Review: Adults, too, will like children's book on rare bird

Kakapo Rescue - Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Last April I had the pleasure of hearing Sy Montgomery talk about her book, "Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot" at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. The occasion was a meeting of the Washington Children's Book Guild at which Montgomery was presented with the Guild's nonfiction award for her body of work.

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A plucky parrot that weighs so little, but means so much

The orange-bellied beauty is emblematic as we try to save threatened species. 

Orange-bellied parrot. Image by Tony MorrisTHE last Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart Zoo in 1936. Now another Tasmanian, the orange-bellied parrot, is in poor shape.

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Land added to SA conservation park

Orange-bellied Parrot Photo: Roger SmithMore than 300 hectares of wetlands in South Australia's southeast have been added to a conservation park to protect local wildlife, including an endangered parrot.

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Bushfires threaten rare parrot home

Western Ground Parrot. Image by Brent BarrettEfforts to save Western Australia's critically endangered Western Ground Parrot have suffered a setback after bushfires destroyed some of their habitat over the weekend.

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Holding the fate of a species in caring hands

An object of beauty, critically endangered: the orange-bellied parrot in flight. Photo: Justin McManus

THERE are moments when the Tasmanian wilderness achieves pure silence, leaving city ears straining for noise.

Here at Melaleuca, six days' walk from the nearest road, such moments of peace are typically broken by bird calls, including the distinct buzzing of the orange-bellied parrot.

Like many Australian families, orange-bellied parrots reunite every summer at the same idyllic spot by the water. After wintering in coastal Victoria and South Australia, almost every orange-bellied parrot in the wild comes back to Melaleuca to breed.

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