Feeding baby parrots.....

We helped to feed some baby parrots yesterday and going back today to help again.

Just last week, here in Mazatlan, there were 270 Orange-fronted Conure parrots stolen by two men that tried to cross the border into the US with them. They were going to attempt to sell them illegally. They were caught at the border by the Mexican police and are now in prison for 9 years.

The baby parrots are not old enough to feed themselves so are being fed by volunteers with a dropper. They have to be fed 3 times a day with Gerber baby food, like cereal and fruit. Some antibiotics and vitamin B12 and some other medicine have been added to the cereal to help them grow strong. They should be ready to feed themselves in about 2 weeks. Some are already doing so. It was an amazing experience feeding them with the dropper. When they get strong enough, they will be released back into the forest somewhere close to Mazatlan. We are hoping to be able to watch them when they are released. We were so happy to be able to help these poor little baby parrots that had been taken from their mamas.

Here is a little info on this type of parrot, which is the most prevalent type of parrot in Mexico.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange-fronted

This is a picture of just a few of the baby parrots. There were a whole lot more and they were very hungry and made lots of noise as you will notice in the video clip below.

Here is a video of us feeding the baby parrots with a dropper.