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BirdLife Australia in the media: June

Birdlife Australia
Thursday, 4 July 2024

Find out more about our bird conservation work around the country with our monthly multimedia round-up.

Bird of the month

July bird of the month: Shy Albatross

Birdlife Australia
Sunday, 7 July 2024

Your July bird of the month is the Shy Albatross! Here are 5 things you may or may not know about Australia's only endemic albatross species.

News

BirdLife Australia in the media: June

Birdlife Australia
Thursday, 4 July 2024

Find out more about our bird conservation work around the country with our monthly multimedia round-up.

General

2024 World Seabird Day

Birdlife Australia
Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Today we are celebrating World Seabird Day. Seabirds are one of the world’s most threatened groups of birds, with over half of all species experiencing populati

General

Birds to look out for in July

Birdlife Australia
Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Find out more about birds to look out for around Australia this month

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Critically Endangered Regent Honeyeater sightings spark hope

Birdlife Australia
Monday, 1 July 2024

Our team has found the largest winter flock of Critically Endangered Regent Honeyeaters since 2011.

Australian Birdlife magazine

Funeral Rites

Birdlife Australia
Sunday, 30 June 2024

Once known as the ‘Funeral Cockatoo’, could the Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo be heading towards its own funeral?

Media release

Nature Positive Bills update, June 2024

Birdlife Australia
Friday, 28 June 2024

The government is ploughing ahead with its underwhelming Nature Positive Bills, indicating it will ignore the amendments moved in the House of Representatives

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30 years of the Capertee Valley Tree-planting project

Birdlife Australia
Thursday, 20 June 2024

Since 1994, over 150,000 native trees and shrubs have been planted as part of the Capertee Valley Tree-planting project.

General

2024 Albatross Day

Birdlife Australia
Wednesday, 19 June 2024

19 of the 22 species of albatross in the world can be found in Australian waters, and 15 of these are globally threatened.