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Reading desert sands—Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project

Phys.org - Sun 29 Sep 24

As animals move across the desert, they leave tracks, diggings and droppings. For skilled trackers, reading these signs is like watching a movie. A story of who was there and what they were ...

Indigenous outback rangers in WA find up to 50 night parrots, among Australia's most elusive birds

Phys.org - Mon 23 Sep 24

In arid inland Australia lives one of Australia's rarest birds: the night parrot. Missing for more than a century, a live population was rediscovered in 2013. But the species remains elusive.

Indigenous rangers find secret population of one of Australia’s rarest birds

The Independent - Mon 23 Sep 24

Critically endangered birds threatened by forest fire, scientists warn

Australia's largest night parrot population may be protected by dingoes, but mining is planned for their desert home

ABC Science - Sun 22 Sep 24

Around half of the nation's total known night parrots live in a patch of the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. While dingoes appear to protect them, the potential effects of ...

Largest known population of ultra-rare night parrots found

Cosmos Magazine - Sun 22 Sep 24

The night parrot. Credit: Rachel Murphy After a century of presumed extinction, the ground dwelling Australian night parrot was revealed a decade ago to not be gone at all – just vanishingly, ...

Rare and Elusive Australian Bird, Once Thought Extinct for 100 Years, Discovered by Indigenous Rangers and Scientists

Smithsonian Magazine - Thu 26 Sep 24

Using sound recordings, the team identified the largest known population of the night parrot, a secretive species known as the "Holy Grail of birdwatching"