Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 12:49 
Kaka Casey and Russell Evans at Bush Haven bird sanctuary in Otatara. Image by JOHN HAWKINSWhen Otatara couple Darren and Joanna May spotted a kaka in their yard they took it as reward for all their pest control efforts.
Nestor meridionalis - Kaka | in Conservation, Urban parrots Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 12:32 
The swift parrot breeds in Tasmania and migrates north to south eastern Australia from Griffith-Warialda in New South Wales and west to Adelaide in the winter. Image by CHRIS TZAROS
Forestry Tasmania is being urged to stop logging in 3 per cent of its native forest logging area because it is habitat for the endangered swift parrot.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 13:03 
Two Kakariki chicks have hatched at Natureland. The five week old chick surveys its enclosure.The hatching of two native parrots at Natureland is a sign that the recently established kakariki breeding program is off to a flying start.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 12:56 
Tucuman Parrots like this one require tree cavities and access to pino blanco seeds to successfully reproduce. Credit: L. Rivera The Tucuman Parrot (Amazona tucumana) is found only on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Bolivia and Argentina, in a region known as the Southern Yungas forest. In the 1980s, its population suffered a severe decline due to capture for the pet trade, and it has never recovered. Conservation efforts have focused on protecting swaths of Southern Yungas habitat, but new research published in The Condor: Ornithological Applications highlights the ways in which this strategy may fall short. Anna Pidgeon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her colleagues found that only 19% of the Southern Yungas is actually suitable breeding habitat for these parrots, and only 15% of breeding habitat is under any form of protection. Not all Southern Yungas forest is the same, and protecting habitat can only work if it includes what Tucuman Parrots actually need to successfully reproduce: tree cavities to nest in, and plenty of mature pino blanco (Podocarpus parlatorei), the evergreen trees whose seeds are the primary food for the nestlings.
Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 15:05 
Steve Murphy holds the worlds only ever captured Night Parrot. Picture: Rachel Barr Somewhere beneath the spinifex, nestled amid seemingly unending gibber rock plains and red soil, lies the holy grail of bird watching.
