Sons come before daughters in the world of a swift parrot

Steve Evans
May 10 2021 - 5:00am
A swift parrot.
A swift parrot.

Call it sexist if you like but a type of threatened parrot has started favouring male offspring at the expense of female chicks as its environment changes.

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Steve Evans

Steve Evans

Reporter

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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