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 ...

T he night parrot—a brilliantly colored, nocturnal bird—once thrived in Australia’s outback. The arrival of colonists and ...

First he thought it was a hopping mouse, but in the glow of the still-switched-on headlights, he found himself looking straight at one of the rarest animals in Australia, a night parrot (Pezoporus ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Vibrant green wings falter as the parrot tries ... the lorikeets of the night,” says Jane Hall, wildlife health project officer at Taronga Conservation Society Australia, a nonprofit whose ...

“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.

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...