Swift parrot sightings in Port Macquarie-Hastings encouraging for critically endangered species

Tracey Fairhurst
June 7 2021 - 8:00pm
Nectar feeding parrot: A Swift Parrot in forest red gum at Port Macquarie in June 2018. Photo: Liam Murphy.
Nectar feeding parrot: A Swift Parrot in forest red gum at Port Macquarie in June 2018. Photo: Liam Murphy.

BIRDWATCHERS are on the lookout for a rare flock of critically endangered swift parrots that have made a neighbourhood in Port Macquarie a temporary feeding ground.

Tracey Fairhurst

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