Australia’s critically endangered orange-bellied parrots, Neophema chrysogaster, are a tiny and decreasing population of migratory parrots.Although these small parrots can live up to 11 years ...

And it is this level of commitment that I think help justify the orange-bellied parrot as a special case. Some think a failure to increase the population over 30 years as a failure.

The orange-bellied parrots breed within a short window of a few weeks. They get in while the weather is nice in Melaleuca, then leave shortly after. It means Stojanovic and his team have to work ...

Australia's orange-bellied parrot spends winter fossicking in the coastal salt marshes of Victoria and South Australia before returning from late September to Melaleuca in the Southwest National Park.

The endangered orange-bellied parrot has lost 62 per cent of its genetic diversity and can only be saved by breeding with another species or editing its genes, a study suggests.

The endangered orange-bellied parrot has lost 62 per cent of its genetic diversity and can only be saved by breeding with another species or editing its genes, a study suggests.

Newly released footage showed critically endangered Orange-Bellied Parrot chicks receiving a vet check as part of an effort to save the species.The footage from Zoos Victoria in Australia shows staff ...

Filmmaker Matthew Newton recently gained unprecedented access to theFive Mile Beach Wildlife Management Facility to document the work of a group of dedicated staff and volunteers, rostered on around ...

Orange-bellied parrots, all but extinct, survive Tasmanian summer only to die migrating. August 17, 2020. The story of the orange-bellied parrot, a small migratory bird that breeds in Tasmania’s ...

Captive breeding of threatened species for release into the wild is an important conservation tool. But where threats to wild populations remain unr ...

OVER the past five years, 60 orange bellied parrots in the government’s captive breeding program were euthanised as a result of illness, welfare concerns or injury, but the number of birds ...