Snipers, recorders – and secrets: Saving the Aussie parrot called ‘birdwatching’s Holy Grail’
Behind the wheel is Nick Leseberg, an ecologist, who drives at a slow but steady pace with keen eyes that miss little in the ...
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Second-Ever Elusive Night Parrot Egg Discovered in Australia Where it Had Been ‘Extinct’ for 100 Years
The night parrot is one of the great natural enigmas left in the world: a parrot that flies but lives in burrows and that's ...
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Ancient relative of geese is the earliest known modern bird
A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and ...
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Avian flu detected at poultry farm in northern Vic
An egg farm at Euroa in northern Vic has been quarantined following the detection of avian influenza...Read More ...
'Most complex wildlife emergency ever': The Australian species at high risk of bird flu
Avian influenza first emerged in 1996 but since 2020, the number of outbreaks in birds has grown exponentially, alongside an ...
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Snipers, recorders – and secrets: Saving the Aussie parrot called ‘birdwatching’s Holy Grail’
We’re here in the hope of seeing the night parrot, the most mysterious of Australian birds. The night parrot was first recorded by Western observers in 1845, when a member of Charles Sturt’s ...