The Bird Emergency

World Penguin Day has ambushed me! Truth be know, I did not even know it existed! Luckily when I saw some Twitter talk about it, I had an episode just about ready to go! Please enjoy hearing Dr Ursula Ellenberg, from the Tawaki Project tell me about the marvellous penguin, the Tawaki, or as we know it in Australia, the Fiordland Penguin.

Tawaki is one of the crested penguins, that are found in the sub-antarctic zone, and the vulnerable Tawaki is found in the southernmost parts of the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.

It seems very fitting that we release this episode on ANZAC Day, a very significant day in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, which is also the day we think about the penguins of the world.

Here is the story of the origin of World Penguin Day. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-penguin-day/

Check out the Tawaki Project here - https://www.tawaki-project.org/

Support the project on Patreon if you can - https://www.patreon.com/TawakiProject

Follow Ursula on Twitter here - https://twitter.com/ulnberg

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When I was a youngster, I used to imagine being able to venture into the dense schlerophyll eucalyptus forests of eastern Australia with the chance to see the majestic, slightly terrifying but aptly named Powerful Owl.

This bird is the largest of the Australian owls, and has adapted to living in the suburbs and cities, as agriculture, forestry, bushfires and urban sprawl alter or eliminate the preferred habitat of this possum hunter.

Bronwyn Isaac has studied some of the Powerful Owls that have moved into the suburbs of Melbourne, and have become successfully established. Hear about her work, and learn a lot about the Powerful Owl.

Follow Bronwyn on Twitter - https://twitter.com/raptorecologist

You can find Bronwyn here on LinkedIn

Bronwyn also has cute pics of owls on her Facebook.

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Birdlife Australia always has a range of projects underway to learn more about our endangered birds, and to design the important programs to try to ensure the survival of the most at-risk species in Australia.

Dr. Holly Parsons, Manager of the Urban Birds program at Birdlife Australia talks to Grant about these projects. (There was too much for one episode - next one follows)

• Bird-friendly Gardens
• Orange-bellied Parrot surveys
• Act For Birds petitions
• Glossy Black-Cockatoos
• Gang-gang Cockatoos

The Bird Emergency website - www.thebirdemergency.com

Check out Birds In Backyards at Birdlife Australia

You can watch many of the past conversations, and see the upsoming interviews live at thebirdemergency.com/live

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Birdlife Australia always has a range of projects underway to learn more about our endangered birds, and to design the important programs to try to ensure the survival of the most at-risk species in Australia.

Dr. Holly Parsons, Manager of the Urban Birds program at Birdlife Australia talks to Grant about these projects. (There was too much for one episode - next one follows)

• Wings on King (King Island Bird surveys)
• Bitterns - Soundscapes
• Shorebirds
• Powerful Owls
• Gang-gang Cockatoos
• Birds In Schools
• Birds In Backyards
• Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos surveys

The Bird Emergency website - www.thebirdemergency.com

Check out Birds In Backyards at Birdlife Australia

You can watch many of the past conversations, and see the upsoming interviews live at thebirdemergency.com/live

Subscribe to on The Bird Emergency on YouTube

Follow The Bird Emergency on Twitter @birdemergency or Instagram @thebirdemergency

If you enjoy the show, how about share with your friends or colleagues? https://followthepodcast.com/birdemergency

Or you can review us at https://lovethepodcast.com/birdemergency

And if you want to support what Grant is doing with the show, why not buy him a coffee? (It's currently a flat soy with no sweeteners.) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/birdemergency

You may have always been familiar with turtle doves the same way I was - a childhood song that also references pear trees and partridges.... It may surprise you to know that turtle doves are becoming scarce in the UK.

I wanted to know more, so I spoke with Charlotte O'Neill, who is a student in Falmouth in the UK, a dab hand with a camera, and really interested in the wildlife around her... including turtle doves.

Hear about the demise, and some of the actions being undertaken to arrest it, and also what it is like in the Doc Martin part of the UK.

Follow Charlotte on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Lotty_ONeill

and https://linktr.ee/Lotty_ONeill

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Grant and Dr. Holly Parsons, Manager of the Urban Birds program at Birdlife Australia, are joined by Fiona Backhouse and Matthew Hall, who have both recently completed their fieldword, analysis and writing their PhD theses, on the Albert's Lyrebird and Brush Turkey, respectively.

This is the recording of the regular live stream, when Holly joins Grant at 1.00 pm every second Monday afternoon to discuss birds getting along with people.

More information is available on The Bird Emergency website, just click here to go to the shownotes for this bonus episode, and to get more details about Albert's Lyrebird, Brush Turkeys and our guests.

