The critically endangered swift parrot could decline to fewer than 50 birds. Image / File More than a quarter of the breeding range for one of the world’s rarest birds has been disturbed, degraded or ...

Conservation biologist Giselle Owens. Picture: Supplied. Dr Owens said the future for the swift parrot looked grim. “Habitat loss for the species is going to drive it towards extinction.

Over the same period, estimates suggest the number of critically endangered swift parrots left in the wild plummeted from 2,100 to fewer than 500. Australian National University researchers ...