Is this really the world’s most dangerous bird?

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...
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Parrots turn the Australian sky into a living rainbow

Watch "Footloose," a rainbow lorikeet, practice free-flying as part of her exercise regimen at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Australia. Canada's Florida boycott 'taking effect' on Donald Trump—Doug ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Who's thriving and who's barely surviving in Australia, the Land of the Parrots?

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 ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Eastern ground parrot found in Narawntapu National Park, Tasmania

The Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service has confirmed the presence of the endangered eastern ground parrot in a northern Tasmanian national park — well outside the bird's known habitat. It is the ...
Australian Geographic

The enigma of the night parrot

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 ...
Cleveland.com

Vanished for a century, a rare bird reappears in the wild

Long believed to be extinct, Australia’s night parrot has defied expectations with its rediscovery in the country’s remote interior, Australian Geographic reported. Indigenous rangers and scientists ...
Earth.com

Rare and beautiful bird, thought to be extinct, is rediscovered after 100 years of no sightings

The Endangered night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) is one of the rarest birds in Australia, with fewer than 20 known alive ...
Los Angeles Times

There’s Owning a Bird and Then There’s Owning a Parrot. Here’s What You Need to Know.

So you’ve decided that owning a bird is going to be the next step of your pet journey. You went to that mom-and-pop pet store and gazed upon the wide variety of birds. Among the canaries and finches ...
Mongabay

African gray parrots get complete protection in DR Congo

The Democratic Republic of Congo has banned the capture and trade of African gray parrots nationally, protecting one of the world’s most trafficked birds, according to a national decree signed Aug. 13 ...
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Rising from the ashes: Foster Parrots sanctuary rebuilding after fire

HOPKINTON, R.I. (WPRI) — A mission to rebuild “bigger and better” after a devastating fire four years ago is ushering in a new day for Foster Parrots wildlife sanctuary in Hope Valley. “The fact that ...
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Australian 'trash parrots' have now developed a local 'drinking tradition'

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Klump et al., Biology Letters Wild cockatoos in Sydney, Australia have learned to drink ...