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Australian Bird of the Year (2017)

December 2018

  • Stint reflection - Conditions were perfect, no wind, shallow water, reeds reflecting colour on the water. I lay in the shallow water and photographed the migratory waders as they fed around me. This Red-necked Stint has dipped its head into the mud

    Bird photo of the year 2018: the joy of the fairy-wren

    Joy in the Morning, a photo of a variegated fairy-wren taken in Yulara, Northern Territory, has won the people’s choice for the BirdLife Australia photography awards 2018. See the winner and all the finalists in the gallery below

April 2018

  • An Australian white ibis forages for food in a garbage bin in Mitchell St in the Sydney suburb of Arncliffe.

    Australian cities week
    Bin chickens: the grotesque glory of the urban ibis – in pictures

  • Corellas invade Australian suburb in their thousands – video

12 December 2017

  • An Australian magpie

    It's beloved, but Australia's magpie is an international bird of mystery

    Leo Joseph
    Our magpies are not the same as Europe’s, so why do they share a name? The bird of the year has a complicated back story

10 December 2017

  • Brendan Host, Lille Madden, Ashleigh Page, Mark Domenici, Leanne Golebiowski and Michael Shiels select their favourites

    2:03

    Bird keepers at Sydney's Taronga zoo name their favourite Australian birds – video

  • Emu

    Conspiracy theories and celebrity endorsements: how bird of the year played out online

  • A magpie

    Magpie edges out white ibis and kookaburra as Australian bird of the year

  • First Dog on the Moon

    Scenes from the Australian bird of the year ceremony

    First Dog on the Moon

  • Magpie wins Australian bird of the year poll – as it happened

  • Magpies: how I learnt to grudgingly admire – and then love – the bird of the year

    Paul Daley

  • The mighty ibis did not win Australian bird of the year but it's still a winner

    John Martin

  • Australian bird of the year 2017: the top 10 – video

8 December 2017

  • We love birds more than we think we do – video

    Michael Shiels, supervisor of the bird department at Taronga zoo says birds are an integral part of Australian life. 

    Shiels is unable to give a single answer to Guardian Australia's bird of the year poll, but believes all Australians love birds, even if they don't know it. The poll closes today at midnight

  • Pink cockatoo

    Feed the birds: stop the demonising and tell us how to do it properly

    It’s maligned in Australia but if some simple rules are observed, bird feeding is a great way to connect with the wild world
  • Superb Fairywren or Blue Wren (Malurus cyaneus) returns to Kellyville NSW, Australia.

    Community
    Share your best Australian bird pictures for bird of the year 2017

    We’d like to see your best – or indeed most underwhelming – bird images of the year, whether or not the subject features on our shortlist

7 December 2017

  • Detail of a gown from Romance Was Born’s Bush Magic collection

    Feathers and flight: birds in Australian fashion

    From Florence Broadhurst to Romance Was Born, Australian designers have long looked to birds for design inspiration
  • A brush turkey

    The brush turkey is an Aussie battler – and it needs your help

    Alicia Burns
    Brush turkeys are often the last holdouts against gentrification. But they still face peril in urban environments and researchers are enlisting citizen scientists to understand how they can better survive

  • 'Are you kidding me?' Actors denounce the ibis in Australian bird of the year poll – video

    There’s not a lot of love for the ibis on the red carpet of the 2017 Aacta awards

November 2017

  • magpie bird

    Land of the birds: why Australia has the world's greatest diversity of avian life

  • Donald Trump and an Australian white ibis

    Why first-past-the-post voting favours the ibis (and Donald Trump)

About 29 results for Australian Bird of the Year (2017)
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