After last being sighted in the area in 1883 , researcher have found evidence that one of the world ’s rarest and most elusive raspberry isstill stick on in the state of South Australia . This is the first time in over 100 years that the Nox parrot has been confirmed to be living here , and radically expands the know kitchen range of the plump puppet .
The existence of the nighttime parrot had long go by into birding legend . formally , the chunky green - and - yellow striped doll from Australia had not been seen for over a 100 , although hints that it still pull round in the distant outback from time to time filtered through .
That was until 2013 , when to the astonishment of bird watcher and conservationists alike , researchers revealed that they had not only get a line and filmed the night parrot for the first time ever in Queensland , but that they had even grapple tocatch and ticket one . This was followed by even more incredible tidings earlier this year that another population of the little birds had beendiscovered in Western Australia .
Now , the same researcher who made the initial rediscovery of the parrot in Queensland has done it again , and confirm that the bird also still subsist in the commonwealth of South Australia . A blurry photographic camera trap image topple John Young and his workfellow Keith Bellchambers off to the possibleness that the bird was slip around . When they found one small-scale green - and - yellow feather weave into the bed of insulation at the bottom of a zebra finch nest , they were both shocked and stunned .
“ Zebra finch just love to build their nests in the base of a submarine - tailed Eagle ’s nest , so we walk over to investigate,”recountsthe Australian Wildlife Conservancy ’s John Young . “ Keith and I looked at many zebra finch ’ nests before finally an unmistakable small green feather appear within the fresh base lining of one of the nest . ”
concord to Young , there was “ no doubt " that it belong to to the rare night parrot , and substantiate this by transport the feather to an expert at a museum . The fact that these bird have been in secret carrying on their lives unbeknown to us is rightfully incredible .
This extraordinary discovery radically shifts what we thought we knew about the problematic raspberry ’s bionomics . Previously , it was thought that the nighttime parrot only lived in regions blanket with spinifex , a low - lying case of grass that forms a chummy layer on the ground . However , the population go in South Australia seem to be living in an area cover with samphire . This could widen the numeral of environments in which the birds may still be surviving .
