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 ...

Critically endangered swift parrots are threatened by ongoing deforestation in the Australian state of Tasmania, with recent estimates suggesting there may be fewer than 300 left in the wild. Under ...

Vital nesting trees for Australia's critically endangered Swift parrot in a forest at Buckland in southern Tasmania, have been illegally logged. They were caught in the act by researcher Dejan ...

The Bob Brown Foundation launched a new website, SaveBrunyIsland.org, on May 3 with a peaceful demonstration outside Hobart's Parliament House. Conservationists held placards of the swift parrot, with ...

BIRDWATCHERS are on the lookout for a rare flock of critically endangered swift parrots that have made a neighbourhood in Port Macquarie a temporary feeding ground.

Lawyers for the Wilderness Society Tasmania are challenging the FPA’s decision to allow logging in Huon Valley forests identified as critical to the species’ survival. Right to Information documents ...

Australian birds that live on islands are among the species most at risk of extinction, a first-of-its-kind study from The Australian National University (ANU) has shown. Australia has over 750 native ...

Half of the world’s population of our endangered native swift parrots has been spotted in one flock in one location. ON A RECENT WINTER day, Julie Morgan, together with a few other volunteers from the ...