Critically endangered parrot narrowly pips the tawny frogmouth, runner-up for the third time in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll
Voters in the Guardian/BirdLife Australia biennial poll have used this year’s competition to send a message that they want to see the habitat of the world’s fastest parrot protected.
Even without the key threat of logging of its habitat factored in, the modelling found there would be fewer than 100 individuals in the population by 2031, with a mean population of just 58 birds, unless there was drastic conservation intervention. Chart showing the number of votes for each bird in the final top 101 Swift parrot 11,1712 Tawny frogmouth 10,7293 Gang-gang cockatoo 7,1904 Laughing kookaburra 4,3575 Willie wagtail 4,1836 Carnaby’s black-cockatoo 3,8597 Australian magpie 3,6078 Spotted pardalote 3,5569 Gouldian finch 3,36810 Peregrine falcon 3,364
“In a field of abject despair, it’s the most distressing case of all because it’s within our powers to fix it and we refuse to,” he said.
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