![]() ![]() Is this the year the tawny frogmouth (the runner up of the previous two bird of the year votes) will finally break through to victory? Only time will tell for what has been dubbed the world’s most Instagrammable bird by researchers in 2021. ![]() Thousands of viewers from around the world are enthralled every year by the high-stakes soap opera over the skies of central Melbourne, where a nest cam watches over a pair that lay eggs on a skyscraper ledge annually. Reaching speeds of up to 300km/h when diving after prey, the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on the planet. Their laughter is not for comic effect, but to let other kookaburras know they had better keep out – this turf’s occupied! Much loved in eastern Australia, but considered a pest where it has been introduced into WA and Tasmania. The laughing kookaburra probably make the best-known Australian sound. Photograph: Joe Hidalgo Photgography/Getty Imagesįor my Swifties, everything about the vibrant green Swift parrot is swift – their rapid flight, the way they migrate across the bass strait to visit the winter-flowering eucalyptus woodlands of the mainland and – sadly – their rush towards extinction, due largely to destruction of their habitat by native forest logging. But, just when they’ve been making a comeback thanks to a return in some areas to traditional burning practices, along comes the threat of large-scale fracking in the Top End.Ī close up image of a colourful Gouldian finch. They almost didn’t, due to trapping, disease and inappropriate grazing and fire regimes. It’s hard to imagine how the Gouldian finch (impossibly beautifully little birds) survived in the harsh outback. BirdLife Australia’s annual “Great Cocky Count” shows their numbers are still declining due to clearing from urbanisation, forestry and mining, an indictment on our failing nature laws. Once a familiar site wheeling across Perth’s skyline, these strutting black cockies with their rock-star quiff are in serious trouble. Gorgeous little jewels of birds that feed among the gum trees but nest in tunnels they excavate in sandy ground, they have a sweet but surprisingly loud call that some think sounds as though they’re saying “Miss Piggy”.Ĭarnaby’s black-cockatoo are the rockstars of the bird world. The Spotted pardalote is a tiny little thing. Let’s recap our top ten finalists (with some help from BirdLife Australia’s Sean Dooley): ![]()
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