Scientists have discovered when endangered night parrots leave the safety of their hideouts to drink at waterholes, in a breakthrough which could help boost the population. Venturing out from the ...

An incredibly rare bird once thought extinct has been caught on a trail camera in Queensland's outback, exhilarating wildlife experts and offering new hope for conservation efforts. The night parrot, ...

The blurry image of a night parrot lifting off from near the water’s edge was captured on the very first night they placed motion-triggered cameras in the bush, and the bird’s song was captured a few ...

The night parrot is a small green-and-yellow-coloured species, officially known as Pezoporus occidentalis, that has not been ...

A scientific project aimed at ensuring the protection of one of the world's most elusive birds, the night parrot, will be expanded in central-west Queensland. The project was set to wind up at the end ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...