New threat to endangered parrot.

The life of the endangered swift parrot has just got a whole lot harder with the discovery they are being eaten by "introduced" sugar gliders.

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Endangered parrots spotted by the thousand on South Coast

Swift parrot picture courtesy Chris Tzaros.VOLUNTEERS conducting bi-annual swift parrot surveys are aflutter after discovering a 1000-strong flock in the Bodalla State Forest near Moruya, on the New South Wales South Coast.

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PETA offers reward for bird beheaders

A swift parrot photographed on Bruny Island. (Wikimedia Commons File/JJ Harrison/HO)Animal rights group PETA has offered a $1,000 reward to help catch the intruders who decapitated birds and released other animals, some of them rare, at a zoo in Australia.

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Endangered parrots picky about hollows

Dejan Stojanovic and a baby Swift parrotEMILY BOURKE: The endangered swift parrot lives in south-east Australia, but the species only breeds in Tasmania. A scientist who's spending his summer climbing trees to study the parrots has found that the birds will only nest in particular hollows.

Felicity Ogilvie reports from Bruny Island.

FELICITY OGILVIE: The endangered Swift Parrots have made their nest in the hollow of a dead tree in a forest on Bruny Island. The nest is 18 metres off the ground and there's a chick inside.

(Sound of chick cry)

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Treetop research to help protect swift parrots

ANU researcher Dejan Stojanovic is fitting tracking devices to adult swift parrots to see how wide they range for food. ABC Fiona, BlackwoodIt is feared habitat loss across eastern Australia is putting even greater pressure on swift parrot, a bird already on the brink.

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