The captive population of Australia’s most unique critically endangered bird has doubled thanks to the help of a feather duster, a heat lamp and a lot of cotton wool
The captive population of Australia’s most unique critically endangered bird has doubled thanks to a plan hatched by Werribee open range zoo in Victoria. Last week, nwithin 24 hours of each other. One of the clutches was hatched in an incubator and raised under the paternal care of a feather duster after one of the fathers, a four-month-old who was daunted at raising his first chicks, stopped sitting on them.
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