{"id":46237,"date":"2025-12-16T14:54:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/?p=46237"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:27:16","slug":"lafebers-global-parrot-conservation-spotlight-december-2025-sierra-leones-timneh-greys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/lafebers-global-parrot-conservation-spotlight-december-2025-sierra-leones-timneh-greys\/","title":{"rendered":"Lafeber\u2019s Global Parrot Conservation Spotlight December 2025: Sierra Leone&#8217;s Timneh Parrots"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46239\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46239 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Timneh-parrot_Rowan-Martin-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"timneh grey parrot in tree\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Timneh-parrot_Rowan-Martin-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Timneh-parrot_Rowan-Martin-1200x793.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Timneh-parrot_Rowan-Martin-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Timneh-parrot_Rowan-Martin.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Timneh grey parrot perches on a tree. Image courtesy of Rowan Martin\/WPT.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Republic of Sierra Leone, located on the west coast of Africa, encompasses a diverse range of habitats and wildlife. It is home to several parrot species, including Senegal parrots, Red-headed lovebirds, and Timneh parrots. The Timneh parrot (<em>Psittacus timneh<\/em>) was formerly classified as a subspecies of the grey parrot but is now considered its own distinct species. There is no natural habitat overlap with the Congo African grey (<em>Psittacus <\/em><em>erithacus<\/em>). The Timneh ranges from Guinea-Bissau in the north to the Ivory Coast in the south. Timneh habitat includes dense forest, savanna woodlands, and mangroves.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46240\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46240 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/timneh-01-co-Rowan-Martin-WPT-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"timneh parrot in tree\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/timneh-01-co-Rowan-Martin-WPT-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/timneh-01-co-Rowan-Martin-WPT-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/timneh-01-co-Rowan-Martin-WPT.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Timneh grey parrot sits near a tree nest cavity. Image courtesy of Rowan Martin\/WPT.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Rowan Martin and Abu Bakarr Konneh, a researcher working with the <a href=\"https:\/\/parrots.org\/\">World Parrot Trust (WPT)<\/a>, Timneh African grey parrot populations have undergone dramatic declines and are threatened by habitat loss and exploitation for the wildlife trade, leading to their classification as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Recent research conducted by a multi-organizational team indicates that the coastal mangroves of Sierra Leone, and especially the Sherbro River Estuary, support globally important populations of Timneh parrots. This includes nesting areas and a communal roost site used by several hundred Timneh parrots. However, these populations and, in particular, key breeding, roosting, and feeding sites, lack adequate protection.<\/p>\n<h3>Building A Community of Parrot Champions<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46243\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46243 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4049-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"group of researchers with binoculara\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4049-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4049-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/pet-birds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_4049.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent graduate from the AP Leventis Ornithological Institute, Abu Bakarr Konneh&#8217;s research uncovered the importance of the coastal region of Sierra Leone for Timneh parrots. Image courtesy of Rowan Martin\/WPT.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Sherbro Timneh Parrot Project, funded by a grant from BirdLife<br \/>\nInternational, builds on research and community-engagement initiatives conducted to date by the WPT and its project partner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westafricablue.org\/\">West Africa Blue<\/a>. They are training a network of 20 community \u201cparrot champions\u201d to establish a long-term monitoring program for Timneh parrots. This team will identify key parrot sites, including roosting and nesting areas, and secure the protection of these sites through interventions focused on raising awareness and improving livelihoods. Critically, this project supports the establishment of a \u201cblue carbon\u201d initiative to conserve and restore coastal ecosystems, as these are robustly linked to Timneh parrots and their mangrove habitats. This will enable sustainable long-term conservation funding for the protection of mangrove forests, which are essential to the survival of the Timneh parrot in this area of Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s Lafeber donation goes to support monthly workshops to train twenty Sherbro \u201ccommunity\u00a0champions\u201d, equip them to gather data, and provide education in neighboring communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s Lafeber Globak Conservation spotlight supports the community-led conservation in Sierra Leone to protect mangrove habitats critical to the survival of the Endangered Timneh parrot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9047,"featured_media":46239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday","category-new","bird-type-african-grey"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lafeber\u2019s Global Parrot Conservation Spotlight December 2025: Sierra Leone&#039;s Timneh Parrots &#8211; 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She loves to promote parrot care information that helps birds to thrive, and works with other Phoenix Landing volunteers to make good adoption matches. Her passion is nutrition and she wrote the \u201cNourish to Flourish\u201d cookbook. She is a huge fan of the quality products offered by Lafeber. Ann also organizes an annual Phoenix Landing eco-tour to support wild parrot conservation and research. That interest led to this Lafeber series, called \u201cThe Global Parrot.\u201d She hopes others will also support the many dedicated scientists who are working so hard to preserve the parrots species we love and value so much. Ann has lived with birds for over 35 years. Phoenix, her greenwing macaw, is the inspiration behind Phoenix Landing. Most birds need a succession of good homes, through no fault of their own. She realized that Phoenix should outlive her, and wanted to make sure there was a reliable adoption apparatus in place to ensure that Phoenix has a place to \u201cland.\u201d So she retired from her senior federal position to volunteer full-time with Phoenix Landing, which turned 25 years old in April 2025. By 2025, Phoenix Landing had rehomed more than 3,500 birds. Some of these have even required more than one home because people\u2019s lives often change. Adoption is a positive, not a negative, way to acquire a deserving bird. Phoenix Landing believes that parrots need to be protected across their long lives and probable multiple homes. Ann believes that adoption is inevitable and organizations that provide life-long protection for individual birds is essential. 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