“It is a lot compared to every year pretty much since the late 80s and early 90s,” said Shannon Troy, a wildlife biologist in the program. “It is really, really great.”
Orange-bellied parrots migrate to the southern coast of Australia each year for autumn and winter. Not every bird will survive migration but those that do will return to Melaleuca to breed during summer.
In November last year, 51 birds returned to the breeding site, which was the best result in more than decade.
Researchers released another 31 adult, captive-bred birds during the breeding season to balance the ratio of males to females and increase the number of breeding pairs.
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