Rio the Quaker parrot was a tiny ball of blue feathers when Queenslander Bea brought her home six years ago. They've been inseparable ever since and Bea refused to leave Rio behind when she moved ...

Rio Tinto has adjusted its plans for Australia’s next big copper-gold mine after the shock discovery of one of the world’s rarest birds: the night parrot. The night parrot, feared extinct for ...

Now, she’s brought her fine play in the W to Rio with the Olympic team. Bird’s spry play at point guard has been a catalyst behind the United States’ back-to-back 100-point outbursts to ...

Rio has cut all identified night parrot habitat from the project’s development envelope to minimise any possibility of disturbing the critically endangered bird. The call of a lone night parrot ...