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Birds in the News 149 - Oct 27, 2008 ScienceBlogsOne of Australia's rarest and fastest birds, the swift parrot, seems to be plummeting in number, and logging has been blamed. Sightings of the flashy red
Tree divides council - Oct 28, 2008 Great Lakes Advocate,The grey ironbark is a browse tree for the swift parrot during its irregular winter visits to the area. A final vote saw Crs Tuffy, Roberts, Stephens,
Where the wild things are - Sep 8, 2008 The Age,Birds Australia's Chris Tzaros, who chairs the swift parrot recovery team, explains that with just 2500 of these colourful birds remaining nationally,
City goes wild as natives struggle on in strangest of places - Sep 1, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald,..."The swift parrot is sometimes recorded foraging in flowering screetscape and parkland trees" and some species of bats roost "in a variety of artificial
Help save native species Under threat - Sep 9, 2008 South Western Rural Advertiser,...are under threat in Chipping Norton, Hammondville and Casula while the regent honeyeater, swift parrot and koala are at risk throughout the areas.
Call to save Parramatta's threatened species - Sep 1, 2008 Parramatta Sun,Landcare Week as a new study shows that wildlife species like the Koala, the Grey-headed Flying-fox and the Swift Parrot are under threat in the area.
Eyes needed to sight parrot - Aug 10, 2008 The Mercury,BUDDING environmentalists and birdwatchers are being urged to report sightings of the endangered swift parrot this breeding season.
Scottsdale helps to reverse climate change - Jul 30, 2008 Cooma Monaro Express,And at Tarcutta Hills Reserve in NSW, there were positive recordings of the swift parrot, a nationally endangered bird that favours grassy white box
Wielangta and the forest wars - Jul 19, 2008 Green Left Weekly,...(RFA) was damaging to the natural habitat of the swift parrot, the Wielangta stag beatle and the Tasmanian wedgetail eagle — all endangered species.
Political neglect will lead to parrot's swift demise - Nov 18, 2007 The Canberra Times,Pity the swift parrot: it has the misfortune to tilt against a pulp mill, rather than a windmill, like its orange-bellied cousin famously did.
Brown's logging ban bid fails - Nov 29, 2007 The Mercury,...impact" on three endangered species that live in the forest -- the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, the broad-toothed stag beetle and the swift parrot.
Tamar Valley pulp mill: Full conditions - Oct 3, 2007 Daily Telegraph,At least another 34 hectares must be reserved by Gunns Limited as foraging habitat for the Swift Parrot. A further 20 hectares may also need to be reserved
Toxic fears for seal pups and penguins - Oct 4, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,These include the disruption of nesting wedge-tailed eagles, loss of habitat for the swift parrot and the spreading of an amphibian fungus that can cause
Tas pulp mill may get federal nod 'soon' - 20 Aug 2007 Brisbane Times,...of land that will become new habitat for the Tasmanian devil, spot-tailed quoll, eastern barred bandicoot, swift parrot and the southern bell frog.
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