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A high-flying visitor – the wondrous far eastern curlew – faces fresh threat in NT wetlands haven

Guardian Australia is highlighting the plight of our endangered native species during an election campaign that is ignoring broken environment laws and rapidly declining ecosystems

The Guardian - AU

Rainbow lorikeet is our most commonly spotted bird, Australia’s largest citizen science event finds

About 57,000 people participated in the Aussie Bird Count, with the lorikeet joining the noisy miner and magpie in the top three spots

The Guardian - AU

‘It’s gang-gang country’: the landholders restoring farmland to forest in the Victorian alps

Karst Kreun is planting 90,000 native trees on a Mansfield property to restore the land ‘as close as I can to what it was 200 years ago’

The Guardian - AU

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High-flying life of Australia’s birds revealed in new detail – thanks to weather radars

Researchers gain deeper understanding of bird migration in study that could have ‘profound’ implications for windfarms

The Guardian - AU

‘I felt like a bird god’: why comedian Geraldine Hickey is excited for this year’s Aussie Bird Count

The keen birdwatcher encourages others to take 20 minutes out of their day, describing the experience as ‘meditative’

The Guardian - AU

Protecting private land to save the plains-wanderer, a bird ‘teetering on the edge of extinction’

With an estimated wild population of just 250, they may be Australia’s rarest bird and most of their remaining habitat is on farmland

The Guardian - AU

‘Not the only birder in the village’: how citizen science is the bedrock of tackling species loss

Birdwatching may have started out as a hobby, but active volunteers are helping bridge data gaps of threatened species and reaping real world outcomes as they go

The Guardian - AU

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Irish woman shot dead in New York was denied justice, funeral hears

Denise Morgan was found dead alongside the body of her partner Joed Taveras who had a gun beside him.

The Independent UK

Swift parrot named 2023 Australian bird of the year winner

Critically endangered parrot narrowly pips the tawny frogmouth, runner-up for the third time in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

The Guardian - AU

From bin chickens to gang-gangs: Australian bird of the year is a celebration and a call to action

Guardian Australia’s biennial poll is a chance to show your love for your favourite feathered friend and raise awareness of those at risk

The Guardian - AU

Bird of the year 2023: six underbirds that deserve your vote

Some of Australia’s most recognised feathered denizens have been flying under the popularity radar for far too long

The Guardian - AU

What’s in a name? The renaming of the pink cockatoo is no small thing in Australia’s violent history

This beautiful bird’s former name represented colonial dominance – and told us nothing about the species

The Guardian - AU

Australian bird of the year 2023: nominate your favourite for the shortlist

Who will take the crown this year? That will be for you to decide

The Guardian - AU

Seagulls are declining in birdwatching surveys — have we hit 'peak gull' or are they hiding in plain sight?

Numbers of super smart seagulls are declining in Australia's largest citizen science project but researchers aren't sure if we've hit "peak gull" or the birds are outsmarting the survey.

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Australia’s coronation gift to King Charles is $10,000 donation for WA endangered parrot

PM says he is pleased to contribute to Friends of the Western Ground Parrot as the king ‘has long championed conservation’

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WTF: Nine More Australian Birds Have Been Added To The Threatened Species List And We’re So Fucked

"It's going to get worse before it gets better."

ABC News

How Flinders Island residents developed a taste for mutton bird, or shearwaters, a meat that tastes like a mix of seafood and chicken

Eating mutton bird is part of a long culture in the Furneaux Island group. While the rest of Australia is enjoying the short-tailed shearwater with binoculars, island dwellers are getting out their knives and forks.

The Guardian - AU

Superb fairywrens more likely to help family members in distress than strangers, like humans

Beloved Australian songbird will risk life and limb for its breeding group but ignore cries for help from unfamiliar birds, scientists say

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Musk duck found in Central Australia for first time probably lost

A species of duck that has not been seen in Central Australia for more than 120 years turns up at the Alice Springs sewage ponds.

The Guardian - AU

More than 350 birds found dead at Victorian nature reserve as authorities investigate cause

Parks Victoria has taken samples for testing, with an expert suggesting the source could be avian botulism

The Guardian - AU

Unusual sightings of ‘devil bird’ across Melbourne raise migration mysteries for researchers

Increase in reports of the koel and its loud mating call south of its usual territory may be attributable to climate change, scientists say

The Guardian - AU

‘A bit horrifying’: the Melbourne cockatoo dropping pot plants from four storeys up

Footage of the barrage has been watched 1.5m times, with one expert saying the bird might have been simply being playful

The Guardian - AU

‘Devil bird’: why the midnight cooee calls of the koel are driving Australians ‘insane’ this year

The night calls that are said to herald the Australian summer have continued later than usual. Here’s why

The Guardian - AU

Is Australia’s growing love of Halloween endangering our wildlife?

According to an online warning, decorations such as fake spiderweb ‘take a terrible toll’ on birds. We ask the experts how big a problem it is

The Guardian - AU

Bar-tailed godwit sets world record with 13,560km continuous flight from Alaska to southern Australia

Satellite tag data suggests five-month-old migratory bird did not stop during voyage which took 11 days and one hour to reach Tasmania

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