News Australia

Dial M for Merger

Fri, 02/09/2011
Members of Birds Australia (BirdLife Partner) and Bird Observation & Conservation Australia (BOCA) recently voted for their merger to create 'BirdLife Australia'.
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Protection for National Parks in Oz

Thu, 01/09/2011
Birds Australia welcome government plans to give greater protection to areas with high biodiversity.
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The eagles have landed (online)

Fri, 29/07/2011
Birds Australia (BirdLife Partner) have launched EagleCAM - a live 24-hour remote video feed brought to you from the Discovery Centre in Sydney...
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Offshore islands yield a seabird surprise

Tue, 28/06/2011
Australasian Seabird Group visit to the Broughton Islands uncovers new treasures.
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Seabirds and rodents on Australia’s outlying...

Tue, 07/06/2011
Birds Australia has identified Macquarie Island as an IBA. Measures to reduce the number of introduced mammals on the island are crucial for seabird conservation...
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Community conservation project wins award in Oz

Mon, 09/05/2011
Birds Australia (BirdLife Partner) has won the 'Natural Environment' category of the Victorian Coastal Awards for its Beach Nesting Birds project, which has recruited local communities and land managers to improve the breeding success of the Near Threatened Hooded Plover.
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Ruddy marvellous! turnstone flies 27,000 km –...

Mon, 31/01/2011
Researchers from the Victorian Wader Study Group - a special interest group of Birds Australia [BirdLife Partner] - have just recaptured a Ruddy Turnstone which has completed a 27,000 km round trip migration for the second time.
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Australia's biodiversity arks

Mon, 06/12/2010
Today Australia’s leading national bird conservation organisation, Birds Australia (BirdLife Partner), has launched its annual State of Australia’s Birds report. This year’s theme, Islands and Birds, provides just a snapshot as more than 8,300 islands occur within Australia’s jurisdiction...
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Hope for Tasmania’s forests

Thu, 04/11/2010
Birds Australia (BirdLife Partner) have just reported that there is a ray of hope for Tasmania’s beleaguered forests and the birds and other creatures that call them home.
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Australian Painted Snipe Surveys

Tue, 05/10/2010
Birds Australia's (BirdLife Partner) Threatened Bird Network has announced that it’s time once again to start looking for Australia’s most rare and cryptic wetland species; the Australian Painted Snipe (APS).
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Birds Fly into the Red

Thu, 03/06/2010
The worst fears of shorebird experts in Australia were realised recently when it became clear that reclamation of the extensive mudflats at Saemangeum in the Yellow Sea had caused alarming declines in populations of migratory waders which use the area as a stopover on their annual pilgrimage to Australia. Without these mudflats, the waders had nowhere to stop over and feed on invertebrates to refuel for their arduous journey.
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Regent Honeyeaters at home in the wild

Thu, 27/05/2010
Thirty-six of the 44 captive-bred Regent Honeyeaters released in the Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park two weeks ago have been confirmed at home in the wild.
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Art and conservation create invisible connections

Wed, 12/05/2010
Atop a step ladder in Melbourne’s City Square (Australia) today internationally acclaimed artist, John Wolseley, will launch Invisible Connections, a book that depicts the dramatic journeys of migratory shorebirds, while putting the finishing touches on his mural, Australia’s largest waterbird scene.
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Regent Honeyeaters released to go wild

Wed, 12/05/2010
Captive-bred Critically Endangered Regent Honeyeaters are being released into the Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park by Birds Australia (BirdLife Partner) as part of a national recovery program to curb the species’ decline.
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The noose tightens: Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo

Wed, 24/03/2010
Birds Australia (BirdLife Partner) was recently offered - and declined t
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