Volunteers and researchers are working together to aid the orange-bellied parrots in their migration and boost their numbers in the wild.
And while their numbers finally seem to be heading in the right direction, there's still a long way to go. Georgie Burgess at the ABC, explaining how volunteers have been crucial to helping researchers figure out how to aid these difficult birds that have seemed stubbornly set on becoming extinct. to effectively boost the species' numbers in the wild.
Most youngsters have not been surviving the journey between their summer breeding ground in Melaleuca Tasmania, and their warm, winter foraging sites on the southern coastal salt marshes of mainland Australia. Orange-bellied parrots are one of only three parrot species that undergo the perilous task of a long distance migration, a task that requires a. Just 58 of the 139 birds that left Melaleuca made it back last year, but this is higher than previous years. The threats these small fragile avians face are manifold. Their winter habitats have been decimated by agriculture and urban development since European settlement
Orange-Bellied Parrots Migration Volunteers Researchers Species Extinction Breeding Ground Foraging Sites Threats Agriculture Urban Development
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