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PRO/AH> Beak and feather disease – Australia: (TS) endangered parrot
-- Worldwide/UnknownThe 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 Read more [...]