You can watch many of the past conversations, and see the upsoming interviews live at thebirdemergency.com/live

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If you enjoy the show, how about share with your friends or colleagues? https://followthepodcast.com/birdemergency

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And if you want to support what Grant is doing with the show, why not buy him a coffee? (It's currently a flat soy with no sweeteners.) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/birdemergency

Milly Formby is amazing! A zoologist, artist, author and now, an Adventurer!

Meet Milly and learn about the amazing Wing Threads project, which will see her fly a microlight aircraft around Australia, visiting schools and communities along the way, Sharing The Awesomeness of Shorebirds from 5000ft!

Hear Milly discuss the origin of the project, the plannings, the setbacks and why she loves the migratory shorebirds that journey from southern Australia to north Asia and beyond each year, and back.

The circumnavigation of Australia by air is representative of the distance these amazing birds fly twice each year!

Support the fundraising effort by Milly at thebirdemergency.com/supportmilly

Pre-order the book now!

You can watch many of the past conversations, and see the upsoming interviews live at thebirdemergency.com/live

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Follow The Bird Emergency on Twitter @birdemergency or Instagram @thebirdemergency

If you enjoy the show, how about share with your friends or colleagues? https://followthepodcast.com/birdemergency

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And if you want to support what Grant is doing with the show, why not buy him a coffee? (It's currently a flat soy with no sweeteners.) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/birdemergency

Dr. Holly Parsons, the Manager - Urban Birds programs at Birdlife Australia, joins Grant Williams regularly to talk about issues of interest to Bird Nerds, and to meet some of the fabulous people running the Citizen Science projects, or undertaking vital research. Here is part of the most recent live stream, focusing on the upcoming Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo surveys, where there are opportunities for anyone to be involved. Grant and Holly were joined by Skye McPherson, Project Coordinator South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project.

Here are some places to be involved or find some more information;

https://www.redtail.com.au

Get involved in the various surveys;

http://www.redtail.com.au/annual-counts.html

Here is the Facebook group that Skye mentioned;

https://birdsinbackyards.net

https://birdlife.org.au/projects/urban-birds

You can watch many of the past conversations, and see the upsoming interviews live at thebirdemergency.com/live

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In this episode we talk to Cat Davidson, one of the organisers of the Bruny Island Bird Festival, which is on from the 25th to the 27th of March 2022, and celebrates the birds that make the small island, off the eastern coast of Tasmania, their home.

Bruny Island is one the stronghold of the Forty-spotted Pardalote, a bird loved by this show, because of it's unique agricutural tendancies, it's relationship with the manna gum, and the passion of all of the people working for it's survival.

Cat has seen a lot of the world, but has made Tasmania, and Bruny Island home, and has a lot to share about the birds of the island, the seabirds and the strong relationship the community has with the birds and wildlife of Bruny Island.

Have a look at the very full Festival program here.

https://www.brunybirdfestival.org.au/

Here are the Festival socials;

Twitter - https://twitter.com/BirdBruny

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/brunybirdfestival/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BrunyBirdFestival/

Check out the fantastic photos by Chris Tzaros at his website here - https://www.birdsbushandbeyond.com.au/about-chris-tzaros

You can watch many of the past conversations, and see the upsoming interviews live at thebirdemergency.com/live

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Grant was joined by Dr. Holly Parsons, Manager of the Urban Birds program at Birdlife Australia, Dr. John Martin, Research Scientist at Taronga Conservation Society, at Taronga Zoon in Sydney and Dr. Jennifer Colbourne, who is researching cockatoo cognition at the Messerli Institute in Vienna.

The panel is interested in wildlife that lives in urban settings, how these animals, particularly cockatoos, ibis and brush turkeys are developing behaviours to help them thrive in an urban setting.

John has been involved in a series of studies examining how animals, especially cockatoos, adapt to city living. If you love cockatoos, you are going to enjoy this discussion.

Get the Big City Birds app here https://www.spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/info

There is more information about the Big City Birds project here;

https://taronga.org.au/conservation-and-science/current-research/big-city-birds

Check out Holly's Birdlife Australia Birds in Backyards program here https://www.birdsinbackyards.net/

Here is an article from Jennifer's lab about the use of tools by the Goffin's Cockatoo

https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/universitaet/infoservice/presseinformationen/presseinformationen-2017/kakadus-passen-auf-ihre-werkzeuge-auf

You can watch many of the past conversations, and see the upsoming interviews live at thebirdemergency.com/live

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And if you want to support what Grant is doing with the show, why not buy him a coffee? (It's currently a flat soy with no sweeteners.) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/birdemergency