Throsby development halved for parrot habitat




Dejan Stojanovic and a baby Swift parrotEMILY BOURKE: The endangered swift parrot lives in south-east Australia, but the species only breeds in Tasmania. A scientist who's spending his summer climbing trees to study the parrots has found that the birds will only nest in particular hollows.
Felicity Ogilvie reports from Bruny Island.
FELICITY OGILVIE: The endangered Swift Parrots have made their nest in the hollow of a dead tree in a forest on Bruny Island. The nest is 18 metres off the ground and there's a chick inside.
(Sound of chick cry)
RI bills would spare birds with psittacosis and allow parrots to be microchipped instead of fitted with ID bands.The Rhode Island House and Senate proposed companion bills that would allow psittacine birds, also known as parrots, to be microchipped instead of fitted with an identifying band and permit birds exposed to psittacosis to be treated rather than destroyed.