Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 2:13 
The Western Ground Parrot is endangered and numbers are at a critical low. (Brent Barrett, DEC - ABC Local Radio)If you've ever been to the Fitzgerald or Cape Arid national parks after sunset you might have been surprised to hear a high pitched whistle piping through the darkness.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 9:58 
Tiaho the Kakapo being treated at Massey University. Photo: Massey University.Vets hope a young Kakapo being treated at the Massey University Wildlife Ward can be returned to the wild next week. Five-month-old Tiaho was one of 24 chicks hand-reared from the 34 born this year. There are only 124 Kakapo left in the world at present.
Strigops habroptilus - Kakapo | in Conservation, Disease, Research Monday, June 29, 2009 at 12:42 
FLIGHT CLEARANCE: Final inspection by Richard Joseph, Zookeeper 111 and Nirmal Biptah, curator of the Emperor Valley Zoo.Conservation Advisor of the Zoological Society of Trinidad and Tobago, Nadra Nathai-Gyan has announced that six pairs of blue and gold macaws bred in captivity at the Emperor Valley Zoo are to be released in early July into the Nariva Swamp.
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 4:52 
Residents in southern Ocean Beach began Wednesday, June 24, without power. At about 8:30 a.m. one of the many parrots inhabiting O.B. landed on a transformer in the alley between Santa Cruz Avenue and Del Monte Avenue causing it to explode.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 12:34 
Photo: Lear's Macaw pair by Ciro Ginez AlbanoThe Lear’s Macaw, a striking blue parrot found in northeastern Brazil, has been downlisted from Critically Endangered (the highest threat category) to Endangered as a direct result of conservation action, revealed the 2009 update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
