A critically endangered nocturnal parrot that lives in the middle of Australia’s outback ‘has not evolved to see in the dark’, putting it at risk of crashing into fences A night parrot in ...

Australia’s night parrot is nocturnal, but the rare and elusive bird may not actually be able to see very well in the dark, according to a new study. In fact, the bird’s vision is likely ...

Indigenous rangers in outback Western Australia have found up to 50 night parrots – one of Australia’s most elusive birds – in a “breakthrough discovery”. In arid inland Australia lives one of ...

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.

Using high-resolution CT scans on museum specimens, researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, were able to analyze the anatomy of the elusive night parrot to find out how it ...

Australia’s Indigenous rangers have helped discover a previously unknown population of the night parrot – one of the rarest birds in the continent thought to have been extinct for over a century.

Furthermore, digital models of the Night Parrot’s bones are now available ... into the special sensory powers of this intriguing Australian bird, which lives in remote arid pockets of the ...

We’re here in the hope of seeing the night parrot, the most mysterious of Australian birds. The night parrot was first recorded by Western observers in 1845, when a member of Charles Sturt’s ...

“Researchers will also be able to run statistical analyses on the genome of this individual to estimate past population sizes of night parrot populations in Australia. “Now, we have the ...

He works for Bush Heritage Australia, and as a consultant on night parrots for many projects. University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU.