'Exceptionally rare' parrot hatches at Perth Zoo

Name: 'Exceptionally rare' parrot hatches at Perth Zoo
Uploaded: 2026-01-07T03:30:46+00:00
Duration: 1 min 19 s
Channel: Australian Community Media
Description: The species is exceptionally rare and close to extinction, with only an estimated 100-150 individuals left in the wild globally. A small group of the birds was brought into Perth Zoo to begin the conservation effort in 2014, but this is the first successful hatchling in the conservation program in more than a decade.

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The species is exceptionally rare and close to extinction, with only an estimated 100-150 individuals left in the wild globally. A small group of the birds was brought into Perth Zoo to begin the conservation effort in 2014, but this is the first successful hatchling in the conservation program in more than a decade.

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00:00Perth Zoo celebrated the arrival of its first Western Ground Parrot Chick in its conservation program.

00:06The species is exceptionally rare and close to extinction, with only an estimated hundred or so individuals left in the wild globally.

00:15A tiny remaining population of the wild birds survives in the remote coastal heathlands of southern Western Australia,

00:22within the Cape Arad National Park and adjacent Noit's Land Nature Reserve.

00:27A small group of the birds was brought into Perth Zoo to begin the conservation effort in 2014,

00:34and additional individual birds have since been added to the zoo population.

00:39The latest successful hatchling was born to mating pairs brought into the zoo between 2018 and 2022.

00:48Zoo staff deliberately took a hands-off approach to raising the birds in order to observe their near-wild behaviours.

00:55As a result of this, the precise hatch date of the chick is unknown, but was likely between November 30th and December 1st, 2025.

01:05It was first seen on the zoo's hatchling surveillance cameras when it ventured out of the nest at around 20 days old.

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