This ground-dwelling parrot is active at night and lives in grasslands of arid country.
Its plumage is mottled green and yellow-brown, blending into dry grass.
The Night Parrot is a nocturnal parrot of Australia’s arid country. It uses long-unburnt Triodia grass for roosting and breeding, and grassy floodplains and herbfields for feeding. Its low-density populations occur at remote, separated sites, making it difficult to measure how management affects the species.
In a 2023 study, 12 experts estimated the number of roosts after 20 years of management at hypothetical sites. For an intact site, protecting existing habitat together with cat control, fox control and fire management was estimated to add an average of 5.5 long-term stable roosts. The plausible range was −6.1 to 13.6, so the estimate includes both a loss and a gain; it is not a measured population response.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
In the expert estimates, protecting intact habitat together with cat and fox control and tailored fire management offered the greatest 20-year conservation gains. Intensive cat control and fire management also ranked among the most cost-effective strategies. The results describe expected benefits for hypothetical sites, not measured outcomes.