New Scientist vol 125 issue 1708
- 17 March 90,BIRD conservationists are to investigate the use of microchip implants for rare parrots involved in controlled captive breeding programmes. The implants would protect the parrots from theft.
The decision comes shortly after the return of a stolen Moluccan cockatoo, bought by an unwitting customer as a pet, to its home at Birdworld in Farnham, Surrey.
Peter Bennett, conservation coordinator to the National Federation of Zoos, says that microchip implants are a far more accurate and reliable identification technique than methods such as leg rings.
Chips the thickness of a pencil lead and a few millimetres long can be enclosed in glass and inserted painlessly into a bird's muscle. The chip's 10-digit bar code is then identified on a liquid crystal display unit using a hand-held reader which can be connected to a computer.
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