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Orange-bellied parrot, the Glossary

The orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) is a small parrot endemic to southern Australia, and one of only three species of parrot that migrate.^[1]

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Critically endangered fauna of Australia
Neophema

Adelaide Zoo

Adelaide Zoo is Australia's second oldest zoo (after Melbourne Zoo), and it is operated on a non-profit basis.

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Adventure Bay, Tasmania

Adventure Bay is the name of a locality, a township and a geographical feature on the eastern side of Bruny Island, Tasmania.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Arthur River (Tasmania)

The Arthur River (Peerapper: Tunganrick) is a major perennial river located in the north-west region of Tasmania, Australia.

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Atriplex cinerea

Atriplex cinerea, commonly known as grey saltbush, coast saltbush, barilla or truganini, is a plant species in the family Amaranthaceae.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Aviculture

Aviculture is the practice of keeping and breeding birds, especially of wild birds in captivity.

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Bald Hills Wind Farm

The Bald Hills Wind Farm is an operating wind farm located approximately 10 km south east of Tarwin Lower in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

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Bankstown

Bankstown is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Bass Strait

Bass Strait is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet).

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Bird migration

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.

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Blacktown

Blacktown is a suburb in the City of Blacktown local government area, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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The blue-winged parrot (Neophema chrysostoma), also known as the blue-banded parakeet or blue-banded grass-parakeet, is a small parrot found in Tasmania and southeast mainland Australia. Orange-bellied parrot and blue-winged parrot are birds of Tasmania, endemic birds of Australia and Neophema.

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Canunda National Park

Canunda National Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located about southeast of Adelaide, on the coast about southwest of Millicent.

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Common starling

The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as the European starling in North America and simply as the starling in Great Britain and Ireland, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae.

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Coprosma

Coprosma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.

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Critically Endangered

An IUCN Red List Critically Endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

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Elegant parrot

The elegant parrot (Neophema elegans) is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. Orange-bellied parrot and elegant parrot are endemic birds of Australia and Neophema.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and culturally significant places.

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Eucalyptus nitida

Eucalyptus nitida, commonly known as the Smithton peppermint, is a species of tree or mallee that is endemic to Tasmania.

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Eucalyptus ovata

Eucalyptus ovata, commonly known as swamp gum or black gum, is a small to medium-sized tree species that is endemic to south-eastern Australia.

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Ex situ conservation

Svalbard Global Seed Bank, an ''ex situ'' conservation. Ex situ conservation is the process of protecting an endangered species, variety, or breed of plant or animal outside its natural habitat.

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Fledge

Fledging is the stage in a flying animal's life between hatching or birth and becoming capable of flight.

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Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988

The Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988, also known as the FFG Act, is an act of the Victorian Parliament designed to protect species, genetic material and habitats, to prevent extinction and allow maximum genetic diversity within the Australian state of Victoria for perpetuity.

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Frankenia pauciflora

Frankenia pauciflora, the common sea-heath or southern sea-heath, is an evergreen shrub native to southern Australia.

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French Island National Park

The French Island National Park is a national park located in the Greater Melbourne region of Victoria, Australia.

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Gregory Mathews

Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE FRSE FZS FLS (10 September 1876 – 27 March 1949) was an Australian-born amateur ornithologist who spent most of his later life in England.

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Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus

Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus, commonly known as buttongrass, is a species of tussock-forming sedge from southeastern Australia.

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Halls Gap Zoo

Halls Gap Zoo is a country zoo located about from Halls Gap, Victoria, Australia.

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Healesville Sanctuary

Healesville Sanctuary, formally known as the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary, is a zoo specialising in native Australian animals.

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International Ornithologists' Union

The International Ornithologists' Union (IOU) is an international organization for the promotion of ornithology.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Iris (anatomy)

The iris (irides or irises) is a thin, annular structure in the eye in most mammals and birds, responsible for controlling the diameter and size of the pupil, and thus the amount of light reaching the retina.

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IUCN Red List

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.

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Jeff Kennett

Jeffrey Gibb Kennett (born 2 March 1948) is a former Australian politician who served as the 43rd Premier of Victoria between 1992 and 1999, Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party from 1982 to 1989 and from 1991 to 1999, and the Member for Burwood from 1976 to 1999.

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John Gould

John Gould (14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart.

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John Latham (ornithologist)

John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author.

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Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.

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Kelp

Kelps are large brown algae or seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales.

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King Island (Tasmania)

King Island is an island in the Bass Strait, belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania.

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Lake Connewarre State Wildlife Reserve

Lake Connewarre State Wildlife Reserve (LCSWR) is a 3411.1 ha Park in Victoria, Australia, that contains a diverse range of unique and significant ecosystems including a river, tidal delta, lakes, swamps, salt marshes and grasslands.

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Lake Flannigan

Lake Flannigan is a natural freshwater lake on King Island, Tasmania, Australia, situated south of the Cape Wickham Lighthouse, in the northern locality of Wickham.

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Lake Victoria (Victoria)

Lake Victoria is a shallow saline lake on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria in Australia, close to the township of Point Lonsdale and part of the Lonsdale Lakes Nature Reserve administered by Parks Victoria.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Malabar, New South Wales

Malabar is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 12 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Randwick.

