Updated 30
Apr 2019, 4:37am
Wildlife
experts in Tasmania will attempt to trap two critically endangered parrots that
have been spotted in a backyard well off their migratory course in the state's
far south.
It is the
end of the breeding season for orange-bellied parrots, and by this point the
birds should be somewhere between Melaleuca and mainland Australia.
But a
captive-bred male and wild-born female — both are fitted with leg bands for
identification — were sighted in Cockle Creek, happily grazing on a backyard
lawn.
Ornithologist
Mark Holdsworth told ABC
Radio Hobart it was concerning because the birds were
more than 60 kilometres off course.
"While
this is an interesting sighting, their chances of survival are very low and it
will be almost impossible to track them when they leave this site," he
said.
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