23 September 2024 - Flock of Australia's rarest bird discovered in WA
Australia's largest night parrot population may be protected by dingoes, but mining in remote WA habitat planned
Peter de Kruijff (ABC Net, 22/09/2024)
The largest known population of night parrots, around 50 birds, is believed to live in a remote Indigenous Protected Area in Western Australia.
A new study suggests the rare parrots may be protected by dingoes.
‘Equivalent of Tasmanian tiger for bird watchers’ discovered in Western Australia desert
Petra Stock (The Guardian, 22/09/2024)
The largest known population of one of Australia’s rarest birds has been found living in Western Australia’s Great Sandy desert.
‘Breakthrough discovery’: Indigenous Rangers in outback WA find up to 50 night parrots – one of Australia’s most elusive birds
Rachel Paltridge, Clifford Sunfly and Nicholas Leseberg (The Conversation, 22/09/2024)
In arid inland Australia lives one of Australia’s rarest birds: the night parrot. Missing for more than a century, a live population was rediscovered in 2013. But the species remains elusive.
Largest group of Australia's most elusive bird uncovered hiding in plain sight in WA's remote Pilbara
Lara Pearce (9News, 23/09/2024)
A bird carcass in Queensland in 1990. A single feather inside a wedge-tailed eagle's nest in South Australia in 2017. A first-in-a-century capture in western Queensland in 2016.