Some of Australia’s most recognised feathered denizens have been flying under the popularity radar for far too long
Lisa FavazzoIs there anything more thrilling than seeing an underbird soar? Keep that in mind when casting your vote in this year’s Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year poll.
The ibis isn’t native to Sydney and moved in as a result of humans messing with natural water systems, Dooley says. “They were resourceful enough to find a new food source. We should be celebrating [them] rather than recoiling in disgust.”Emus are prehistoric and feature on our national coat of arms, yet every year, this big bird struggles.
And let’s not forget the great emu war of 1932, when the Australian army sent troops to a small town in WA to fight a group of emus that were supposedly causing a nuisance.Dooley describes this water bird as an “intellectual contributor to the Australian philosophical canon”. Yet it hasn’t broken out of the bottom 10 since 2017.
When casting your vote, remember that the swift parrot’s centuries-old breeding and feeding trees are being felled – often to produce pulp wood. For some Sydneysiders at least, Dooley says, the year’s first nights filled with the eastern koels’ love cry isn’t obnoxious at all. It’s a sign of the “hot, steamy summer nights to come”.aren’t usually big vote pullers. The weebill is Australia’s smallest bird, has mousy grey-brown feathers and subsists mostly on small insects.
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