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| Subject: | Paradise Parrots |
| From: | (John Leonard) |
| Date: | Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:56:44 +1100 (EST) |
A few years ago I was speaking to an aviculturalist who told me that
altought there are no pure PPs in captivity there are some very motley
Golden-shouldereds and Hooded Parrots around in captivity, and that this has
recently been recognised as a relic of captive PPs having interbred with GSs
and Hoodeds earlier this century.
It is just conceiveable that if a breeder gathered a number of these bird
together and bred them, selecting for the PP plumage traits, that a
population of 'reassembled' PPs might be bred, and then might conceivably be
reintroduced into the wild.
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John Leonard (Dr),
PO Box 243,
Woden, ACT 2606
'It's a beautiful planet,
If you care to scan it...'
Cole Porter
http://www.spirit.net.au/~jleonard
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