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When we think captive wildlife in crisis, our focus stays on the large charismatic mammals. Our conservation landscape has expanded to those places that flow where land ends, to our oceans, rivers, lakes, and forests. But there is an immense space that ties all this together- the skies above us, and the multitude of exotic birds that inhabit them, that are now available as pets and companions. Spectacular birds have become a part of the human landscape to inhabiting our living rooms, often with little knowledge by their owners of their unique needs. Societies value birds for economic, cultural
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