Rob Blakers - Southern Forests - Swift Parrot Habitat Wild Island First light on dolerite boulders

First light on dolerite boulders and alpine gardens at the summit of Hobart’s kunanyi/Mt Wellington

featuring the original Lake Pedder

Vigorously social birds

Protection of all Swift Parrot habitat nationally is a critically urgent response to the biodiversity and climate crises - and is the slender life-line to the future for this extraordinary and beautiful bird

Rob Blakers - Southern Forests - Swift Parrot Habitat Wild Island First light on dolerite bouldersSwift Parrot Habitat, Southern Forests Rob Blakers photograph on Phototex 120cm wide All of the Swift Parrots in this exhibition were photographed within or immediately adjacent to areas proposed for logging in 2023 or 2024. The aptly named Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) is a small, streamlined parrot, one of just three migratory parrots in the world, along with the Orange bellied Parrot and the Blue winged Parrot. Of the parrot species it has the