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New hope as orange-bellied parrot possibly sighted in old habitat
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A sighting of the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot has been reported in an area where the bird has not been seen for nearly two decades.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, environment, birds, animal-science, science-and-technology, millicent-5280, sa
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Cruel twist of fate killing the common boobook owl
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Household rat poison is being blamed for the demise of the common boobook owl population, which is ironic because this raptor is a natural predator of vermin.
Topics: animals, birds, endangered-and-protected-species, animal-science, human-interest, perth-6000
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Rare wren proves to be a little fire fighter after surviving blaze
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A survey of a remote, rocky habitat full of spinifex grass in South Australia has found a rare bird still lives in the area, despite fears it could have been wiped out in a fire in 2011.
Topics: birds, ecology, conservation, land-management, bushfire, minnipa-5654, port-pirie-5540, flinders-park-5025, gawler-5118
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A Big Country: Finding and protecting little terns Audio
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Volunteers at Jimmy's Beach on the mid coast of New South Wales are looking for little tern nests on the sand dunes. The eggs are hard to see as they're well camouflaged amongst the sand and shells. Read more
Topics: birds, endangered-and-protected-species, rural-tourism, volunteers, tea-gardens-2324
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Three turkeys who survived Thanksgiving Day image
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Topics: birds, food-and-cooking, united-states
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Little tern egg found at Jimmy's Beach image
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Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, environment, erosion, community-education, community-development, community-organisations, community-and-society, human-interest, birds, animal-science, tea-gardens-2324
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Little tern protection on Jimmy's Beach image
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Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, environment, birds, animal-science, community-education, community-organisations, community-development, human-interest, erosion, tea-gardens-2324
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Neil Fraser monitoring Littler Terns in Winda Woppa reserve image
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Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, environment, birds, animal-science, community-organisations, community-education, community-development, erosion, tea-gardens-2324
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Fancy feather physics help pigeons sound the alarm
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When a pigeon takes off rapidly, it produces a shrill whistle that acts as a warning for other birds. The noise is created by just two feathers — one on each wing.
Topics: science-and-technology, research, zoology, physics, evolution, biology, birds, animal-behaviour, australia
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Nest removed image
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Topics: birds, darwin-0800
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Osprey feeding image
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Topics: birds, darwin-0800
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Will Riddell image
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Osprey hero image
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Tower watch image
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Osprey nest removal ruffles feathers of Darwin birdwatchers
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Environmentalists are concerned the removal of two osprey nests might drive the urban osprey population out of Darwin.
Topics: animals, conservation, birds, ecology, darwin-0800
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Bunyip bird draws interest from birdwatchers
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Researchers and volunteers are being drawn in by the mystery of Australasian bitterns, also known as 'bunyip birds'.
Topics: animal-science, birds, conservation, environment, endangered-and-protected-species, sa, naracoorte-5271, nsw
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Swans and ducks find water in Longreach image
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Topics: environment, animal-science, birds, rural, drought
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Pelicans find water in drought image
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Topics: animal-science, birds, drought, rural
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Water birds bring life to oasis in parched outback
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A western Queensland grazier's dam is inundated by water birds.
Topics: rural, drought, environment, animal-science, animal-behaviour, birds, longreach-4730
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Carpentarian Grasswren image
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Topics: birds, environmental-management, cairns-4870
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Colour of feathered dinosaur has palaeontologists in a flap
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A small feathered dinosaur sported a stripy tail, "bandit mask" across its eyes and a pale belly to help it blend into the background, scientists suggest.
Topics: science-and-technology, research, zoology, biology, reptiles, birds, rain-forests-and-forest, palaeontology, animals, dinosaurs, fossils
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Pink and grey nomad tours Australia
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Pinky the galah racks up more than 16,000 kilometres travelling around Australia.
Topics: animals, birds, travel-and-tourism, broome-6725
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Piercing call makes koel a bird northern Australians love or hate
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Many northern Australians have colourful memories of the koel, with the bird's distinctive and haunting mating cry echoing through rural and suburban neighbourhoods each spring.
Topics: birds, community-and-society, regional, port-macquarie-2444
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Have you seen the bin chicken's better-looking cousin?
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If you've seen the the straw-necked ibis, scientists at the CSIRO want to know so they can attach GPS trackers to the birds later this year.
Topics: science-and-technology, birds, animals, sydney-2000, nsw
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'It was an epiphany': Composer weaves birdsong into music for Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
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Field recordings of pied butcherbirds will be incorporated into a new piece for one of the nation's most pretigious orchestras, the result of months of work in which the composer travelled the NT and far north Queensland to record the "world's finest songbird" in nature.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, orchestral, birds, alice-springs-0870, nt, adelaide-5000, sa
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