News Headline
Numbers of critically endangered orange-bellied parrot soar from low 20s to more than 100
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Publication Date
2020-04-28
There has been little good to say about the recent history of the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot. Numbers of the small migratory bird, which makes a return trip from Tasmania’s south-west wilderness to the mainland’s coastal scrubland each year, have fallen so sharply scientists consider it at risk of extinction within five years.