The following story from Metro outlining PPs skills at the craft table ... I also hear that Crow is looking for a bird in New Zealand!!
http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/06/glues-...-tape-4447241/
Glue’s a pretty boy then? Rare parrot chick hatches from crushed egg held together with sticky tape.
Ingenuity and lots of sticky tape and glue have helped a rare parrot chick survive against the odds.
When conservationists found a crushed kakapo egg in its mother Lisa’s nest, they may have been forgiven if they had decided to discard the specimen.
Instead, rescuers painstakingly pieced the broken shell back together using tape and glue – and after a long wait the chick has finally hatched.
It is the first kakapo chick to be born anywhere in the world for three years – and, having survived its big break, the birth has been dubbed ‘miraculous’ by rescuers who cared for it.
Ranger Jo Ledington was able to repair the egg as the membrane was still intact. The tiny chick, named Lisa One – for now, until its sex can be determined – is being kept in an incubator and receiving round-the-clock attention
Deidre Vercoe Scott, of the Kakapo recovery centre, on Codfish Island, New Zealand, where the chick was born, said: ‘It was touch and go for a few days but our expert team’s dedication paid off.’
Kakapos – also called owl parrots – are flightless birds native to New Zealand, where they have been considered an endangered species since the 1950s.
Lisa One’s birth brings the world’s total population of kakapos to 125.
Four more complete eggs found in Lisa’s nest are being kept in an incubator, and should hatch later this month.
http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/06/glues-...-tape-4447241/
Glue’s a pretty boy then? Rare parrot chick hatches from crushed egg held together with sticky tape.
Ingenuity and lots of sticky tape and glue have helped a rare parrot chick survive against the odds.
When conservationists found a crushed kakapo egg in its mother Lisa’s nest, they may have been forgiven if they had decided to discard the specimen.
Instead, rescuers painstakingly pieced the broken shell back together using tape and glue – and after a long wait the chick has finally hatched.
It is the first kakapo chick to be born anywhere in the world for three years – and, having survived its big break, the birth has been dubbed ‘miraculous’ by rescuers who cared for it.
Ranger Jo Ledington was able to repair the egg as the membrane was still intact. The tiny chick, named Lisa One – for now, until its sex can be determined – is being kept in an incubator and receiving round-the-clock attention
Deidre Vercoe Scott, of the Kakapo recovery centre, on Codfish Island, New Zealand, where the chick was born, said: ‘It was touch and go for a few days but our expert team’s dedication paid off.’
Kakapos – also called owl parrots – are flightless birds native to New Zealand, where they have been considered an endangered species since the 1950s.
Lisa One’s birth brings the world’s total population of kakapos to 125.
Four more complete eggs found in Lisa’s nest are being kept in an incubator, and should hatch later this month.
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