In partnership with BirdLife Australia,
Guardian Australia has launched its annual Australian bird of the year poll to
ask readers to nominate their favourite bird and encourage others to do the
same
Monday 20 November
2017 02.54 GMTLast modified on Monday 20 November
2017 03.13 GMT
This week Guardian Australia and
BirdLife Australia are asking readers to cast
their vote on their favourite native bird. From the gregarious
sulphur-crested cockatoo to the ubiquitous bright lorikeet, it’s time to
recognise our country’s wealth of amazing native birds.
The poll aims
to celebrate the uniqueness of Australian birdlife and raise awareness of the
threats facing many of the birds on the list, including climate change, habitat
loss, land-clearing and feral animal predators.
Today BirdLife Australia’s
magazine editor and author of the Big Twitch, Sean
Dooley, provides us with an essay on the relationship Australians have with our
unique birdlife from the brightest of our parrots right down
to the much maligned ibis, or “bin chicken” as it has become known.
Guardian Australia’s environment
reporter, Michael
Slezak, provides us with a breakdown of the pecking order: can the
willie wagtail – bird of the year 1908 – claw its way back to the top in 2017?
Or will the superb fairy-wren take flight and wing it again as it did in
a 2013
BirdLife Australia poll?
The winner of the Australian bird
the year competition will be announced on 9 December 2017.
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