It's a common story throughout the world: when people turn up we tend to kill things, with many animals being driven to extinction. So join me today as we do a review of the Australian birds that have gone extinct since European colonisation. But would you be shocked if I told you there was only one? It's true, the Paradise Parrot is the only Australian bird that has gone extinct. So let's find out who they were, what happened, and if we can stop their close cousin from going the same way.
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Notes:
- Paradise Parrot: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=723
- Red-Rumped Parrot: https://ebird.org/species/rerpar1?siteLanguage=en_AU
- Hooded Parrot: https://ebird.org/species/hoopar1?siteLanguage=en_AU
- Golden Shouldered Parrot: https://ebird.org/species/gospar1?siteLanguage=en_AU
- John Gilbert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilbert_(naturalist)
- John Gould: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gould
- Gilbert's Whistler: https://ebird.org/species/gilwhi1?siteLanguage=en_AU
- Gilbert's Honeyeater: https://ebird.org/species/whnhon3?siteLanguage=en_AU
- Gilbert's Potoroo: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1733312/episodes/new
- Gilbert's Dunnart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%27s_dunnart
- Alec Chisholm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hugh_Chisholm
- Story of the Paradise Parrot: https://theconversation.com/100-years-ago-this-man-discovered-an-exquisite-parrot-thought-to-be-extinct-what-came-next-is-a-tragedy-we-must-not-repeat-171939