Grassland Groupies

Australia

Dunnarts

Dunnarts are amazing mouse-like marsupials with fat tails and big smiles.

turquoise parrot in the grass

Parrots of the Plains

Parrots love grasslands. Not only do some parrots make a living exclusively on the ground in grassland habitats, they’ll hang out in the same palm trees as Burrowing Owls, dig nests into termite mounds, and forage alongside wallabies down in the grass. Let’s talk about the diversity and ecology of grassland parrots.