Growing up I wanted a parrot so badly, but my mother had this irrational fear of birds, so it was a non-starter (not to mention the life-span requiring loving care for many decades). I don’t know how, if it ever were an option, how I would have obtained a companion bird so very long ago, but I do know that today, exotic birds are traded illegally in astonishing numbers. Couple that with the loss of habitat and disease, and you’ve got a recipe for avian disaster.
Today, January 5, is National Bird Day, set aside to celebrate the winged ones and call attention to conservation measures that we need to implement sooner rather than later. Born Free USA and the Avian Welfare Coalition have lots of suggestions and inspiring games and interactive web features to get folks talking about species protection and the quality of life for captive birds.
In addition to finding new ways to become a feathered-friend activist, here are just a few volunteer gigs that are bird-focused, to stimulate your responsible travel planning and dreaming:
International Bird Rescue to help care for injured and oiled wildlife.
Free Flight Birds exotic bird sanctuary.
Bird Studies Canada to be a citizen scientist.
Earthwatch expeditions to the Galapagos to help research Darwin’s Finches, or to South Africa to help in understanding the African Penguins.
Change by Doing 
Posted by Gjergj Prenkocaj on May 24, 2020 at 4:52 PM
Hi there i’m interested in adopting a baby parrot, i perfer a african gray if you have one but if not i’ll adopt a diferent kind of parrot