Friends of the Aviary is helping birds in the area find new foster homes after having to close its Westdale location last ...

The pet songbird trade in ... the populations left in Asia's tropical forests would gradually become "more drab". The most striking, uniquely coloured birds would be the first to be lost.

Ferreira, who lives in Brampton, adopted Oscar a couple of months ago from Friends of the Aviary, a charity that helps tropical birds ... to keep their pet bird and don't want to rehome.