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Bar-tailed Godwit breaks record

Birdlife Australia
Saturday, 3 December 2022

Another record-breaking, non-stop flight by a Bar-tailed Godwit.

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A Whipbird has been rediscovered in Victoria

Birdlife Australia
Tuesday, 22 November 2022

A subspecies of Western Whipbird, known as the Mallee or White-bellied Whipbird, has been rediscovered in Victoria for the first time in decades.

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Volunteer stories: John Saw

Birdlife Australia
Saturday, 1 October 2022

John Saw, a Birds on Farms volunteer, has been surveying and watching birds for years, recently reaching 600 different species.

Australian Birdlife magazine

Paradigm Swift

Birdlife Australia
Wednesday, 2 March 2022

BirdLife Australia’s Beau Meney introduces Swift Parrot Search, a new monitoring approach that will help us keep tabs on this highly threatened species.