Reading desert sands—Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project
Phys.org - Sun 29 Sep 24As 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 24In 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 24Critically 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 24Around 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 24The 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 24Using sound recordings, the team identified the largest known population of the night parrot, a secretive species known as the "Holy Grail of birdwatching"
Largest Colony Of Night Parrots, One Of The World’s Rarest Birds, Discovered
IFLScience - Mon 23 Sep 24 Desert Sands: Indigenous Wildlife Tracking Aids Monitoring, Mirage News - Thu 26 Sep 24Indigenous Rangers in WA Discover Up to 50 Elusive Night Parrots, Mirage News - Sun 22 Sep 24