Orange-bellied parrot illustration in watercolour and gouache sitting on a stick on a white background. The bird is predominantly green with blue and aqua on brow and wing. It has yellow around a distinctive orange underside.

Orange-bellied parrot 🦜✏️ at #AdelaideZoo in watercolour and gouache. These little birds are critically endangered in the wild. #orangebelliedparrot #illustration #bird #birds

Life Support in the Wild #FloraAndFaunaFriday and the uncomfortable truth about Australia's Orange-bellied-parrotI first met the Orange-bellied Parrot when I was Australia’s Threatened Species Commissioner. Impossibly small. ...

This is what “functional extinction” looks like.

Still here. But only just. Australia’s Orange-bellied parrot.

Read the full story.👇🏽

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#FloraAndFaunaFriday #OrangeBelliedParrot #Biodiversity

An oil painting of a native Australian Orange Bellied Parrot set against a decorative pink and green floral pattern. The perched parrot is yellow with tinges of lime green, blue and red belly.

Australian Parrot and Decorative Bird Art 🌿💛🩷🌿
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#OrangeBelliedParrot #JanMatsonArt #AustralianBirdArt #BirdArt #InteriorDesignArt #AustralianWildlifeArt #ColorfulBirdArt #BirdArtist #DecorativeArt #StatementArt

Orange-bellied parrots have swelled back from imminent extinction – but now they face a new threat Experts warn approving a windfarm in the habitat of one of Australia’s most critically endangered birds could be ‘rolling the dice’ on their survival

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I’m all for wind farms but not in the migration path of an very endangered bird - At the very least don’t operate it during migration season #OrangeBelliedParrot

Wildlife Photographer Pleads Guilty to Trespassing on Private Island to Photograph Rare Parrots An acclaimed wildlife photographer has pleaded guilty to trespassing on a private island to photograph critically endangered orange-bellied parrots. [Read More]

It seems Aust Govt thinks you can address climate crisis by destroying ecosystems and sending threatened species to extinction. #orangebelliedparrot. You cannot. Climate and Biodiversity are two sides of same coin. Resilience in ecosystems is critical to climate.

The Daily Lift:
After years of conservation work, orange-bellied parrots are making a record-breaking return across Australia—the biggest migration in decades. Proof that persistence (and a whole lot of care) pays off. #TheDailyLift #GoodNews #ConservationWorks #WildlifeWin #OrangeBelliedParrot

200 endangered captive - bred juvenile orange-bellied parrots has been released into the wild in Tasmania's south-west as part of efforts to conserve the species.

Hope takes flight! 🕊️ 200 captive-bred orange-bellied parrots—a critically endangered species—were released into Tasmania's wild, boosting their chances of survival. #OrangeBelliedParrot #Conservation #Tasmania #Wildlife

Is it really acceptable to drive species to extinction #TasmanianDevil #OrangebelliedParrot to increase energy supply as a corporate and Govt ‘economic growth’ strategy? Energy is an essential service in public interest. As a ‘for profit’ traded commodity it has become extinction driver.

There are some places where wind farms should not be sited and at the bottom end of the East Asian Australasian Flyway is one of them. Robbins Is is possibly worst place for a windfarm. #MigratoryShorebirds #TasDevils #Orangebelliedparrot
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Sharing the beach with #racehorses will push #HoodedPlover and #OrangeBelliedParrot further towards extinction.
#BelfastCoastalReserve is critical habitat, so @LilyDAmbrosioMP @DELWP_Vic, please #MindTheHoodies and #ActForBirds.

SAY NO to racehorse training in irreplaceable #WildOz habitat! Rutledges Cutting is the largest flocking site for #HoodedPlovers + home to critically endangered #OrangeBelliedParrot.
#MindTheHoodies👉
📷:G Ehmke, C Tzaros

8/8 Please COMMENT on the Draft Plan until 16 March! We ask you to give #HoodedPlover #shorebirds #OrangeBelliedParrot an opportunity! Visit
#MindTheHoodies #WildOz