Eastern Ground Parrot Badge (2023)
$7.00Eastern Ground Parrot (2023)
The Eastern Ground Parrot (Pezoporus wallicus) was chosen in 2023 in recognition of the United Nations International Year of Millets.
Millets are incredible plants that are drought tolerant, encourage healthy soil biota and microbes and provides habitat for the Eastern Ground Parrot. This secretive little parrot inhabits south-eastern Australia from southern Queensland through NSW to western Victoria. It also previously lived in South Australia but has not been recorded since 1945. Across Australia populations have declined due to habitat destruction through fires and land clearing, and predation by foxes and cats. In Victoria it was listed as endangered in 2020 and is considered in significant decline. It’s now contracted to islands of coastal or sub coastal heathland and sedge land habitats.
The Eastern Ground Parrot is one of only five ground-dwelling parrots in the world. The others being the western ground parrot, extremely rare Night Parrot, the Antipodes parakeet, and the highly endangered Kakapo from New Zealand.
Other badges include:
- Green and Gold Bell Frog Badge (2000)
- Whale (2002)
- Dolphins (2004)
- Sugarglider (2005)
- Koala (2006)
- Wombat (2007)
- Saltwater Crocodile (2010)
- Orchid (2011)
- Brolga (2012)
- Leadbeater’s Possum (2013)
- Seastar (2014)
- Tiger Quoll (2016)
- Swift Parrot (2017)
- Leaf Tail Gecco (2018)
- Fairy Wren (2019)
- Crimson Rosella in Golden Wattle Tree (2020)
- Cassowary (2021)
- Weedy Seadragon (2022)
- Eastern Ground Parrot (2023)
- Yellow Footed Rock Wallaby (2024)
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