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One hundred years ago the exquisitely beautiful bird was briefly rediscovered. Will its story help save species threatened today?
The paradise parrot was rediscovered by Cyril Jerrard, a Queensland grazier, in December 1921. But its return was fleeting.
Exactly 100 years ago tomorrow, a bird that had been relegated to extinction made a comeback. The exquisitely beautiful paradise parrot was
Last modified on Mon 3 May 2021 06.04 EDT Few but the most dedicated ornithologist will know anything about Australiaâs Paradise parrot. That is because it has the dubious distinction of being the only mainland Australian bird marked âextinctâ by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Its premature vanishment almost a century ago, meanwhile, remains prescient today when it comes to how best to protect other threatened Australian avian species. That the Paradise parrot â Psephotellus pulcherimus â was already on the verge of extinction by 1900 in its ...