— Worldwide/Unknown
The last wild population of an Australian parrot on the brink of extinction has been hit with a potentially deadly disease, leading to a disastrous breeding season and fears that the orange-bellied parrots’ annual migration from Tasmania to Victoria and South Australia this winter could be its last.
The threatened species commissioner, Gregory Andrews, confirmed yesterday [31 May 2015] that he had been briefed on an outbreak of beak and feather disease in the only wild population of
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