Kākāpō changed colour to escape largest ever eagles
Genetic analysis has revealed why New Zealand’s native flightless parrot, kākāpō, are just as likely to have green or olive-coloured feathers.
A green kākāpō named Sinbad. Credit: Jake Osborne, DOC.
Night parrot’s full genome offers hope for the elusive species…The mysterious night parrot was long thought extinct, but a handful of birds were found to be clinging on in the 2010s.Now, Australian scientists have another way to help it: they’ve sequenced and annotated the night parrot’s genome.
Largest known population of night parrots foundThe known population of night parrots doubled this year, with the discovery of a new population in the Ngururrpa Indigenous Protected Area.