Saving Golden-shouldered Parrots on Artemis requires bold and coordinated action. The Artemis Nature Fund brings together the necessary expertise and support to make it happen. Our colleagues Steve Murphy and Patrick Webster are doing some great work trying to restore habitat for Golden-shouldered Parrots. If you want to see what they’re up to here are […]
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RARES Group PhD Candidate is researching the Carpentarian Grassrwren to understand the species’ relationship with fire, a key threatening process, to inform conservation management programs. The Carpentarian Grasswren is an iconic species of the Southern Gulf region that was listed as nationally endangered in 2016. With logistical support from Southern Gulf NRM, BirdLife Northern Queensland
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When their colleague raised questions about ‘records’ of the Buff-breasted Button-quail, Nicholas Leseberg and James Watson took a long, hard look at their own 1993 sightings. Now, they look at the role of the birding community in conservation science, and explore what birders can do better for bird conservation in the midst of the big
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On the centenary of the last irrefutable sighting of the elusive Buff-breasted Button-quail, Patrick Webster concludes a four-year search for the bird with a question: could the sightings from the last four decades be a case of mistaken identity? If you were asked ten years ago ‘what is Australia’s rarest bird?’, perhaps the Night Parrot
In humid savanna on Cape York Peninsula, February 5, 1922, a man was on the hunt with a local Indigenous guide. They had just heard their quarry calling among the tall grass – a low “oomm, oomm, oomm” – before it burst into view with a flurry of wingbeats. A loud shotgun blast, and the
An elusive, nocturnal parrot disappeared for more than a century. An unlikely rediscovery led to ornithological scandal — and then hope. Read more: Chasing the ‘Ghost Bird’ of Australia’a Outback First published 4 January 2022 by the New York Times
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By Chris MacColl. Red Goshawks are inherently rare owing to their relatively small population size (currently estimated at 1,340 individuals) spread over a wide distribution spanning the sub-tropical and tropical belts of eastern and northern Australia, at least historically. This endemic bird of prey has long been a mystery to western science: for more than
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A Rio Tinto research programme in Far North Queensland involving Australia’s rarest bird of prey has taken another step forward after the signing of a new Red Goshawk agreement with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC). Read more: Red Goshawk research continues to soar with new collaboration (riotinto.com) First published by Rio Tinto on 11 October
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AWC is engaged in an exciting project to improve our knowledge of one of Australia’s rarest and most mysterious endemic raptors – the Red Goshawk. Read more: Tracking Australia’s rarest bird of prey – AWC – Australian Wildlife Conservancy First published 1 May 2020 by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy
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Richard Seaton is a Senior Ecologist who led AWC’s science program in the north-east region for over three years. He has a lifelong passion for birds of prey, and recently authored a book on their identification. Richard joins us to discuss his work and an important research project into one of Australia’s rarest birds of
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