Tragically, very few of these beautiful birds now remain – the estimated wild population is just 100 mature individuals. Over 80% of the Kyloring population has been lost to severe fires since 2009. Their population is rapidly declining and they are at risk of disappearing forever.
The Kyloring’s future is hanging by a thread – but it’s not too late to save them.
While we often associate birds with flight, not all birds favour the skies…
For Western Ground Parrots, also known as Kyloring in the local Noongar language, the ground is their sanctuary. But without immediate action, these unique birds won’t be around for much longer.
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The Critically Endangered Kyloring’s population is rapidly declining. Over 80% of their population has been lost to severe fires since 2009.
Only 100 mature individuals are estimated to remain in the wild. Just one large-scale fire could be catastrophic for the last Kyloring. They need help urgently.
In 2015, fires destroyed 90% of their precious heathland habitat. The birds who escaped were still recovering when they lost a further 40% of their remaining home to fires in 2020.
Today, they are confined to one remnant population and a second small translocated population in Western Australia. And as climate change worsens, the risk of more frequent and more severe fires increases… Can you help?
The Kyloring’s future is hanging by a thread, but it’s not too late to save critically endangered birds like these. Please donate today.
With your generosity today, we can keep working with our incredible partners, including Western Australia’s Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA), and the Friends of the Western Ground Parrot, South Coast NRM, and the Australian Government, to save these fascinating birds.
Your donation can help support wild-to-wild translocations of individual Kyloring, to establish additional populations in areas of suitable habitat. This is critical for their survival. If a disastrous fire decimates one area of habitat in the future and wipes out the local population of Kyloring there, the species will be able to survive in another area.
Bringing highly threatened species like Kyloring back from the brink of extinction is an extraordinary challenge. But it’s possible – and that’s because of bird–lovers like you.
Can our endangered birds count on you today? Please donate now to protect their future.
Index image: Kyloring © Alan Danks, Kyloring fitted with transmitter flies free to a new home. Other photos, left to right: Kyloring © Alan Danks, Kyloring © Alan Danks, fire is a key threat for Kyloring © Duncan MacKenzie, Kyloring © Alan Danks. Below: Kyloring © Brent Barrett/DBCA, WA.
so at-risk birds are safer from future large-scale fires and habitat loss.
for critical monitoring of these cryptic birds, to better understand and protect them
to help safeguard Kyloring into the future
The 'Critically Endangered' Western Ground Parrot or Kyloring is relatively small and elusive, restricted to coastal heathland in southern Western Australia.
