This parrot is the rarest of the rare ~ only about 200 survive. A Recovery Plan has been developed to help the wild population survive. This includes regular population monitoring, the provision of artificial nesting boxes at breeding sites and captive breeding of birds for release. Each year, Adelaide Zoo successfully breeds young for release into the wild group. Along with captive-bred birds from Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria and National Parks in Tasmania, over 80 birds have been released since 1997.... photographed at Adelaide Zoological Gardens, South Australia
Description: Neophema splendida English: An immature female Scarlet-chested Parrot at Gluepot Reserve, South Australia, Australia. Gluepot Reserve, which is a 54,000 hectare property owned by Birds Australia in Mallee country north of Waikerie, formerly a cattle station (read more about Gluepot Reserve). One of the reasons Birds Australia bought this property was to protect this rare species. It is a bird of the arid interior of Australia, and though deemed of Least Concern it is thinly spread and rarely encountered. We were fortunate enough to find a pair of immature birds when they came in to drink at a watering point (which has a bird hide next to it), with a flock of about 70 Mulga Parrots. Date: 26 March 2009, 09:26. Source: Scarlet-chested Parrot (Neophema splendida) Uploaded by Snowmanradio. Author: David Cook Wildlife Photography from Wamboin, NSW, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: English: A group of Rock parrots (Neophema petrophila) at Sandy Cape Recreation Park, Western Australia. Date: 9 September 2021, 16:10:52. Source: Own work. Author: Calistemon. Camera location30° 10′ 56.21″ S, 114° 59′ 58.49″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-30.182281; 114.999581.
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Summary[edit] Description: Flinder's Range National Park, South Australia. Date: 21 October 2009, 09:06. Source: Elegant Parrot (Neophema elegans). Author: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom.
Summary[edit] Description: English: A juvenile rock parrot (orangeish bill) facing camera feeding on grass on Rottnest Island. Date: 17 December 2006, 16:00:31. Source: Own work. Author: Casliber.
Summary[edit] Description: English: A Scarlet-chested Parrot eating grass seeds in Melbourne, Victoria, AU. Melbourne is outside the normal range of this bird, so its suspected that this is an escaped aviary bird. Date: 19 December 2008. Source: Own work. Author: Kauos. Camera location 37° 53′ 07.88″ S, 145° 07′ 53.85″ E: View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth: -37.885523; 145.131626.
Summary[edit] Description: English: A group of Rock parrots (Neophema petrophila) at Sandy Cape Recreation Park, Western Australia. Date: 9 September 2021, 16:10:56. Source: Own work. Author: Calistemon. Camera location30° 10′ 56.21″ S, 114° 59′ 58.49″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-30.182281; 114.999581.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Scarlet-chested Parrot Neophema splendida at the Cincinnati Zoo. Date: 9 January 0005. Source: Own work. Author: Ltshears.