Indian Indigenous rangers and scientists have revealed secrets of the elusive night parrot. These small green-and-yellow birds are hard to protect. They hide in thick desert grass by day. At night, ...

The night parrot, once presumed extinct and later rediscovered, has had its largest known population discovered on Indigenous land in the Ngurrurpa Indigenous Protected Area of Western Australia, by ...

Most bird experts thought that it had all but gone extinct in the 1960s, with only a handful of rare sightings – including the remains of two dead individuals 25 years ago and some not uncontroversial ...

Some elusive birds can be hard to protect, particularly when they move under cover of darkness and lie low in thick desert grass. This is the case with the night parrot-- a small green-and-yellow ...

After decades of near-mythical status, the night parrot has been rediscovered in Western Australia's Ngururrpa Indigenous Protected Area. Indigenous rangers and scientists, using acoustic recorders, ...

Elen Shute previously received a PhD scholarship from Flinders University and a fee-waiver scholarship via the Federal Government. She is employed by Flinders University and the Nature Conservation ...

Rio Tinto has cut the planned footprint of its Winu copper-gold project by 14,000 hectares to protect Aboriginal heritage sites and a rare night parrot habitat. Simon Trott-led Rio has cut the ...

An elusive, nocturnal parrot disappeared for more than a century. An unlikely rediscovery led to ornithological scandal — and then hope. By Anthony Ham There had been no confirmed sightings of a live ...

Michelle Ward received funding from the Research and Training Program by the Federal Government. She is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and a Conservation Scientist at WWF ...