Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shutterstock Up to 216 Australian birds are now threatened – compared with 195 a decade ago – and climate change is now the main ...

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Specialized "PieProof" helmets that protect ears and faces have also become popular during swooping season. Media reports have cited injuries, event cancellations due to swooping-risks and accidents ...

Specialized "PieProof" helmets that protect ears and faces have also become popular during swooping season. Media reports have cited injuries, event cancellations due to swooping-risks and accidents ...

Few Australian birds have inspired as much awe, speculation and myth as the night parrot. Thought lost for more than a century, it’s one of the world’s great biological enigmas; a parrot that lives ...