservation in Qatar and Brazil. Source : Gulf Times
