Lord Howe Parakeet (Cyanoramphus subflavescens)
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Lord Howe Parakeet (Cyanoramphus subflavescens)

You gaze up into the canopy of palms and dense rainforest vegetation, hoping to spot one of the rarest birds on the planet. There, amongst the leaves, you see a flash of brilliant green and yellow. It’s a Lord Howe Parakeet, soaring through its remote island home located 380 miles off Australia’s mainland coast. Endemic…