Pity the poor Swift Parrot, a beautiful nectar-eating parrot that breeds only in Tasmania and migrates to the mainland in winter. The old-growth forests where it nests along the Tasmanian coast, with hollow trees and flowering bluegums, are being destroyed by logging. In NSW the coastal forests on which it increasingly depends for winter feeding are also being logged. Already classified as ‘endangered’, with fewer than 1000 breeding pairs remaining, the Swift Parrot is very likely critically endangered and heading for extinction while state and federal governments refuse to act.
January 2009: Swift Parrot Update 1.
October 2008: The Swift Parrot in Tasmania: its Conservation Status and the Impact of Logging on its Breeding Habitat.