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Orange-bellied parrot deaths

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Rosslyn Beeby Canberra Times

They’re one of the world’s rarest parrots, with fewer than 180 wild birds surviving along a narrow coastal strip of south-west Tasmania. … Just a few months before this political stand-off over hypothetical wind farm fatalities, 45 orange-bellied parrot chicks died at a captive breeding aviary at the Taroona wildlife research centre on the
outskirts of Hobart.

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