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Mitochondrial DNA

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

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Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Park

Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Park is a biopark within the Pearcedale Conservation Park located at Pearcedale on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne, Australia.

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Moulting

In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle.

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Mud Islands

The Mud Islands reserve is located within Port Phillip, about south-west of Melbourne, Australia, lying inside Port Phillip Heads, north of Portsea and east of Queenscliff.

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Neophema

The genus Neophema is an Australian genus with six or seven species.

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Nidifugous and nidicolous organisms

In biology, nidifugous organisms are those that leave the nest shortly after hatching or birth.

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Pacific Conservation Biology

Pacific Conservation Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by CSIRO Publishing and dedicated to conservation and wildlife management in the Pacific region.

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Parrot

Parrots (Psittaciformes), also known as psittacines, are birds with a strong curved beak, upright stance, and clawed feet.

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Pearcedale, Victoria

Pearcedale is a township and coastal rural locality in Victoria, Australia, 49 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Casey and the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government areas.

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Penshurst, New South Wales

Penshurst is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Point Wilson, Victoria

Point Wilson is a locality located on the northern shores of Corio Bay, Victoria.

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Port Fairy

Port Fairy (historically known as Belfast) is a coastal town in south-western Victoria, Australia.

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Port MacDonnell, South Australia

Port MacDonnell, originally known as NgarangaChristina Smith,, Spiller, 1880 is the southernmost town in South Australia.

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Port Phillip

Port Phillip (Kulin: Narm-Narm) or Port Phillip Bay is a horsehead-shaped enclosed bay on the central coast of southern Victoria, Australia.

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Precociality and altriciality

Precocial species in birds and mammals are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching.

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Psittacine beak and feather disease

Psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) is a viral disease affecting all Old World and New World parrots.

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Riverstone, New South Wales

Riverstone is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Robert Hill (Australian politician)

Robert Murray Hill (born 25 September 1946) is a retired Australian politician.

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Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

The Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), now part of BirdLife Australia, was Australia's largest non-government, non-profit, bird conservation organisation.

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Salicornia quinqueflora

Salicornia quinqueflora, synonym Sarcocornia quinqueflora, commonly known as beaded samphire, bead weed, beaded glasswort or glasswort, is a species of succulent halophytic coastal shrub.

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Salt marsh

A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.

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Second voyage of James Cook

The second voyage of James Cook, from 1772 to 1775, commissioned by the British government with advice from the Royal Society, was designed to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible to finally determine whether there was any great southern landmass, or Terra Australis.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.

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South West Tasmania

South West Tasmania is a region in Tasmania that has evoked curiosity and wonder during the period of European presence on the island.

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Species translocation

Translocation is the human action of moving an organism from one area and releasing it in another.

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Spit Nature Conservation Reserve

The Spit Nature Conservation Reserve is a 3-kilometer nature reserve on the north-western shore of Port Phillip, a large bay in Victoria, Australia.

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Suaeda australis

Suaeda australis, the austral seablite, is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Australia.

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Swan Bay

The Swan Bay is a shallow, marine embayment at the eastern end of the Bellarine Peninsula in Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia.

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Swan Island (Victoria)

Swan Island (Wathaurong: Woorang-a'look) is a 1.4 km2 sand barrier island which, with Duck Island and the Edwards Point spit, separate Swan Bay from Port Phillip in Victoria, Australia.

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Swift parrot

The swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) is a species of broad-tailed parrot, found only in southeastern Australia. Orange-bellied parrot and swift parrot are birds described in 1790, birds of Tasmania and endemic birds of Australia.

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Taroona

Taroona is a major residential suburb approximately 15 minutes drive from the centre of Hobart, Tasmania on the scenic route between Hobart and Kingston.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.

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Tecticornia arbuscula

Tecticornia arbuscula, the shrubby glasswort or scrubby samphire, is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Australia.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.

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Third voyage of James Cook

James Cook's third and final voyage (12 July 1776 – 4 October 1780) took the route from Plymouth via Tenerife and Cape Town to New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands, and along the North American coast to the Bering Strait.

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Tommaso Salvadori

Count Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti (30 September 1835 – 9 October 1923) was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist.

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Type (biology)

In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.

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Western Port

Western Port, (Boonwurrung: Warn Marin) commonly but unofficially known as Western Port Bay, is a large tidal bay in southern Victoria, Australia, opening into Bass Strait.

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Western Treatment Plant

The Western Treatment Plant (formerly the Metropolitan Sewage Farm or, more commonly, the Werribee Sewage Farm) is a sewage treatment plant in Cocoroc, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's central business district, on the coast of Port Phillip Bay.

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Wildfire

A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.

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Woolnorth Wind Farm

Woolnorth Wind Farm is a wind power complex, comprising two wind farms — Bluff Point and Studland Bay.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange-bellied_parrot

Also known as Neophema chrysogaster.

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Orange-bellied parrot, the Glossary

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See also

Critically endangered fauna of Australia

Neophema

References