Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Bird populations in mainland Australia have proved ...

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. Many native Australian parrots have weathered ...

Rachel Paltridge receives funding from the National Environmental Science Program's Resilient Landscapes Hub, and the Indigenous Desert Alliance. Clifford Sunfly is a Ngururrpa Ranger. The ranger ...

Few Australian birds have inspired as much awe, speculation and myth as the night parrot. Thought lost for more than a century, it’s one of the world’s great biological enigmas; a parrot that lives ...