Lost, then found, then lost again: can we learn from the extinction of the paradise parrot? | Queensland

Exactly 100 years ago on Saturday, a bird that had been relegated to extinction made a comeback. The exquisitely beautiful paradise parrot was rediscovered by Cyril Jerrard, a grazier from Gayndah in Queensland’s Burnett district, on 11 December 1921.

But its return was fleeting. Scattered…