Running half marathon for endangered parrots

Updated April 21 2015 - 2:44pm, first published 12:00am
Lindsey Gray examines Kakapo specimens at the University of Sydney's Macleay Museum.
Lindsey Gray examines Kakapo specimens at the University of Sydney's Macleay Museum.

Springwood biologist Lindsey Gray was recently awarded $10,000 by the University of Sydney's Macleay Museum to study kakapo, a critically endangered New Zealand parrot. As the 2015 Macleay Miklouho-Maclay Fellow, Dr Gray will be using DNA extracted from the Macleay Museum's 150-year-old kakapo specimens to help conservationists in New Zealand better understand how inbred the tiny modern population of parrots is compared to historical populations.

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