Australia is home to one-sixth of the world's parrot population. Nearly 60 species of parrot call the country home, thanks to ...

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 the darkness ...

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Australia is the land of the parrot — few places in the world have such a dazzling array of colourful and clever members of the psittacine family.

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When Barbara Klump ran into homeowners on trash-collection day, she would tell them that something very special was happening in their suburb of Sydney. She meant the birds. The big white ones?, the ...

Are some birds more likely to go extinct than others? What traits do they share that makes them more susceptible to extinction? Knowing the answers to these questions are important for helping ...