SAVING KYLORING STORIES
An initiative for school children in Western Australia
(Years 4 - 6 and Years 7 - 9)
A project supported and facilitated
by the Friends of the Western Ground Parrot,
an organisation dedicated to saving Western Australia's rarest bird.
WHO IS KYLORING?
Its English name is Western Ground Parrot.
Kyloring is its Noongar name.
Its scientific name is Pezoporus flaviventris.
It is Western Australia’s rarest bird.
Less than 150 individuals are thought to be left in the whole world.
It is critically endangered.
A bird at extreme risk of becoming extinct.
Kyloring is also the beneficiary of Australia's official gift to mark the coronation of King Charles.
Few people have ever seen Kyloring and most people have never even heard about this beautiful parrot which lives in remote heathlands on the South Coast of Western Australia. We would like more people to get to know this very rare and endangered bird. This is the reason why we have created this project.
Information for School Teachers
We wish to acknowledge the Noongar people, the traditional owners of the land we live on and where Kyloring is found.
This initiative is also supported by
Albany & Surrounds Feral Cat Working Group, BirdLife Western Australia, Oyster Harbour Catchment Group, State Natural Resource Management Program, Jane Goodall Institute's Roots and Shoots program as well as literary specialist and volunteer community environmental educator Caralyn Lagrange.
