A plan to eradicate an introduced species, the Ring-necked Parakeet, from the Seychelles, a small archipelego in the Indian Ocean, to protect the Seychelles Black Parrot, an endemic and the national bird of Seychelles, is going forward.
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
I had no idea the Seychelles Black Parrot had been split. Interesting. Still, good on them for protecting the native.